About Barbara J. Elliott
Barbara J. Elliott is Senior Contributor at
The Imaginative Conservative. She is the President of the
Center for Cultural Renewal and Scholar-in-Residence and Assistant Professor in the Honors College of Houston Baptist University. She is the founder of the WorkFaith Connection, which transitions people from prison, homelessness, and unemployment into a new job and a new life. She is the author of five books, including
Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities. She received the Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from the President of the United States in 2001. As an American journalist based in Germany during the Cold War, she
interviewed those who risked their freedom and their lives to resist Communism.