Meet Tim Vining, the TMC's new Executive Director...
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Tim Vining, the Merton Center's new Executive Director, is a former
practicing labor attorney, one-time professed religious brother of the
Franciscans, teacher at both the high school and college levels, and a
committed activist for social justice.
A member of TMC for two years, Tim has worked as a volunteer at the
center, preparing grant applications and organizing events such as the
Rock Against Racism. His appointment as Executive Director was
approved by the TMC Board of Directors on Monday, August 27.
"My greatest passion," Tim says, "has been to stir up the fire already
in the bellies of those with a desire to work for justice." He has pursued
this passion in a rich variety of ways.
In his native Louisiana, Tim was a labor attorney, having been admitted to
the bar in 1995. At the same time, he was Executive Director of the
Louisiana Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, organizing statewide events
and legislative campaigns.
He was also a co-founder of the Baton Rouge Catholic Worker, living in
community with the homeless in the organization's Solidarity House. As if
that wasn't enough, he taught a morality and social justice course at an
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Earlier, Tim chaired the religion department at Central Catholic High School
in Morgan City, La, and spent a year as an instructor at St. Francis College in
Lorette, Pa., teaching courses in philosophical and religous studies.
For six years, from 1985 to 1991, he was a professed religious brother of the
Franciscans.
In addition to his law degree, Tim holds a BA degree in philosophy from
Louisiana State University and a Master of Divinity from Regis College in
Toronto.
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