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Taryn DeLong is the copresident and editor-in-chief of Catholic Women in Business. She is a freelance writer and editor for publications such as the Public Discourse, CatholicMom.com, Natural Womanhood, Radiant magazine, Well-Read Mom, and FemCatholic. She is also cohost of the Catholic Women Lead podcast.

DeLong earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Meredith College and has been an assistant editor at FemCatholic.

She lives in North Carolina with her family.

Elise Crawford Gallagher is copresident and founder of Catholic Women in Business and the chief operations officer at JC Law, a regional law firm based in Baltimore, MD.

Gallagher holds a master of arts degree in communications from Johns Hopkins University and is a 2020 graduate of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses program. Gallagher was the founder and CEO of RINGLET, a marketing agency focused on serving women-owned businesses. She is a life and business coach, speaker, and serial entrepreneur.

She lives with her family in the Washington, DC, -Baltimore area.

Michelle Hillaert is the executive director of the GIVEN Institute.