Catherine Mannick

Catherine is former international lawyer, with over 30 years’ experience representing businesses operating in the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Western Europe. She is currently President of the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts and serves on the boards of the Davis Center for Russian and East European Studies at Harvard University and Beacon Hill Seminars, a Boston-based life-long learning institute, where she teaches courses on history and film. She is a member of the Finlandia Foundation Boston Chapter.

Catherine’s Finnish-American roots are in South Dakota, and she has been researching the history of the Finnish community in that area.  She belongs to the West River History Conference, a non-profit organization focused on the history of western South Dakota and the northern Great Plains.

Catherine earned a BA from Yale and a JD and MA in History from Harvard.  During college she spent a year studying Finnish language, history and culture at a folk high school in Northern Karelia. Catherine and her husband Enrico divide their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Padua, Italy. They have two daughters.  She enjoys skiing and traveling with her family.