Colleen Carroll Campbell is an author, former White House speechwriter, and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a research organization in Washington, D.C. She is a regular columnist for CUF’s Lay Witness magazine.

She began her career as a reporter at the Memphis Commercial Appeal, before spending five years as a news and editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2000, Campbell won a $50,000 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship to write The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola Press, 2002). A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Marquette University, Campbell then began work toward a doctorate in philosophy at Saint Louis University but interrupted her studies to accept a job as one of six speechwriters to President George W. Bush. Campbell worked directly with the President on major policy addresses, writing his speeches on such topics as education, the faith-based initiative, the fight against AIDS, and judicial appointments.

Now working as an Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow, Campbell is a frequent commentator on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, a regular contributor to such publications as The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, and First Things, and host of "Faith & Culture," an international television talk show that airs on EWTN, the world's largest religious media network. She speaks to audiences across America and lives in St. Louis with her husband.

To learn more about her work, visit her website at www.colleen-campbell.com.