Faculty

Richard and Vicki Braun have been CCL teachers since 1979 and now work full-time for the Couple to Couple League, Richard as the Program Team Assistant and Vicki as a project manager and consultant.

Jack Burnham, M.D., graduated from Ohio State University School of Medicine in 1984. After his family practice residency at Aultman Hospital in Canton, OH, he entered practice in Dover, OH. His practice included low-risk obstetrics for 15 years. He has been a member of the CCL Board of Directors since 2002. He and his wife, Judy, have seven children.

Father John Higgins was born and grew up in New York and discerned his vocation to the priesthood while attending Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. After graduating in 1990, Father Higgins worked for a year for Catholics United for the Faith, which was then located in New Rochelle, New York. During this time he was able to pay off college loans and to discern where God was calling him to serve as a priest. He studied at Saint John Neumann Residence in the Bronx, New York for the Archdiocese of New York, and after four years of Theology at Saint Joseph Seminary, Yonkers, he was ordained a priest on May 11, 1996.

His first assignment as a priest was at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Bronx, New York were he was for six years. Then, he became Parochial Vicar at Saint Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville, New York, where he started up a parish-based NFP class for all engaged couples. Since 2005 he has been at Assumption Church in Peekskill New York, where he now serves as Pastor. Assumption parish also offers NFP in Spanish.

Erik and Anne Tozzi have been CCL teachers in the Archdiocese of New York since 2002. In addition, they present a marriage preparation program each month at St. Joseph's Seminary. Erik has also served on the Board of Directors of CCL since 2007. He works as a Private Banker at J.P. Morgan, advising high net worth clients on investments, estate planning and debt. He received his BA in European History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. Anne was formerly a rare book specialist for the auction house Christie's. She received her BA from Oxford University and her MA from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London. She now homeschools their four children.

Faculty members subject to change.