"These are the unforgettable characters who have written the script for the love stories you are about to read. They are the wayfarers along the path to a more hopeful life.

"I invite you to take this opportunity to meet the Clients, Members and Servant Leaders who are the Nurturing Network. Consider the kind of world they are helping to form. Quietly and effectively, communities are being created. Families are being born. Friendships are being forged. Unconditional love is taking its rightful bow.

"I hope that while reading this Journal, you may be moved to take this Journey with me. You may have your own hidden love story or you may sense that these 'maternal profiles in courage' sound very much like your own sister, your mother, or your very best friend."

Curriculum Vitae

MARY CUNNINGHAM AGEE

President and Founder of the Nurturing Network,
Corporate Strategic Planner, Charitable Entrepreneur,
Best-selling Author, Devoted Wife and Mother


 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Mary Cunningham Agee is the Founder and President of the Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization that provides a positive alternative to abortion to any woman facing the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy.  Since 1985, the Network has specialized in offering an individually-tailored program of practical support free of charge to college students and working women all over the world.

TNN’s 48,000 Resource Members are located in all 50 states and in over 30 foreign countries where they provide counseling, medical services, nurturing homes, employment, educational opportunities and financial assistance.  Setting politics and rhetoric aside, the Network has provided for the urgent and practical needs of over 19,000 women.  Each has been empowered to nurture her child's life . . . without compromising her own. 

For almost thirty years, Mrs. Agee has also served as President and CEO the Semper Charitable Foundation. She is a general partner in Semper Partners, a venture capital and strategy consulting firm founded in partnership with her husband.   

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Mrs. Agee has served in the top management of two Fortune 100 companies as the Vice President of Strategic Planning. As a result of her successful efforts in the development of a worldwide wine strategy for Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, she was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of the Seagram Wine Company.

Mrs. Agee’s international banking experience also includes serving as Assistant Treasurer in the Corporate Banking Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank World Headquarters and as a Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance Department of Salomon Brothers.

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

Mrs. Agee graduated in 1979 from the Harvard Business School with a Master's Degree in Finance and International Business. She was appointed to the highly-selective Century Club and was a finalist for the Copeland Marketing Award.  She graduated with Honors from Wellesley College where she majored in Logic and Philosophy and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  She received a Slater fellowship for study at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied Law, Ethics and Political Philosophy.

Mrs. Agee has been awarded Honorary Doctoral degrees from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Loyola College, Stonehill College, Franklin Pierce College, Chestnut Hill College and Notre Dame College.

BOARD EXPERIENCE

Mary Cunningham Agee is the President and CEO of the Nurturing Network and Semper Charitable Foundation. She serves on the Advisory Board of the National Council for Adoption, the Aquinas House at Dartmouth College, the Susan B. Anthony List, the Thomas More Law School, the National Memorial for the Unborn and Women Affirming Life.  

Board Leadership includes appointment as both President and Vice Chairman of the Culture of Life Foundation and Vice Chairman of the National Council for Adoption whose Board of Directors she served on for over a decade.  She has served on the Corporate or Advisory Boards of the Gregorian University Foundation, the Graduate School of Business at University College Dublin, Loyola College in Maryland, Marymount Manhattan College, Franklin Pierce College, the Catholic Schools Foundation in Boston, the Sisters of Life, Crisis Magazine, the Cardinal Newman Society, the Salvation Army, the Diocesan Board of Stewards in Idaho and Monterey, CA , Trinity Grammar and Prep, and Justin-Siena High School where she was appointed Co-Chairman of their $5,000,000 Capital Campaign.

Mrs. Agee has also served on the Board of Directors for Key Bank of Idaho, the First Women's Bank of New York, the Board of Governors of the Music Center of Los Angeles, the Institute of Business Ethics, the Common Ground for Life and Choice, Idaho Family Forum and "Enough Is Enough!", a national campaign to break pornographic abuse.

AWARDS & HONORS

For two successive years, Ms. Agee was voted by World Almanac one of "The 25 Most Influential Women in America."  She was selected by Good Housekeeping in their 100th Anniversary Edition as one of "100 Young Women of Promise".  Ms. Agee has been recognized as one of the "Outstanding Young Women of America" and is included among the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers and The Women’s Forum.

Mrs. Agee has received several inaugural awards including the John Paul II Award from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, the ExCorde Ecclesiae Award from the Cardinal Newman Society, the Ambassador of the Year Award from Legatus, the ITV Woman of the Year Award from the Archdiocese of New York, the Citizen of the Year Award from the Idaho Family Forum and the Archbishop John Hughes Award. 

Mrs. Agee has also received the Freedom Award from Provo, Utah, the Economic Equity Award from the Women's Equity Action League, Pro-Vita Award from the Archdiocese of Brooklyn, and the Humanitarian Lifetime Award from the Wisdom Institute.  

Mrs. Agee received the Centennial Medal of Honor from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, the James Keller Award from The Christophers, and a national Award by the members of the U.S. Senate and Childhelp USA for her unique efforts to assist children and families in need.  Her lifetime commitment to charitable causes has been recognized by appointment to both The Order of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS

Mrs. Agee is a member of the National Leadership Roundtable and has served as a Chairman's Advisor for the Journal of Business Strategy and the Strategic Planning Committee of the Conference Board.  She is a member of the Founder's Circle of the Women's Leadership Network, the Women's Forum, the Women's Equity Action League and the International Platform Association. She has served as a Chairman's Advisor for the United States Congressional Advisory Board and has presented testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

Other affiliations have included the United Negro College Fund, Economic Club of New York, the National Association of Business Economists and the American Management Association, the Family Policy Council and the Speakers Bureau for the National Policy Forum.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Mary Cunningham Agee is the best selling author of Powerplay, which reached the New York Times list in record time for a first-time author.  Her literary talent was recognized with the Golden Pen Award for outstanding achievement from the Authors' Guild. Her views are included among other prominent Catholics in several books including Catholics in the Public Square, Public Catholicism, and Why I am Still Catholic. Nightingale-Conant, the world's largest Audio cassette producer, selected Mrs. Agee for their renowned "Insight" series along with Norman Cousins and Phil Caldwell; a twelve-part series featured her views on Strategic Planning, Management and Business Ethics. 

Mrs. Agee's accomplishments in founding and directing The Nurturing Network have been featured in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Human Life Review, USA Today, Our Sunday Visitor, and Newsweek among many others.  Mrs. Agee received the highest rating as a public speaker from the International Platform Association and continues to speak out with courage and conviction about empowerment for women, the defense of the family and human life, humanizing the corporate culture, and reforming the society at large. 

She has been interviewed on many prominent national radio and television programs including: CBS "48 Hours," ABC News Forum with Peter Jennings, CBS This Morning, CBS News Nightwatch, The Phil Donahue Show, The Barbara Walters Special, NBC Today Show, Good Morning America, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, Ted Koppel, the Hour Magazine Show, EWTN, and National Empowerment Television.

Mrs. Agee has addressed such diverse and prestigious organizations as the Commonwealth Club of California, the Young Presidents' Organization, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the National Association of Accountants, the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, the American Personnel and Guidance Association, the Pontifical Athenaeum of the Holy Cross and the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy.   Her speeches and commentaries have been widely published in such well-known publications as TV Guide, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, International Management, Working Woman, Industry Week, Conference Board Magazine, The Human Life Review and Vital Speeches.  Her views on corporate ethics have been published in Institutions for Projecting American Values Abroad, III.

Mrs. Agee lives in the Napa Valley with her husband of 25 years and their two children, Mary Alana and Will.