Director: Carolyne Call was born in Ithaca, New York and grew up there, attending Cornell University and graduating with her BS in Rural Sociology in 1986. During the summer prior to her senior year she experienced a call to the ministry while working on her extended family’s farm in western New York State. During 1986-87 she served as a seminary intern at the Ladue Chapel Presbyterian church in Saint Louis, MO. In the fall of 1987 she returned to New York and enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School for the next three years. She graduated in 1990 with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) with a concentration in Systematic Theology. After graduation from CRDS she began a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1994 she left Princeton to go into parish ministry, serving a historic protestant church on the New Jersey shore for five years. She was ordained by the United Church of Christ in November of 1994. In 1997 she returned to Ithaca to pursue a MS in Development Sociology at Cornell (’00) and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (’04). In 2002 she moved west to join her new husband (Randall Zachman, faculty at Notre Dame) in South Bend and began teaching for Saint Mary’s in the Psychology department that fall. The following year she was awarded a CWIL Fellowship in Psychology and taught for the 2003-2004 year in that department. Now the Director of the Office for Civic and Social Engagement, Carolyne still teaches in psychology, focusing on the Introduction to Psychology and Social Psychology.
Assistant Director:Olivia Barzydlo Critchlow (’05) is the Assistant Director of the Office for Civic and Social Engagement and Director of the College Academy of Tutoring (CAT) Program at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She co-created the CAT Program in 2006 after a full-time term of service with AmeriCorps coordinating the Indiana Reading Corps program at Saint Mary’s College. Since the CAT Program’s inception, she has successfully recruited and retained a solid volunteer base of 10% of the student body and has maintained partnerships with four local Title 1 schools. The CAT Program has become one of the most popular programs at Saint Mary’s College. She is a 2005 graduate of Saint Mary’s college and is pursuing a Master of Public Affairs.