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 in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Southern Maine–Stonecoast, where his research centered on English verse prosody and Modernist poetics. He has taught at the collegiate level at Lake Superior College and the College of St. Scholastica, in the areas of composition and rhetoric studies, English literature, and creative writing. An accomplished poet, Brady is known for his work published in journals such as 2River, SLANT, The Northern New England Review and Cave Wall. He currently resides in Duluth. A firm believer in education that is founded in the classical heritage, he looks forward to his role as Headmaster at Mater Dei, in addition to teaching literary subjects near and dear to him as part of the dedicated faculty.