Wendy Wright is an American social conservatism policy strategist. From 2006 to 2013 she was the president and chief executive officer of

Concerned Women for America Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a socially conservative, evangelical Christian non-profit women's legislative action committee in the United States. Headquartered in Washington D.C., the CWA is involved in social and political movements, t ...

, a Christian conservative political action committee active in the United States. She joined the organization in 1999 and served as its executive vice president before being named president on January 30, 2006. Wright was listed as one of "The 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington" in 2006 by '' Washingtonian'' magazine. Wright is a frequent spokesperson for conservative causes, including

anti-abortion Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respons ...

and international issues. Between 2011 and 2016, she also served as the vice president for government relations and communications at the

Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) is a right-wing United States-based advocacy group, founded in 1997, in order to affect policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions. It was formerly known as the Cathol ...

(C-Fam). She is also the CEO and President of Christian Freedom International, a

human rights organization A human rights group, or human rights organization, is a non-governmental organization which advocates for human rights through identification of their violation, collecting incident data, its analysis and publication, promotion of public awareness ...

that works against global

persecution of Christians The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts to Christianity have both been targeted for persecution, sometimes to the point of b ...

Pop culture

In 2008 Wright was interviewed by Evolutionary Biologist

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...

for his program '' The Genius of Charles Darwin'' in the episode entitled "God Strikes Back", where she argues against evolution and, in favour of creationist doctrine, she dismisses the reality of scientific evidence visibly presented to us in the natural world. "Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Complete)", YouTube

Retrieved January 12, 2014 Dawkins wrote of the exchange in his 2009 book '' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution''.

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