Carrie Gress has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is a faculty member at Pontifex University. She has authored several books, including Nudging Conversions, Ultimate Makeover, City of Saints (co-authored with George Weigel) and The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis, due out this May. A homeschooling mother of four, she and her family live in Virginia.