Simone Rizkallah

Simone Rizkallah currently teaches high school seniors Moral Theology and Church History. Her graduate degree is in Theological Studies with an emphasis in Systematic Theology from Christendom College. Her undergraduate studies and professional background include marketing communications, media, radio, and theatre before discovering her passion for the Faith and the call to evangelize through teaching and speaking.  

​As the daughter of immigrants from the Armenian Diaspora in Cairo, Egypt, she has a particular interest in matters of religious freedom and culture. Simone is an Institute of Catholic Theology Fellow, a Witherspoon/John Jay Institute Fellow, an Acton Institute Fellow, and has studied at the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies in Norcia, Italy, and at the Phoenix Institute at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria. She helps lead the local chapters of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation and the Washington, D.C. based non-profit In Defense of Christians. She is also a member of Women Speak For Themselves.  She blogs at www.culturalgypsy.com