Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and oversees its partner project, Breaking Ground. She is the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-editor of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year, published in January 2022.
Prior to leading Comment, she directed The Philanthropy Roundtable‘s Character Initiative, a program seeking to help foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. Her path-breaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape, was published in 2019. From 2014 to 2017 Anne worked for Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and before that, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, World Affairs Journal and The New York Times. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum and has published widely, including The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly and of course Comment, but consistently tries to balance her writing work with the call of community. Anne spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Speaker’s Bureau
October 20, 2020 | “Christianity & the Case for Democracy” an Online Conversation with Luke Bretherton, Deondra Rose, and Anne Snyder
March 27, 2020 | “The Long Loneliness” an Online Conversation with Anne Snyder
February 19, 2019 | “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse” an Evening Conversation in Washington, DC with Anne Snyder and Tim Carney
Related Trinity Forum Readings
“The Long Loneliness” by Dorothy Day, featuring an original introduction by David and Anne Snyder Brooks
Selected Publications and Scholarly Work
Comment Quarterly Editorials (from start of editorship in 2019 to present)
Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year (2022)
Revisiting Carl Henry’s “Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism” … 75 Years Later (2022)
Turning the Tide: A New Page in Christian Influence (2019)
The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal (2019)
Millennials Reinvent Localism in their Search for Community (2018)
Policing with Velvet Gloves (2016)
Inequality in an Acre (2014)
Persuading in a Divided Age (2013)