My name is Martha Hennessy and I live in Vermont with my husband Steven Melanson. My parents moved to Vermont in 1957 when I was two years old. Steven and I built our home across the field from where I grew up in Vermont and where our children were born.

My grandmother, Dorothy Day was the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement begun in 1933. The Catholic Worker Movement has grown from one house in New York City to 180 houses of hospitality for the homeless around the world.

As the seventh of Dorothy’s nine grandchildren, I am committed to the Catholic Worker tradition of welcoming the needy, celebrating the dignity of work, and speaking out against war and injustice, all grounded on a foundation of prayer.

In a spirit of gratitude I am available to give talks on the history of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement and its most needed and relevant vision and application today.

Through my travels to England, Mexico, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, the Rafah Border, and here at home in America I have come to know the suffering of the world’s people and I take to heart the calling of my Roman Catholic baptism.