Course Facilitator Details

Laurel Grassin-Drake

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Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States

Hello from Columbus OH and Newburyport MA, Confusing? Well I'm a Professor of International Business as Ohio State University, but my husband has a small business in MA, so I spend all my school breaks (including the summer) there. I am glad to be part of the VLCFF community; I truly believe in life-long learning. My original career was spent as an institutional investor and portfolio manager in New York and London. But in addition to a masters degree in religion from Columbia University, I have taken graduate courses in Pastoral Theology at Heythrop College (a Jesuit college with lots of Rahner!) in London, and taught theology for many years at a Jesuit High School in Maine. I'm particularly close to the Jesuits as I went through RCIA at a Jesuit church in NYC. Today I'm part of a lovely parish, St Francis of Assisi, in Columbus. It's a small, welcoming church where everyone sings! I'm involved in RCIA and help with some catechesis, as well as serving as lector.