Speaker Bio

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, where she directs the Center for Religion, Culture and Civil Society, and is editor-at-large of National Review. She is an award-winning syndicated columnist who speaks frequently on faith and public life and co-author of “How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice.” Lopez has been published by a wide variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Stars and Stripes, The National Catholic Register and First Things. Among other honors, she was awarded the annual Washington Women in Journalism Award for Outstanding Journalism in the Periodic Press from CQ Roll Call in 2016 for writing about genocide against Christians in the Middle East and religious persecution.