Jennifer Roback Morse

Founder, Ruth Institute

Dr. Morse is the founder of the Ruth Institute, a non-profit organization committed to addressing the lies created by the Sexual Revolution over the past 50 years. She has authored 3 books and spoken around the globe regarding her theories on Marriage, Family and sexuality from a social and economic standpoint. She has engaged in debates and discussions with lawyers, professors, Church prelates, elected officials and policy makers on the issues of natural marriage, humane feminism and demographic winter.<br /> <br /> Dr. Morse earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Rochester in 1980. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University. She has served as a Research Fellow for the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and has held fellowships at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Cornell Law School, and the University of Chicago’s economics department. She authored many scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, such the Journal of Political Economy, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the University of Chicago Law Review. She has written opinion and analysis pieces that appeared in such outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reason, Policy Review, National Review Online, and many others.<br /> <br /> She is the author of “Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village,” and "101 Tips for a Happier Marriage," and "Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World," numerous pamphlets and tracts on issues including "The Government's Duty to Marriage," and "The Socialist Attack on the Family." A noted international speaker, she has been featured at the World Meeting of Families, in Valencia Spain in 2006 sponsored by the Pontifical Council on the Family, the Love Singapore Momentum conference in 2014 and as a guest on Fox News, CNN and EWTN among others.<br /> <br /> Dr. Morse was named one of the “Catholic Stars of 2013” by Our Sunday Visitor – a list that included Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.<br /> <br /> Over the years Dr. Morse observed the ever de-stabilizing sexual situation on university campuses and the harm it has caused. She founded the Ruth Institute in 2008 as a vehicle to help student leaders understand why a free society requires socially conservative values, with marriage being the centerpiece around which the rest revolve. Much of the education provided by the Ruth Institute is academic and scientific rather than theological, drawing heavily from economics, law, social science, psychology, physiology, and other disciplines. Dr. Morse has developed a close network of like-minded scientists, scholars, and professionals from these disciplines who work with the Institute to further its mission.<br /> <br /> Dr. Morse and her husband are parents of an adopted child, a birth child, eight foster children and now a goddaughter. She and her husband are keenly aware of the pressures facing emerging adults today.