Austin Ruse is an activist, journalist author and serves as President of The Center for Family and Human Rights ("C-Fam"), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. C-Fam has played a central role in blocking a global right to abortion and blocking sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) from becoming a new category of non-discrimination in international law. Austin has published more than 1000 essays, columns, and articles along with four books, including "Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics,," and, "Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic." Austin  spent many years in the New York magazine world, working at senior levels at Fortune, Forbes, The Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone.  After a religious conversion, Austin left that world and began volunteering his time at his Catholic Church. In 1997 he joined a pro-life lobbying group at the United Nations, then called "The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute." He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate, the National Security Council and the White House staff on U.N. matters. He has appeared on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, Fox News, and other media outlets. Ruse’s articles have been published in First Things, Washington Times, National Review Online, Weekly Standard, Human Events, Touchstone, TheCatholicThing.org and newspapers around the world.  He is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. He has received various awards for prolife work, including The Henry Hyde Life Leadership Award, the Defender of Life Award, and the John Cardinal O’Connor Award. Austin holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from Franciscan University of Steubenville.  He and his wife Cathleen, who is senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council, have two daughters, Lucy and Gigi.