Kathy Tuan-MacLean is one of the few staff members who were involved with InterVarsity in high school. Growing up in Hawaiʻi, she was a leader of the InterSchool Punahou Christian Fellowship. Hawaiʻi was the “mission field” and not a state when InterVarsity was planted, and high school ministry was included in our mission.
Despite her early involvement with InterSchool, a call to ministry at age 14, and peripheral undergraduate involvement at Northwestern University, Kathy didn’t really plunge into InterVarsity until she began her PhD program in human development and social policy at Northwestern. Veteran campus staff member Dave Ivaska invited her to help him plant graduate ministry there. “Northwestern Graduate Christian Fellowship met in my living room for those first two years,” Kathy said. Conveniently, as a resident hall coordinator, she had an exceptionally large living room.
