Laura Goble Named Director of Gannon University's Center for Social Concerns
Posted: September 6, 2013Erie, PA; Gannon University's Office of Mission and Ministry
announced the appointment of Laura N. Goble as director of the
Office's Center for Social Concerns. She succeeds Arlene
Montevecchio, who will begin work on her Ph.D. in theology at
Duquesne University this fall.
In this position Goble will oversee the University's
co-curricular community service programming, education for Catholic
Social Teaching, peace and justice, and civic engagement for social
change - including a special emphasis on the Alternative Break
Service Trip (international and domestic) program.
Goble comes to Gannon following a five-year tenure at the
University of Portland (Ore.) as the director of the Moreau Center
for Service and Leadership. She was named to that position
following a year at the Moreau Center as an AmeriCorps*VISTA
volunteer. Prior to coming to the University of Portland, Goble
served as a graduate resident advisor at Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Ill., where she received her Master of Arts degree in intercultural
studies.
While at Portland, she gained significant experience in bringing
Catholic Social Teaching into the learning experience of college
students. She has worked to create various alternative break
service trips and immersion opportunities--including two that
focused on communities of indigenous people in Hawaii and Alaska--
and international internships for students. A native of Hamburg,
N.Y., Goble also served as a teacher at The King's School in
Bujumbura, Burundi, Africa, caring for orphans affected by HIV/AIDS
and genocide.