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Christine Emba

Senior Fellow (Spring 2026), Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Christine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work focuses on gender and sexuality, feminism, masculinity, youth culture, and social norms, and a spring 2026 senior fellow with the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. She is concurrently a contributing writer at the New York Times and a visiting fellow at the Center for Economy and Society at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute. Emba is also a contributing editor at Comment magazine, a board member at the American Institute for Boys and Men, and an editor-at-large at Wisdom of Crowds. She is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022).

Previously, Emba was a staff writer at the Atlantic, a columnist and editor at the Washington Post, a Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion, and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. She was named one of the world’s top-50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2022 and received the National Press Club’s Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism in 2024.

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