The 2023 AFCU Symposium is excited to announce our 2023 keynote speakers:

MICHAEL A. PERRY, O.F.M.

As a Franciscan friar, Michael has ministered in a variety of settings as assistant pastor in Chicago, a high school French teacher, and in the field of religious and theological formation of men in Africa discerning a vocation to the Franciscan Order. Michael’s passion is to serve in the manner of Francis of Assisi, bringing forth the dignity and unique value of each person while promoting a renewed sense of human fraternity and global solidarity.

DR. LINDA LEMURA & REV. PATRICK ROGERS, S.J.

Dr. Linda LeMura is a scientist and academic who is the current and 14th President of Le Moyne College. She is the first female layperson to be named as president of a Jesuit institution of higher education in the United States. Since 2014, when she was appointed president unanimously by the College’s Board of Trustees, Le Moyne has achieved seven years of its largest class enrollments. A hallmark of her time in office is developing collaborative partnerships with other institutions of higher education. She is actively engaged in the greater Syracuse community to improve the lives and education of those in the Central New York region.

Rev. Patrick Rogers, S.J. is native of Annapolis, Maryland, Father Rogers is the youngest of eleven children and has a twin brother named Peter. He has been the Vice-President for Mission Integration at Le Moyne College since July 2022 and prior to his moving to Syracuse spent five years at The University of Scranton as the Executive Director of the Jesuit Center. Other mission assignments as a priest included work at Georgetown University and St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.