Mark Bradford

Executive director, Regina Academies

Mark Bradford, who lives in Pennsylvania, is the executive director of the Regina Academies, a network of Philadelphia-area schools offering Catholic classical education for students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Bradford worked for ten years at St Charles Borromeo Seminary and then served as headmaster of a parent-founded, Catholic K-12 classical academy in western Pennsylvania.

John J DeGioia

President Georgetown University

John J DeGioia, 65, is an academic administrator, philosopher and member of the Order of Malta. He has been the first lay president of Georgetown University in Washington DC since his appointment in 2001. He was also the first lay president of any Jesuit university in America. He is currently Georgetown’s longest-serving president. In 1994, he married his wife Theresa at Holy Trinity Church in a ceremony presided over by DeGioia’s uncle, John Begley, a Jesuit priest. Though he may not identify as a public Catholic leader, DeGioia is a Catholic running an important liberal-leaning Catholic university.