"Each person touched by the Nurturing Network soon discovers that they have embarked upon a Journey with no discernable beginning or end. Whether a Client, a Member or a Servant Leader, each person enters through the same narrow Gateway. They move on to both offer and receive Gifts. This loving energy lives on to nurture the seeds of a Harvest that becomes more abundant with each passing season.

Perhaps this is why those associated with the Nurturing Network often refer to their experience as 'a Journey of the Heart.' I have borrowed this term for our Journal in the hope that their collective voyage might never be forgotten."

Brief Profile of TNN Founder and President,
Mary Cunningham Agee

Mary Cunningham Agee is the Founder and President of the Nurturing Network, an international, charitable organization that has provided for the urgent and practical needs of more than 19,000 women faced with the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy. Through TNN's extensive international Network of over 48,000 Member Resources, Mary has been able to provide a positive alternative to abortion by offering each mother an individually-tailored program of comprehensive support free of charge.

Her two decade commitment to empowering mothers in crisis with life-affirming assistance is magnified by Mary's many additional leadership roles at both the local and national levels.

Wife, mother and best-selling author, Mary Cunningham Agee is the mother of three children, one of whom died in a second term miscarriage. It was this personal loss that riveted her heart and redirected her mind to the pivotal societal issue of abortion. At a time when most pro-life work was argumentative and confrontational, Mary shifted the emphasis from the obvious harm that abortion causes an unborn child to the profound challenges it inflicts upon the life of the mother.

Mary's education includes a BA with Honors from Wellesley College ('73) where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received two Danforth nominations in Political Philosophy and Ethics. She earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School ('79) and studied Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Notre Dame and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She has been awarded six honorary doctorates for her work over the past two decades in trying to alleviate the suffering of women and children. She is a devoted wife of 25 years and the dedicated mother of two college age children whom she home-schooled for many years.

Mary was one of the first women in America to "break the glass ceiling" by serving in the Senior Management of two Fortune 100 Companies as the Vice President of Strategic Planning in the 1980's. She wrote a best-selling autobiography about her experience at Bendix and Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and was twice voted by World Almanac as one of the "Twenty-five most influential women in America."

She has been given the opportunity to shared her insights about corporate culture, women in business and professional ethics at the Commonwealth Club, the National Platform Association, the Commonwealth Club of California, the Young President's Organization and the American Newspaper Publisher's Association. Her views have been featured in mainstream publications including the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping and Newsweek. She has appeared on many prime time television shows including Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, Donahue, The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Drawing upon her academic background and senior management experience in corporate America, Mary has helped to alleviate the loneliness and pain of mothers in crisis who otherwise lack the practical, emotional and financial means to support the life of their unborn children. Mary is untiring in her efforts to encourage others to place their values into action to build an "authentic and lasting culture of life...one choice at a time."

Mary poignantly wrote almost twenty-five years ago in the Nurturing Network's first published Brochure: "Those who support 'choice' can hardly dispute the value of creating another choice; those who support life can hardly reject an alternative made real."

Those words have empowered over 48,000 volunteers to bring hope and healing to over 19,000 women and their children.

Please refer to Mary Cunningham Agee's detailed Curriculum Vitae.