Maggie Gallagher

Maggie Gallagher is the Executive Director of the Benedict XVI institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship in San francisco, established by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileon. A columnist and author, she founded both the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and the National Organization for Marriage.

She was also a founding editor of two magazines: the online The National Pulse (which grew quickly under her leadership to 450,000 Facebook likes), and the Manhattan Institute’s quarterly journal of urban policy, The City Journal. She was a nationally syndicated columnist for 17 years, an editor and a columnist at National Review, and the author or co-author of four books, most recently Debating Same-Sex Marriage (Oxford University Press, 2012).