Please join me in welcoming Amy Staples to Regional Development. She will support Darius Walker (West region) and Bob Morton (new East region fundraiser). Amy’s previous role, Leadership Gifts Coordinator at Middlebury College, has prepared her to jump right in, upon her arrival at Notre Dame. She is excited to join her boyfriend, Men’s Assistant Soccer Coach, Brian Plotkin in South Bend. Amy, who hails from Cape Cod, MA, is an avid traveler. She moved to South Bend just 4 days after returning from Machu Picchu, and has been “on safari in Africa, to the equator in Ecuador, and has eaten and hiked her way through Cinque Terre in Italy.” Amy enjoys hiking and likes to play volleyball. She has a love/hate relationship with running, and teaches spin classes. Amy joins the team on April 30th.

-Laura Midkiff