Join us for the Ignatian Peacemaking Lecture, which will serve as the opening keynote of Marquette University's 2023 Mission Week celebration.
We are excited to have Molly Burhans, founder and executive director of GoodLands, present on how her engagement with Ignatian discernment led her to explore the intersections of environmentalism and data science, which then led to her becoming a leading Catholic environmentalist, social entrepreneur, and cartographer.
Please also join us for a small reception with cookies and hot chocolate after the presentation.
This event is sponsored by the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking and Office of Mission & Ministry.
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Molly Burhans is an award-winning Catholic environmentalist, cartographer, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and executive director of GoodLands, an organization whose mission is to mobilize the Catholic Church to use its land holdings for environmental and humanitarian good.
Burhans was the chief cartographer for the first unified global map of the Catholic Church, which premiered at the Vatican in 2016. She is one of Encyclopedia Britannica’s 2022 “20 Under 40,” a winner of the Sierra Club’s EarthCare Award, a United Nations Young Champion of the Earth, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and an Ashoka Fellow.
Burhans is an amplifying voice for the role of faith-based institutions in regenerative land-use and management around the world. Her work has been covered extensively in media, including the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, Forbes, Wired (Italy), Curbed, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. She has participated in the Vatican Youth Symposium, the Vatican Arts and Technology Council, and the United Nations Youth Assembly and has been an invited speaker at Harvard, Yale, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and TEDxBoston.
Burhans has a Master’s Degree in Ecological Design from the Conway School, where she was a Sustainable Communities Initiative Fellow. She is also Jesuit educated; she has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Canisius College.
