How One Woman Encourages Women to Find Healing: GIVEN Alumna Silvia Ordoñez “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.” -- Mark 5:34 According to a 2024 Gallup report, more than 6 in 10 women find it difficult to prioritize their health in the United [...]
How One Woman Inspires Liturgical Living: GIVEN Alumna Tasha Gordon “Be who God made you to be, and you will set the world on fire.” -- Saint Catherine of Siena Living liturgically is an aspect of the faith that is very special to GIVEN alumna, Tasha Gordon. By observing the Church’s liturgical [...]
How One Woman Is Helping Trauma Survivors Find Healing: GIVEN Alumna Abby Albrinck The Church is often looked to as a place of healing for spiritual and emotional wounds and this responsibility comes from Christ Himself. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “‘Heal the sick!’ The Church has received this charge from [...]
9 Years Later, GIVEN Mentor and Mentee Team up to Lead 100 Women: GIVEN Alumna Sam Kelley Sr. Mary Louise, OCD remembers sitting in the grass of the Catholic University of America lawn during the first GIVEN women’s forum in 2016, as her small group participant Samantha Kelley, described the new call to start a [...]
How One Woman Is Promoting Cultural Renewal by Preventing Euthanasia and Encouraging Hope: GIVEN Alumna Amanda Achtman “In this way the undestroyed dignity and majesty of woman are expressed. She preserves the mystery of life, the power opposed to death.” – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief As [...]
Location: Fargo, ND Job Title: Director of Mission Outreach Organization: Down Home Education: University of Mary Degree: Business Administration, BS, MBA Emily Kaiser, GIVEN '21 Please share a little about yourself - feel free to include a fun fact! I grew up in Moorhead, MN and graduated from the University of Mary with both my Bachelors [...]
Location: Tulsa, OK Job Title: Artist & Business Owner Organization: Tara Wright Studio Education: University of Oklahoma Degree: Bachelor of Journalism, Advertising Tara Wright, GIVEN '16 Please share a little about yourself - feel free to include a fun fact! Hi! I'm Tara. I'm an artist, illustrator, small business owner, and award-winning writer and creator. More [...]
Location: New York, NY Job Title: Director of Formation Organization: Seton Teaching Fellows Education: University of Maryland-College Park Degree: Chemical Engineering Emilia Tanu Chornay, GIVEN '19 Please share a little about yourself - feel free to include a fun fact! I am a wife and mother of two young children, living and working in NYC. I [...]
Location: Laurel, MD Job Title: Happiness Engineer Organization: Flocknote Education: University of Maryland Degree: Communications Victoria Smith, GIVEN '21 Please share a little about yourself - feel free to include a fun fact! Hi friends, I’m 31 years old and live in the DC area (kind of between Baltimore and DC to be honest). I [...]
Location: New York, New York Job Title: co-founder & executive director Organization: Arthouse2B Erin McAtee, GIVEN '19 Please share a little about yourself - feel free to include a fun fact! My name is Erin McAtee, I am a visual artist and co-founder & executive director of Arthouse2B, a multidisciplinary Catholic arts collective and nonprofit based in [...]
