Festival Year: 2020

Kerry B. Danner-McDonald

Roles: Special Guest

Kerry Danner earned her doctorate after years of working with nonprofits to improve women’s well being and nonprofits to empower marginalized and poor students in Washington DC. Dr. Danner specializes in Christian virtue ethics, Catholic social thought, liberation theologies, the religious imagination and critical university studies and is passionate about bringing these subjects in conversation with the realities of climate change. She joined Georgetown’s faculty in 2011 and currently serves on the American Academy of Religion’s Board of Directors.

She has a particular interest in community-based learning, social justice and Ignatian pedagogy, prioritizing the importance of reflection on our context and experience to deepen our understanding. Dr. Danner is committed to teaching in the spirit of humanism, ensuring her theology classes a place where students of no or any religious affiliation are welcome.
Dr. Danner resides in Takoma Park with her spouse Jay and children Karis and Devin. They also foster one to two children at any given time. She enjoys dancing though often has to do so while folding laundry.

 

Festival Year: 2020