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Sheila Cavanaugh '81, senior vice president for internal communications at Fidelity Investments in Boston, delivered the annual Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life on Feb. 8 in Rehm Library. Cavanaugh leads a team of professionals dedicated to keeping Fidelity's 37,000 employees knowledgeable, informed and educated. Previously, she worked as a global strategies consultant with Coopers & Lybrand and spent more than a decade as a banker in New York, Japan, Switzerland and the former Soviet Union. In the late 1980s, Cavanaugh took a sabbatical year from banking to teach English with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at a Vietnamese Refugee Camp in Southeast Asia. Returning to pursue a graduate degree in business at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., she spent two years at Harvard Business School, Boston, publishing research for use in graduate programs. From there, she became a Soros Foundation fellow and moved to the Baltic States to start one of the first credit training programs after the fall of communism.
An economics major at Holy Cross, she worked her way through college in factories in Worcester and suffered a stroke at the beginning of her career. She and her husband, Albert—whom she met in Indonesia—are the parents of three children from South Korea. Cavanaugh also volunteers at the International Institute of Boston, a refugee resettlement agency.
The Thomas More Lecture honors a graduate of Holy Cross who exemplifies the College's dedication to the integration of faith and learning. It is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
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