Ann Primus Berends

Ann Primus Berends is associate director of the Education, Schooling, and Society program at the University of Notre Dame and also works as its director of undergraduate studies. She has served as an associate director in the Alliance for Catholic Education; church director of in-house ministries in Nashville, Tennessee; project manager for education research at Vanderbilt University in Nashville; and coordinator of a literacy program at Highland View Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Additionally, she has worked for more than twenty-five years as a freelance writer and editor in both the public and private sectors.