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Leadership Team Bios

Dr. John Borelli
Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives,
Office of the President

John Borelli is Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives at Georgetown University. For 16 years, he was Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, serving as Interim Director from 2001-2002. He staffed the Bishops' Subcommittee on Interreligious Dialogue managing three ongoing regional dialogues with Muslims, one with Buddhists, one with Hindus, and other interreligious projects. He also served on the national ecumenical dialogues with Orthodox Christians and with Anglicans and facilitated other ecumenical activities.

A consultor to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 1990, Dr. Borelli is now the U. S. (Jesuit) Assistancy Coordinator for Mission and Interreligious Dialogue. A participant in several dialogues, organizations and institutions promoting ecumenical and interreligious relations, including Religions for Peace-USA, he was President of National Ecumenical Officers Association for three years. He taught full-time at Fordham University (Ph.D., 1976, history of religions and theology) during his final year of graduate studies and for 11 years at the College of Mount St. Vincent (New York City). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Philosophy from St. Louis University in 1968. He has published over 160 articles in the past 30 years. He was a contributing editor to The New Catholic Encyclopedia (2002 edition) and edited Handbook for Interreligious Dialogue (Silver Burdett & Ginn, 1990). He co-edited The Quest for Unity: Orthodox and Catholics in Dialogue (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press/USCC, 1996). He and his wife Marianne, an adult primary care nurse practitioner with a Ph.D. in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, have three children.

Fr. Brian Conley, S.J.
Director,
Mission and Pastoral Care

Fr. Brian Conley, S.J. was born on September 11, 1962, the second of five children. Brian attended the Dedham Public Schools and graduated from Dedham High in 1980. He attended Suffolk University where he studied Computer Information Systems and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Brian worked for the next eight years as a computer programmer for the Town of Needham, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, and Codman and Shurtleff, a Johnson & Johnson Company. In addition, Brian earned a Master's in Business Administration from Boston College in May 1992.

Brian entered the Society of Jesus on August 30, 1992. He has worked primarily in pastoral ministries including work as a hospital chaplain and a prison chaplain. In addition, Brian has worked with young people teaching CCD and coaching basketball. During his formation, Brian earned a Master in Arts in Philosophical Resources from Fordham University and a Master in Divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Brian is currently Director of Mission and Pastoral Care at Georgetown University Hospital while pursuing a certification as a Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor.

Fr. Timothy Godfrey, S.J.
Director,
Office of Campus Ministry

Fr. Tim Godfrey, S.J. joined the Campus Ministry staff in July 2004 as Director of Campus Ministry. Fr. Godfrey most recently served as pastor of St. Patrick Church in Oakland, California where he also mentored Jesuit and lay graduate theological students in pastoral ministry. He has also worked in East St. Louis, Illinois as a public health nurse; and has served as associate pastor of St. Francis Xavier (College) Church in St. Louis, Missouri and St. Ignatius Church in Portland, Oregon.

Fr. Godfrey holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley; a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis; and a Bachelor of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Louis University. Fr. Godfrey was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and entered the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus in 1973.

Dr. Anthony Moore
Special Assistant to the President,
Office of the President

Tony Moore is Special Assistant to the President, staffing the Office of the President on Catholic and Jesuit issues and serving as liaison with the Office for Mission and Ministry. He also oversees a variety of special projects related to the Catholic and Jesuit identity of the University. He is currently working on a video oral history of the renewal of Ignatian spirituality after Vatican II. Together with Fr. Boroughs and Fr. McDermott, he has presented a series of seminars on the Jesuit Tradition and Higher Education to Board members and senior University leaders.

Tony has been at Georgetown for 25 years, beginning as a philosophy professor and serving 13 years as an Associate Dean in the School for Summer and Continuing Education. In that latter capacity, he developed and directed the Certificate Program in Theological Studies, giving retreats, spiritual direction and teaching a course each semester integrating Ignatian spirituality with contemporary psychology. He is also the author of Father, Son, and Healing Ghosts (2001), a personal account of his journey, with the help of Ignatius Loyola and Carl Jung, to connect to his father who was killed in World War II. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from Fordham University and an M. Div. from the Weston School of Theology.

Tony was a Jesuit for 16 years and remains deeply committed to the work of the Society of Jesus. He is on the Steering Committee of the Colleagues of the Maryland Province (COMP), an association of lay people working in various institutions of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. He also served on the planning committee and was a presenter for the Province Retreat for Jesuits and Lay Colleagues. His primary focus is the formation of lay people in the Ignatian tradition, particularly the Spiritual Exercises.

Ms. Janet O'Brien
Consultant for Jesuit Mission,
Office of Mission and Ministry

Jan O'Brien returns to Georgetown this fall as Consultant for Jesuit Mission, from Gonzaga University in Washington State, where she was Director of Ignatian Programs. Jan will join the Mission and Ministry Advisory Board, and serve as a spiritual director on the new 19th Annotation Retreat for faculty and administrators, as well as develop new mission programs with Fr. Phil Boroughs, S.J. An alumna of Georgetown, Jan completed the Theological Studies Certificate program and received her Georgetown MALS in Religious Studies. She served as Chaplain to the Lombardi Cancer Clinic and with Fr. Bill Watson, S.J. created the Georgetown Weekend Ignatian Retreat and directed the Five Day Ignatian Retreat. Jan is Chaplain/Spiritual Director for the MAGIS Institute in California, which gives Ignatian Retreats to corporate executives, their spouses and employees.

Prior to coming to Georgetown in 1990, Jan was Director of Community Development for the City of Syracuse, N.Y. and Vice-Chairman of the Syracuse Housing Authority and served on various Boards in N.Y. State concerned with housing/employment opportunities and civil rights. Her BA degree in Government, is from Cornell University. After her marriage to Hon. David V. O'Brien, U.S. District Judge for the Virgin Islands, she developed historic properties and owned a movie theater on St. Croix. Jan is the mother/step-mother of seven children and nine grandchildren.

Mr. Michael Peterson
Coordinator for Catholic and Jesuit Initiatives
Office of the President

Michael Peterson originally hails from Blackfoot, Idaho. After high school, he moved to South Carolina and majored in biological sciences at Southern Wesleyan University, graduating in 2001. After college, he studied philosophy for two years at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore while he was a Catholic seminarian. He came to Georgetown in January of 2004 and currently works as the Coordinator for Catholic and Jesuit Initiatives for the Office of the President.

Michael enjoys reading (especially history and theology), engaging in stimulating intellectual exchanges, singing, working out and running, and being with friends.

Ms. Mary Prahinski (Interim)
Director of Development,
Office of Advancement