OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Margaret QuinlanMaggie Quinlan is a parishioner of St. Olaf Parish in Williamsburg, Virginia. Maggie met and worked with Sr. Anne Marie Gardiner at the several fair trade events held at her former parish of St. Rose of Lima, Gaithersburg, Maryland. She traveled to El Salvador in March 2004 with Anne Marie to meet the Salvadoran women personally and hear their stories. Maggie is retired and involved in planning fun activities for her neighbors and friends and in outreach activities at her parish. She is a mother of four and grandmother of 10 and is looking forward to future trips to El Salvador to bring hope to the women of El Salvador. She serves as Chairperson of the SEW Board.

Mary L. LeachMary Leach is Senior Advisor to the President of the University of Maryland. Baltimore, the State of Maryland's Academic, Health and Law campus. She oversees all operations of the President's office: planning, budgeting, coordination of the schools of law, medicine, nursing, social work and with the Chancellor's Office and the Regents. She is married to Dr. Ronald Leach, Professor at the College of Engineering at Howard University. They have three adult children and one grandchild. She serves as Treasurer of the SEW Board.

Marie Chiodo, DWMarie Chiodo works as a consultant to nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad. She also serves as a member of the Dominican Leadership Conference NGO at the United nations, focusing on women's and ecological issues. She has a Masters in Theological Studies and a Masters in Organizational Development. She has served in leadership in her congregation, the Daughters of Wisdom. Marie has been to El Salvador and works with Anne Marie Gardiner in promoting and marketing Salvadoran crafts. She serves as Secretary of the SEW Board.

Patrice FlynnPatrice Flynn is an economist who integrates economic concepts into such fields as global finance, sustainability, national security, peace building, philanthropy, and civil society. As President of Flynn Research in Harpers Ferry, WV, Patrice works with nonprofit organizations to empirically measure their roles, functions and contributions to society. Patrice also teaches at Johns Hopkins University in the graduate Center for Civil Society Studies and plays music professionally.

Fr. Joseph Nangle, OFMFather Joe Nangle currently serves as co-director of Franciscan Mission Service. He has a long history of service to the poor in Boston, New York and 15 years of service in Bolivia and Peru. He brought his knowledge of the Latin American Church reality to his work as analyst at the United States Mission Association and at the International Justice and Peace Office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also served for eight years as Justice and Peace staff for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

His most recent book, Birth of a Church, describes his experiences with the poor in South America and the relationship of their poverty to economic and political decisions made in the United States. He is currently Pastor of a Latino Church community in Northern Virginia.

Patti Ann Rogucki, SFCCSister Patti Ann Rogucki is a member of the Sisters for Christian Community. She has a masters in Theology and Pastoral Counseling with an advanced certificate of study in Psychology.  Her ministries have included work with the homeless at Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker, co-founding At Jacob's Well, Inc., which provides housing for the homeless who suffer mental illness, and a job program for the developmentally disabled. As a member of Corpus Christi parish in Baltimore, Maryland, she assists with a sister parish in Guatemala. For the past16 summers she has done pastoral work in El Salvador which includes drawing clowns with the young and old. Her present occupation is teaching sick and expelled students in the Baltimore City School System and helping with Salvadoran Craft sales.

 Howarth, TomTom is the Director of the Father McKenna Center at Saint Aloysius Church in Washington, DC. He has been a frequent visitor to El Salvador since 1991. Tom served in government and politics in Washington since the mid-1970's and served as a legislative aide to Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and as vice-president of Peyser Associates, a government relations firm where he represented cities, transit systems and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Tom served as director of community relations for Jubilee Housing from 2002-2005. Tom holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and the LBJ School at the University of Texas.

Claudia RodriguezClaudia is from Cojutepeque, El Salvador. She came to the US in 1996 on a Fulbright Scholarship to study Economics at Montana State University. After her graduation she moved back to El Salvador where she worked for four years in the Research and Regulations Unit of the Superintendency of Pensions, the governmental institution that supervises the social security system in El Salvador. After marrying her husband Geoffrey who she met in Montana, they moved to Takoma Park, Maryland where both are active in the community.

Claudia has worked as a liaison to the Latino community for Maryland Representative Ana Sol Gutiérrez, and at CASA of Maryland helping Latino and African immigrants develop financial skills. Claudia recently got her Master's degree in International Development from American University where her research topic was the impact of remittances on economic development. Claudia is active in the Latino community in Washington D.C. She enjoys reading, growing vegetables in a community garden and spending time with her family and friends.

Anne Marie Gardiner, SSNDSister Anne Marie Gardiner is a woman who believes the empowerment of women will change the world into communities of justice, peace, mutual respect and care of all generations. In earlier ministries, Anne Marie received a Masters in Religious Education and a Masters in Social Work. In 2003, with funding and support from her Baltimore Province of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, she began Salvadoran Enterprises for Women (SEW). SEW is now an independent nonprofit organization. Together with the Board, Anne Marie works for the economic and social development of Salvadoran women by funding employment opportunities. She is Executive Director of SEW.