Director Maggie Little Named Recipient of Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair
Ethics Lab founder and Director Maggie Little, BPhil, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) has been named recipient of the KIE’s Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair.
The Chair was made possible through a generous gift from Kathleen (Kathy) McNamara Hugin, a 1982 graduate of Georgetown College from Summit, New Jersey, with her husband, Robert (Bob).
As Director of Ethics Lab, Little oversees the growth of Ethics Lab’s work on campus, as well as among partners—from nonprofits to corporations to other academic institutions. She guides the focus of the Lab’s coursework on an annual basis, pushing her colleagues—and by extension, students—to examine the world’s most pressing, complex problems. She is also a founding co-chair of the Tech and Society Initiative at Georgetown, and served as Director of the KIE from July 2009–June 2018.
“Being inducted into this Chair is especially, and personally, meaningful to me because of my deep admiration for and gratitude to Kathy and Bob Hugin,” says Maggie Little. “They have been pioneering partners and investors in Ethics Lab — funding the physical space for our ideation lab, providing investment for Ethics Lab to be an engine of new courses for a new Minor planned for Tech, Ethics, and Society, and more. From Kathy’s service on the Board of Directors to Bob and Kathy’s deeply generous philanthropy, they have supported Georgetown in countless ways.”