MANAGEMENT TEAM

Mater Dei Director

betsy.kneepkens@materdeiapostolate.org

Betsy served as the Director of Marriage, Family, and Life for the Diocese of Duluth for 11 years. Before working with the Diocese, she spent 28 years at the College of St. Scholastica as the Assistant Dean of Students. Betsy received her BA from the University of St. Thomas in History with a concentration in Secondary Education and Social Studies. She went on to receive her Masters of Education from the College of St. Scholastica with a concentration in Educational Management. Betsy is a wife and mother of six young adult children who, unfortunately, grew up when Catholic high school education was not available in the Diocese of Duluth. After continued daily prayers for two decades, she is now grateful to see them abundantly answered in Mater Dei Apostolate and Stella Maris Academy, making Catholic high school education available in diverse platforms for potentially every student in the Diocese of Duluth.

Mater Dei Headmaster

kamphenkel@materdeiapostolate.org

Brady received his Bachelors of Arts in Humanities from the College of St. Scholastica and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Maine. He has over a decade of experience teaching composition, rhetoric, literature, and creative writing at the collegiate level. An accomplished poet, Brady's work has been published in many literary journals and university presses, such as The National Poetry Review, SLANT, The Northern New England Review, Jabberwock, and Cave Wall. Brady applies his long study of and experience with classical education to his work both as Headmaster and as a dedicated member of the faculty.