FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Catholic Charities USA President and CEO Kerry Robinson will speak at the annual Servus Omnium Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the University of Saint Francis.
Robinson’s lecture, “People of Hope: Living a Life of Service and Purpose,” will be presented by Catholic Charities, the University of Saint Francis, Catholic Community Foundation of Northeast Indiana and St. Joseph Community Health Foundation. The Servus Omnium Lecture Series combines business and philosophical precepts for a message of service on topics of current interest.
Breakfast, followed by Robinson’s lecture, will begin at 7 a.m. in the Saint Francis North Campus Gymnasium, 2702 Spring Street. Doors open at 6:30 a.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door and $200 for a table. Registration is available at go.sf.edu/servus-omnium.
Robinson was the founding executive director of Leadership Roundtable and now serves as a member of its board of trustees. A member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), Robinson has been an advisor to—and trustee of—more than 25 grant-making foundations, charitable nonprofits and family philanthropies. Robinson served as the executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation, which is responsible for an annual international million-dollar prize honoring people of faith whose lives are dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering.
Robinson served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University and led a successful $75 million fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel’s intellectual and spiritual ministry and to construct a Catholic student center, designed by Cesar Pelli, on Yale’s campus.
Robinson is the author of the prize-winning book, “Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy, and a Spiritual Call to Service.” She is the recipient of 10 honorary doctorates as well as the recipient of the 2025 Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband—Michael Cappello, M.D., chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health—have two children, Christopher and Sophie.
For more information or to interview Kerry Robinson prior to her appearance, contact Saint Francis Communications Director Reggie Hayes at 260-399-7700, ext. 6413 or rhayes@sf.edu.
Founded in 1890 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition, the University of Saint Francis offers more than 60 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs through the College of Health Sciences and the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business. In addition to its traditional programs, Saint Francis designs focused curricula for working adults in Fort Wayne, Crown Point, Lafayette and online. USF Downtown houses the music technology program while offering enhanced internship and networking opportunities for students. The University of Saint Francis, recognized as an NAIA Five-Star Champion of Character institution, has 21 athletic programs boasting three individual and four team NAIA national championships. More than 1,900 students from a broad geographic region attend Saint Francis.