Becoming a Holy Flack: One MBA's Divinely Inspired Career
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Manuel Dorantes, an MBA candidate at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, is following in the long tradition of students who use business school to grow into a new role with their employer. He just happens to work for the Catholic Church.
Last month, the Vatican tapped Dorantes, an ordained priest, to act as a liaison between Spanish-speaking media and the press office for the Holy See. For his first major assignment, he traveled to Rome for the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, where he translated press briefings from Italian to Spanish.