About Them Before Us

There’s nothing exceptional about the people behind Them Before Us. We aren’t professional writers or pedigreed activists. We are just people who think that children deserve to be the primary consideration when considering what is best for, well, children. We are ordinary people willing to state the cost that children, as well as society, pay when children are deprived of their fundamental needs.

We Strive to Make A Difference

Our Mission

Them Before Us is a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father.

Our Vision

Them Before Us strives to put children before adults in every conversation about marriage and family. We seek to prioritize the rights of children in the culture and courtroom, the personal and the public.

Our Goals

  1. Educate the public on a child-centric perspective of marriage and family.
  2. Represent the rights of children on policy matters.
  3. Translate core TBU messages into every language.

Katy Faust

Founder & President

Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. Katy and co-author Stacy Manning detailed their philosophy of worldview transmission in their second book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

Josh Wood

Executive Director

Josh Wood is the Executive Director at Them Before Us. He holds a Master’s Degree in Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership from Wheaton College and a Bachelor’s in Cross-Cultural Ministry from Messiah University. Josh has spent his career in nonprofit leadership and church ministry, focused on serving others and solving problems. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Corinne and three kids, Savannah, Lincoln, and Gideon.  

Jennifer Friesen

Training Director

Jennifer Friesen has been involved with TBU since its inception in 2018 and the Director of Operations since 2022. In 2024, she began a new role as Director of Training and continues as the host of the TBU Podcast. She has a background in special education and worked with adolescents with special needs for over ten years. She brought her decade of non-profit administration and management experience to Them Before Us and is passionate about spreading the message of children’s rights by equipping other advocates to share the message of children’s rights via social media messaging, small groups, and more.

Mary Kovach

Administration Director

Mary Kovach has worked as a soccer coach and as an Operations Director supporting various church ministries for the past seven years. Her previous roles prepared her well to join Them Before Us as the Administration Director, where her project management and organizational skills are helping structure TBU in preparation for its global takeover.

Patience Sunne

Engagement Director

Patience Griswold got her start at a state-level family policy council working in communications and directing a high school leadership program. From there, she worked at a national pro-life organization as the lead writer and project manager for a magazine making the case for life on college campuses, reaching an estimated 400,000 readers. In her role at Them Before Us she has provided written and verbal testimony before numerous state legislatures and wrote Them Before Us’s amicus brief in J.T.H. v. Spring Cook. When she isn’t advocating for children’s rights she can be found reading, drinking tea, and trying to keep houseplants alive.

STAY INFORMED

Them Before Us is made up of ordinary adults who are committed to putting the needs of children at the forefront of the battle surrounding the very foundation of our society - marriage and family.  Are you an ordinary person too? Does your simple blood boil when children are expected to conform to the lifestyle of adults because you understand, maybe firsthand, how hard that is on kids? And are you tired of culture framing adults as victims when we all know that kids are the ones who have to pay the price? If so, we are your people.

Join us. Stand strong. Speak up. Lose friends. All the cool kids are doing it.

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