Today on the podcast we sit down with new NPM Executive Director Jennifer Kluge. Jennifer has been the Executive Director since early January of this year, coming to the job from her previous position as the Chief of Staff for the Office of the Dean of Research at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Today Jennifer was kind enough to sit down and discuss the vision she has for the association. She was also willing to participate in a Q&A session so we, as members, can get to know her a little more.
After I finish speaking with Jennifer, I have the privilege of announcing two upcoming events free for NPM members, including one NPM event free for all, regardless of your NPM membership status.
But first, my time with Jennifer. Jennifer joins us from her home in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Bio: Jennifer Kluge
Jennifer Kluge, NPM’s Executive Director, lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. She brings over twenty years of management experience in higher education and nonprofits.
Most recently, Jennifer served as the Chief of Staff, Office of the Dean of Research at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she managed the administrative functions of the office, worked with the Dean to develop strategies for increasing investigator resources at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), and coordinated communications, development activities, strategic planning, and relationships with internal and external constituents.
Jennifer has her BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington DC, an MS in Management from Emmanuel College in Boston, MA, and is completing her thesis for a Doctorate in Liberal Studies at Georgetown. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of the Restored Order of Initiation.
In her ‘free time’ Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family, gardening and singing in the choir at St. Bartholomew’s Parish in Bethesda, MD.
Jennifer officially began her position at NPM on January 11, 2021 and she can be reached at director@npm.org.
Lent in the Southern Hemisphere:
February 15, 2021- 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
The world has been turned upside down this past year and our inner worlds have been shaken to the core with Covid 19, heightened signs of climate change and civil unrest. In all this upheaval is there a way to do Lent differently this year?
You are invited to prepare for Lent by seeing our Easter preparation through a new lens – Through the Southern Hemisphere Seasons. We will contemplate the pairing down and slowing of nature, the cooling temperatures and the nurturing of the seeds of the future.
Find out what your key intention for Lent is this year and then in reverse how that translates in the practices of prayer, fasting and giving. What will you allow to die and what is germinating inside to bring new life?
Join us to invite the Holy Spirit to ‘draw out’ the best in us and who we want to become. We will share new music and video reflection, Scripture, prayer and journaling.
Presented by Annie Higgins Singer/Songwriter (former Diocesan Youth Ministry Coordinator and composer with Simply Liturgical Music), join us on February 15, 2021 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.
Registration is free to all NPM members. For more information and how to register, visit the “Events” area of NPM’s new homepage at npm.org.
New Traditions of Chant:
Sunday, February 21, 2021- 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Over and over, Gregorian chant has been upheld as the epitome of sacred music in the Roman Catholic Church. That body of chant was originally produced when Roman singers met Germanic tribes in the early Middle Ages. A similar movement has been underway in West Africa in the past 50 years between French missionary monks and indigenous Africans. Join us for this conversation and instrument show-and-tell, which will explore how chant was adapted to the musical traditions of West Africa, and what direction it is headed in next.
Presented by Brothers Justin and Cajetan on Liturgy and Music at the Abbey of the Ascension (Dzogbégan, Togo).
For more information and how to register, visit the “Events” area of NPM’s new homepage at npm.org.
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