Maggie Ventsias
Maggie Ventsias earned her BA in Art and her BFA in Professional and Creative Writing, as well as her MA in Studio Art from MIU. She’s currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing, graduating in 2022.
Maggie is a Certified Transcendental Meditation Instructor working with the Department of Consciousness to support students in their practice of TM. She was a Residential Hall Director for seven years before accepting the position of Dean of Students.
Before coming to MIU in 2014, Maggie owned her own book publishing business and ran a small co-operative farm in western Pennsylvania with her husband. She says the best work she has done in her life thus far was to raise three children who are now wonderful human beings making a constructive difference in the world.