Stacy Mitz, senior associate vice president of University Advancement, was named to the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Women of Influence list. The list honors prominent business and community leaders from throughout southeastern Wisconsin who are making the Milwaukee area a better place to live and work.
Mitz played a lead role in helping to drive the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in university history, Time to Rise: The Marquette Promise to Be The Difference, which significantly boosted scholarships and campus-wide resources. Time to Rise surpassed $800 million in funds raised in eight years, exceeding its $750 million goal.
She played a lead role in raising funds that especially helped students in significant need. When Marquette’s famous McCormick Hall was torn down, Mitz led a highly successful micro campaign where donors gave $82,000 to the university’s “Backpack program.” The funds revitalized the Backpack Program, which provides groceries and other basic goods to help more than one in five Marquette students who report facing food insecurity.
In addition to the Backpack Program, Mitz played a lead role in helping to revitalize a fund to help students struggling with life-changing circumstances in the heart of the pandemic.
Five alumnae were additionally named Women of Influence:
- Meg Brzyski-Nelson, foundation president and chief development officer for the health system at the Children’s Wisconsin Foundation
- Melissa McCord, partner at Quarles & Brady LLP
- Rebecca Mitich, office managing partner at Husch Blackwell
- Jacqueline Moore, chairman and CEO of CMRignite
- Nikki Purvis, president and CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin
This year’s winners will be honored at an awards event on Wednesday, June 18, and in a special section of the Milwaukee Business Journal released Friday, June 20.
