Executive Director

Maria Harmon has a multitudinous background in education and administration. Throughout her career, she has studied and worked under electricians, engineers, teachers, museum staff, event managers, clergy, and more. She has worked in vacuum repair, high school education (both in-classroom and virtual tutoring), physics research, catering, finance, administration, communication, and chocolate arts. She is truly a jack-of-all-trades who knows that anything is possible with God’s insight and the right tools.

Maria became a Boston Fellow after a direct call from God to apply, having seen friends complete the program but being totally uninterested herself. Despite initial misgivings, she found Boston Fellows to be the first faith-and-[anything] program that actually kept Jesus front and center. She was likewise called both through personal discernment and Fellows leadership to become the next Executive Director and carry forth the mission to equip workplace leaders. Stay tuned as we all see how God grows this ministry and how his harvest is reaped in Boston!

Fun facts: Maria is a trained spiritual director, who loves getting to know the passions and ponderings of other Christians, always on the lookout for what the Spirit is doing in both small and big ways. She also loves to sing, whether in a praise team or a cappella, and to watch improv artists compete in game shows and play Dungeons & Dragons.

Founder, Board Chair

Prior to founding the Boston Fellows, Kelly Madden was Director of Graduate Studies at the International Leadership Foundation. He taught Social Ethics and Personal Leadership Development and deepened the academic standards of the International Leadership University's six graduate schools in Africa. Working under African directors, he helped build in political and community leaders the integrity necessary to spearhead continental transformation. Before that he lived and worked in French-speaking Africa for 13 years, first as a chaplain to university students, then overseeing chaplaincy programs in 15 countries. He has worked in 45 countries on five continents.

Kelly has a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD in Political Theory from the University of York, England. He is the husband of Heather, the father of two adult children, Alex and Kathryn, and an ordained Anglican clergyman. He writes the Substack “Seeing the Keystone” about symbolism in the Bible. 

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