Nathan is a 2019 fellowship alumnus and serves as CWF’s Director of Operations and Program Director. A 2017 Terry Scholar, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Texas with a B.B.A. in Business Integrated Studies: International Business and Marketing and très bien from the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France, with a Bachelor in Marketing & Business: International Business Management.

Formerly, Nathan served as Co-Founder and Director of Operations for Catholic Music Initiative, a nonprofit he helped build into an internationally known organization in the Catholic music world, and as the Director of Finance and Operations for Mindtap Marketing (now Hexa GTM), a digital marketing agency in headquartered in the DFW area.

A native Texan, Nathan is passionate about entrepreneurship and technology and enjoys working with start-ups and non-profit organizations. When he isn’t working, he can be found appreciating music, learning about new technology, playing ultimate frisbee, and traveling—especially internationally.

A fellowship alumna, Anna has great insight into the life of a fellow! She is currently a student at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, where she is studying Finance with minors in Theology and Mass Communications. In addition to her studies, Anna is a captain of the Cheer team, a member of Regnum Christi, and works for BC College Ministry. Following graduation, she plans to pursue a Master of Business Administration.

A CWF alumna, Maria graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Economics and Marketing. She discovered many new interests on the Fellowship and has spent the past few years exploring the intellectual tradition of our Catholic faith. Maria has worked in the public policy think tank space and is currently serving as a Regnum Christi missionary in Spain.

Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991.

After college, he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and baseball coach. He then spent a year as a professional actor in Chicago before entering the religious Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1993. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. He has taught moral theology at various ecclesiastical institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film.

Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican¹s 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist.

His most widely known books are “The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer” and “60 Days to Becoming a Missionary Disciple“. His library of online, do-it-yourself spiritual retreats are available at RCSpirituality.org.

Fr. Michael Baggot is a Professor Aggregato of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Catholic Institute of Technology. He also serves as a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues and the Catholic Worldview Fellowship summer program.

He was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Christendom College Rome program from 2018-2022. In addition, Baggot is a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights and a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI. His writings have appeared in First Things, Studia Bioethica, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Baggot is the chief editor of and a contributor to the book Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies (Routledge, 2022).

Katie Lundstrom, MBA, PCC, is the founder and President of Firm Foundations Inc (FFI), an executive leadership coaching and strategy and change consulting firm based in the Washington, D.C. area. She has more than 30 years of experience serving hundreds of clients across all types of industries in the areas of strategic planning, organizational & culture change, individual and team performance, strategic and tactical alignment, and leadership.

She is most passionate about partnering with leaders who really want to see change for themselves, their teams, and their organizations. She uses coaching, strategic planning, appreciative inquiry, and facilitation as core techniques to make change happen. Using these same techniques, she helped our co-founders establish the Catholic Worldview Fellowship in 2015-2016. Katie is a convert to the Catholic faith and has served on the Fellowship team since its inaugural year in 2017.

Tammy Grady is the Associate Director for Vocations for the Diocese of Dallas and works as a Spiritual Director for university students at SMU Catholic in Dallas and Benedictine College in Kansas. She has been a consecrated woman of the Regnum Christi Movement for twenty-five years and is very grateful for her vocation.

Before Consecrated Life, she obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nutrition in Nova Scotia, Canada. After college, she volunteered for two missionary years at NET Ministries & SPO Ministries, which led her to discover her vocation. During her formation period in Consecrated Life, she obtained a Licentiate Degree in Religious Sciences magna cum laude from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Recently, she received her Certification in TOB from the Theology of the Body Institute in Pennsylvania.

Tammy has worked with young people worldwide through missionary trips, pilgrimages, five World Youth Days, spiritual direction, and retreats in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Rome, the Holy Land, Mexico, Chile, Greece, Poland, and the USA. She has a heart for the new evangelization and the complementarity of men and women, especially among young adults trying to find their way, their place, and their mission in the world.

Addie Lovejoy was born and raised in Texas, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Development from Texas A&M University. She is finishing up her master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling. She is a management and change consultant for Firm Foundations, Inc. (FFI), where, for the past seven years, she has assisted companies in strategic planning, leadership strengthening, and team building. Addie is a convert to the Catholic faith and has been a part of the Catholic Worldview Fellowship staff since its inaugural summer. She currently resides in Florida with her son Landon and husband Connor, who serves in the U.S. military.

Julian Dewald grew up in southern Germany for the first twelve years of his life. Afterward, he moved to France to see if he had a vocation to religious life. After finishing his high school in France, he did a year of service in Wisconsin where he worked as the dean of a boarding school. Since then, he has moved back and forth between Germany and other countries to do his studies in international business. After his undergraduate, he worked as a project manager for FrieslandCampina for about a year in the Netherlands. Currently, he is studying Business Management at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.