Dr. Packard is an associate professor at Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her BSN from Georgetown University, MSN from The Catholic University of America, and her PhD from University of Maryland. Most recently, Mary has dedicated herself with her colleagues to the creation of an entry-level baccalaureate nursing program grounded and inspirited by caring science. In the MSN program, she teaches courses in curriculum and pedagogy grounded in caring. Mary is committed to circle practice as a way of living caring with her students and colleagues. With her students, Mary has come to understand ‘being-with’ in teaching nursing as entering sacred space, comfort in the presence of vulnerability, opening to the ‘inn-between’, and soul friendship.