Dr. Mary O’Callaghan is a developmental psychologist based at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a visiting fellow there in the Fiat Program in Faith and Mental Health at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Since 2015 she has worked as a public policy fellow at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, focusing primarily on the issue of disability-selective abortion, and has been involved in state legislative efforts to protect infants with disabilities. She also teaches as an adjunct professor of statistics in the Mendoza College of Business.
Mary serves on the governing board and as chair of the Ethics and Public Policy Committee for the National Catholic Partnership for Disability. She and her husband have 5 children, including their youngest son, Tommy, who has a dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and autism.
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