Cathy Cleary

Cathy Cleary is passionate about her work as a consciousness-raising speaker, community leader, activist and entrepreneur. She has been working in the area of international development for the past ten years and in the areas of community health and social justice for over twenty-five years. Much of her work has been in the areas of poverty reduction and injustice where Cathy has learned that everyone has something to offer, something to give. She developed the model of mindful giving and uses this to create dialogue around the act of giving, encouraging others to ask hard questions about their giving activities. She invites people to engage in conscious giving and to bring mindfulness to their giving practices in the workplace, at school, at home, and out into the broader world.