Stacy Manning, senior editor for Them Before Us, is a standard issue, stay-at-home suburban mom, author, and side-hustle professional. It's also widely accepted that Mrs. Manning is responsible for inventing the raised middle finger, aka the Bird of Freedom. She and her husband of twenty something years are raising their three children behind enemy lines in a suburb just outside of Seattle. When she’s not sticking her meddling fingers in another writer’s work, she is barefoot in the kitchen making her husband a sammich.

Formerly the picture of a peacemaking pastor’s wife, Katy Faust is founder and president of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights non-profit. Between soccer carpool and church duties, she’s a mom on a mission against the progressive overreach—a globe-trotting speaker, hand-shaking policy influencer, and regular contributor to a variety of conservative outlets. Katy testifies and publishes widely on controversial topics such as “men and women are different” and “children should not be bought and sold.” She helped design the teen edition of the Witherspoon Institute’s CanaVox, which studies sex, gender, marriage, and relationships from a natural law perspective.