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Siena Center Presents Donna Markham

Dominican University’s Siena Center will present Donna Markham, OP, in a lecture titled “Leading in Hope: Creating Connections in a Postmodern Climate” on Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the university’s Priory Campus, 7200 West Division Street, River Forest.

Markham, who has been a member of the Adrian Dominican Congregation since 1968, is now the prioress general. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. She is the former president and CEO of The Southdown Institute, a multidisciplinary mental healthcare facility in Canada that treats church professionals.

She devotes much of her energy toward the promotion of organizational transformation and effective leadership for a renewed church and a sustainable world order. She is the author of Spiritlinking Leadership: Working Through Resistance to Organizational Change. Markham has also authored several articles concerning the relationship between culture and spirit-driven leadership. She lectures widely on issues pertaining to postmodern culture and spirituality.

Admission is $10. For more information call (708) 714-9105 or visit the Siena Center’s website at www.siena.dom.edu.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century laywoman who worked untiringly for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.