Alicia has most recently served as the Development Director for WISE (Women’s Information Service), the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire’s domestic and sexual violence Program Center. She has spent most of her 30 year career in fundraising–from working on Dartmouth College’s 1.27 billion Capital Campaign to managing The Green Mountain Horse Association’s $2.5 million Campaign. Connors began her career at Harvard Business School and has also worked on the Capital Campaigns for Radcliffe College and Lehigh University. She has consulted for a number of organizations including Zamorano University, Honduras; The Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia); Haverford College, Haverford, PA and a number of local non-profits. She has been an ambassador for the Human Capital Foundation’s Selamta Project and spent five weeks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia working as a volunteer with orphans and women to provide safe and permanent homes. She is also a certified crisis line advocate at WISE, a volunteer for Good Beginnings, a member of the Kiwanis Club and has been an advocacy volunteer for CARE and Save the Children. Alicia has her B.A. from Boston College and a M.A.L.S. degree from Dartmouth College with a focus in Cultural Studies. She is currently attending the Upper Valley’s Leadership Institute. Alicia hails from Hartland Vermont and has two amazing college children Gabrielle and Andres, a wonderful fiancé, Bob Clemente and an English setter named Savannah. Alicia will join the Irish Pastoral Centre in Quincy, MA as the Executive Director as of April 4, 2011.

Sr. Marguerite is from Co. Galway Ireland and is a Missionary Franciscan Sister. Sister Marguerite worked in the United States as a teacher, before embarking on missionary work in Bolivia and Peru. Sr. Marguerite has a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. She also completed the Clinical Pastoral Education Program at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, MA. On returning to the U.S. Sr. Marguerite worked with Hispanic immigrants in Lawrence, MA. She became executive director of the Irish Pastoral Centre in January 2004.

Fr. John hails from Co. Limerick and was appointed Chaplain in October 2005. He was ordained in his home parish of Dromcollogher in 1995 and worked in Limerick City for nine years prior to joining the Irish Pastoral Centre. In Limerick Fr. John was actively involved in setting up two youth clubs in his parish, as well as being involved with the senior citizen program. He is also a masters student at Boston College.

Cora Flood joined the Irish Pastoral Centre team in July 2006 to lead the new Irish Senior Citizen Outreach Program. Cora comes from Co. Kilkenny and has lived in the Boston area since 1994. Prior to coming on board at IPC Cora had worked as Director of Training for the Walsh Visa Program and Coordinator of the Cross Cultural Program at the Irish Immigration Center. She also spent one year as Consultant to the Statewide Citizenship Assistance Program administered through the Office for Refugees and Immigrants.

From Co. Kerry, Kieran graduated from Holy Cross College and also holds degrees from Newbury College and the University of Massachusetts. He has worked on immigration issues since 1996 and in 2000 became the first Irish person to represent immigrants before the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.