Ana Samuel, Ph.D is a graduate of Princeton University and The University of Notre Dame, where she completed doctoral work on the political theory and sexual ethics of Montesquieu. She was the first executive director of the Witherspoon Institute at its foundation in 2003, and subsequently transitioned to a research and teaching role in 2010, focusing on projects about family structure studies. She edited No Differences? How Children in Same-Sex Households Fare and directed the development of the Family Structures Studies website. In 2013, she helped to launch CanaVox, which promotes the natural law view of marriage and sexuality in reading groups around the world. Every summer, she enjoys teaching the dialogues of Plato and Aristotle’s moral philosophy to high school students for the Witherspoon Institute’s summer seminars.