Conference Speakers
Judith M. Stegman
Judith M. Stegman, consecrated virgin, has served as president of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins since 2004, while remaining active in her profession as a Certified Public Accountant. She has given numerous presentations on the vocation of consecrated virginity lived in the world and has developed the Vocation Tree project to promote a comprehensive understanding of "vocation," including the baptismal vocation to holiness; the lifelong choice to live as ordained, consecrated, or lay; and the use of one's individual gifts and talents in activities or a profession, such as medicine or business.
Her work in the renewal of the ancient Order of Virgins has included interactions with Bishops, clergy, and women in all parts of the world; collaboration with the Vatican and an international team in the planning of the Rome 2008 International Congress-Pilgrimage of Consecrated Virgins; a presentation at that Congress on "Virginal, Feminine, Spousal Love for Christ;" production of the DVD and discernment guide, "Consecrated Virgins in Today's Church;" a series on Radio Peace of Miami; an EWTN appearance in August 2009 on "Life on the Rock;" work with candidates for the vocation of consecrated virginity; editing of the quarterly production "The Lamp" of the USACV; preparation of lesson plans and materials for the Vocation Tree project; and presentations at a 2010 convocation of German consecrated virgins in Regensburg, Germany. See www.consecratedvirgins.org and www.vocationtree.org.
Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute, president of the Ruth Institute a project of the National Organization for Marriage to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage.
She is also the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
She is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World, (2005) and Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work (2001), recently reissued in paperback, as Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
Dr. Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980 and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago during 1979-80. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She was John M. Olin visiting scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. She is a regular contributor to the National Review Online, National Catholic 
Register, Town Hall, MercatorNet and To the Source.
In April 2008, Dr. Morse presented at the Harvard conference, "The Legacy and Future of Feminism." In July 2006, Dr. Morse was one of the few Americans who lectured at the Fifth Annual Meeting of Families in Valencia Spain, sponsored by the Pontifical Council on the Family. Dr. Morse lectured in Rome in April 1997 and in January 2006 at Acton Institute conferences celebrating the Papal encyclical, Centesimus Annus. Her public policy articles have appeared in Forbes, Policy Review,The American Enterprise, Fortune, Reason, the Wall Street Journal, Vital Speeches, and Religion and Liberty.
She currently lives in San Diego, CA. She and her husband are the parents of a birth child, an adopted child. From March 2003 to August 2006, Dr. Morse and her husband were foster parents for San Diego County. During that time, they cared for a total of eight foster children.
CATHOLIC WOMEN'S CONFERENCE
Givers of Life
Date: October 16, 2010
Time: 7:45 AM - 3:30 PM
Place: Hackett Catholic High School
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Keynote Speakers:
Judith M. Stegman
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Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
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