Biography
Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is the incoming Executive Director (January 2026) of the Institute for Human Ecology, and Associate Professor of Economics at The Catholic University of America. She is the author of Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, and host of the Paidaxiology podcast.
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