What does climate migration look like? How is it challenging our global governance, our University, those directly impacted, and all people of Mercy? Join us for this compelling Earth Week Keynote Lecture with Dr. Maryanne Loughry, a Sister of Mercy and leading advocate for refugees worldwide.

More about Dr. Maryanne Loughry

Dr. Maryanne Loughry is a Sister of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG) who works with and for refugees worldwide. At Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, she served from 1996-2004 as the Pedro Arrupe Tutor and currently is a visiting researcher concerned with the psychosocial effects of refugee displacement, with special attention to climate-induced displacement in the Pacific. In Sydney, Australia, she serves as Associate Director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Australia. Sr. Loughry has worked in detention centers and refugee camps and conducted program evaluations and humanitarian training in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, the UK, and most recently in the United States with Afghan refugees. In 2010 she was made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in recognition of her service to refugees. Dr. Loughry serves on the Governing Committee of the International Catholic Migration Committee (ICMC) and is on the advisory committees of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne. Her Ph.D is from Flinders University of South Australia. 

Dr. Loughry presently serves as a member of Boston College's working group on Climate Change and Migration in the Program on Global Ethics and Social Trust and teaches in the School of Social Work while serving as a senior advisor to the Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Boston College.