About Barbara J. Elliott
Barbara J. Elliott is Senior Contributor at
The Imaginative Conservative. She is Scholar-in-Residence and Assistant Professor in the Honors College of Houston Christian University and a Fellow of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Professor Elliott is the President of the Center for Cultural Renewal, and the founder of the WorkFaith Connection. She is the author of five books, including
Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities. She received the Eleanor 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 resulting in her book
Candles Behind the Wall: Heroes of the Peaceful Revolution that Shattered Communism.