Montse Alvarado
Montse is the President and COO of EWTN News, Inc., where she oversees global news media platforms which create content in seven languages. Her leadership role at EWTN came two years after she was named the founding host of EWTN News in Depth, a weekly news discussion show of current events in the Catholic Church, politics, and culture, from a Catholic perspective.
Before EWTN, Montse spent fourteen years at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty where she was named COO & Executive Director in February 2017. Profiled by the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Edition with the following introduction: “A defender of all religion, on the front lines of America’s culture wars,” her tenure at Becket oversaw twelve Supreme Court religious liberty victories protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor, the rights of religious groups to choose their leaders, Muslim prisoners’ rights, civil rights of Jewish schools and synagogues, and safeguarding religious foster care agencies.
Montse has degrees from the George Washington University and Florida International University. She serves on the GIVEN Institute’s Advisory Council as well as numerous other advisory and directorial boards. Montse has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, among other major publications. Born in Mexico City, she is fluent in Spanish and French. Montse serves on the GIVEN Institute Board of Directors.