Connecting benefactors with concrete ways to impact the people and causes they care about is
a privilege and joy. At CatholicIU these opportunities abound!

Having served numerous nonprofits as a consultant or employee while raising four children,
Colleen has twenty-five years’ experience in relationship-based fund development and capital
campaigns. Her heart is in the mission and ministry of the Catholic Church.

She holds a Master of Arts in Philanthropy and Development from Saint Mary’s University in
Minnesota and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs-Economic Relations from
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Colleen loves to sit down with people and explore new places, whether that’s on volunteer
mission trips or in the offices and living rooms of those seeking to make an impact far beyond
their immediate surroundings or even their lifetime.

She is just as likely to be planning a trip to a new restaurant or country as she is to be asking
you for a gift to strengthen the Church by providing online access to Catholic higher education
for those in the trenches in parishes, schools, hospitals, businesses and families throughout the
world.

She resides in northern Virginia with her husband and family.