>> Hi, I'm Mary Ellen Hrutka, and I am the Executive Director
of the Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium.
We represent the Catholic Schools in the 6 dioceses in Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC.
And we represent almost 100,000 students in 309 Catholic Schools,
helping to make Catholic school education available, affordable,
accessible and academically excellent.
The one, there are two sort of things that kind of guide every day.
One is always mindful of our mission and then making sure
that we are maximizing our very small staff's resources to bring the benefits
and opportunities and collaboration to our Catholic schools.
We have 2 employs, so a very small organization, a very small budget.
And my colleague is a permanent full-time teleworker.
I work a lot from home, but we have an official office in Annapolis, Maryland.
Typically we work what would be considered a workday.
But like many professionals today, we work, we're available in the evening.
We're doing emails if we're in a project.
But we try and respect the weekends.
Like today I worked at home on my computer, prepared for some meetings,
we had a meeting with several of our dioceses in Washington,
and then I did a reference check for someone and I'm here today.
Tomorrow I will be traveling to the diocese of Richmond
to attend an event honoring the governor and will be working with the superintendent
and the chief education officer there.
And then on another day we'll be writing grants and doing our annual appeal
to raise funds for our organization.