Speaker Bio

Dr. Scott Powell

Dr. Scott Powell is a teacher, theologian, and author. He is the director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought, an outreach to the University of Colorado Boulder. He has also taught at Denver’s Augustine Institute, and the Denver Catholic Biblical School, which is the lay division of the Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Annie, founded Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic outdoor adventure program for youth based in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Scott also co-hosts and produces the popular podcast, “The Word on the Hill with the Lanky Guys,” and has appeared in numerous Catholic productions, including “Symbolon,” “Beloved,” “Reborn,” “YDisciple” and the “Opening the Word” series. He has been featured on EWTN, “Catholic Answers Live” and numerous other Catholic outlets. He holds a doctorate in Catholic studies from Maryvale Institute/Liverpool Hope University in England. Cambridge Scholars Press will publish Scott’s doctoral dissertation, “An Environmental Ethic for the End of the World: An Ecological Midrash on Romans 8:19-22,” in 2019. Scott and his wife live near Boulder, Colo., with their three children, Lily Avila, Samuel Isaac and Evelyn Luca,.