Lori Lonergan Brennen is the Development Director at Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota.  Lori comes to us from her recent position as a Principal Gift Officer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.  Over the past six years in that role, Lori proudly shares her success at personally raising gifts totaling over $70 million dollars.  

Lori is a native of Southeastern Minnesota and graduated from Southland High School in Adams before obtaining her MBA from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.  Her love of life-long learning has her currently enrolled as a fellow in Saint Mary’s Education and Leadership Doctoral Program.  She and her husband, Tim Brennan, reside in Rochester. Lori loves fundraising because of all the good that is achieved by the dollars raised and looks forward to embarking in this newest chapter in her life.