ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jacqueline C. Rivers, PhD, the director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, earned her doctorate in African-American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. She is a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was the founder and executive director of MathPower, a leading community-based nonprofit in Boston for mathematics education reform in urban schools. From 2001 to 2004 she served as executive director for the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation.
Alan J. Hawkins is a professor in the Brigham Young University School of Family Life. Hawkins has done extensive research and written many publications on the role of fathers in child development, as well as on the role of pre-marital counseling and classes and other laws to reduce divorce rates. Hawkins currently serves as the chair of the Utah Commission on Marriage and as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Center for African American Marriages and Families at Hampton University. Hawkins holds a bachelors in psychology (1979) and master's degree in organizational behavior (1984) from BYU and a doctorate in human development and family studies (1990) from Pennsylvania State University.
W. Bradford Wilcox is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Wilcox has a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Bookings Institution before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia. His sociological research centers on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, particularly on how family structure, civil society, and culture affect the quality and stability of family life, and the ways families shape the economic outcomes of individuals and societies. 
Brandon McGinley writes about politics, faith, and culture from his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  His writing has appeared in print in National Review, Fare Forward, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, and the Pittsburgh Catholic and online at First Things, Public Discourse, The Week, The Federalist, National Review Online, Acculturated, and The Imaginative Conservative.  He has also contributed to and edited books for Our Sunday Visitor Catholic publishers. He is a graduate of Princeton University.
Rachel Wagley is a foreign policy adviser for a member of Congress. She previously served as the Director of Government Relations and External Affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Prior to joining NBR, she served as Policy Director of U.S. Campaign for Burma, where she advised international financial institutions, businesses, and civil society organizations on trade and investment and ethnic reconciliation in Burma. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including the Emory International Law Review, The Diplomat, The Hill, Global Post, The Fletcher Forum, The Federalist, and Foreign Policy's Democracy Lab. Rachel graduated cum laude from Harvard University with high honors in field. After completing her studies, she received a Fulbright grant to research and teach in Uttaradit Province, Thailand. While in college, she served as president of the Harvard Anscombe Society (then "True Love Revolution"), and she currently sits on the alumni board of the Love and Fidelity Network.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Judith Romea received her B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2014 and currently works as an associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. During her time at Stanford, Judy served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review, an independent student newspaper, and as president of the Stanford Anscombe Society, which she founded in 2012. She currently sits on the alumni board of the Love and Fidelity Network.