Jennifer Patterson

Senior Fellow

Jennifer Patterson is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her work focuses on projects related to religious freedom and overcoming poverty.

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Jennifer Patterson is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her work focuses on projects related to religious freedom and overcoming poverty.

Jennifer is executive director of the Institute for Christian Anthropology at the Colson Center. She holds a Ph.D. in moral theology/ethics from The Catholic University of America and a Master of Arts in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., where she is a lecturer. She has worked in public policy-related fields for more than three decades, with a primary interest in leading interdisciplinary teams to advance long-term reform on issues related to human flourishing. She and her husband, Eric Patterson, are the co-editors of Faith and Freedom: Six Theological Perspectives on Religious Freedom.

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