About Them Before Us
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
- Educate the public on a child-centric perspective of marriage and family.
- Represent the rights of children on policy matters.
- 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. She detailed her philosophy of worldview transmission in her book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.
Stacy Manning
Senior Editor
Stacy Manning is the co-author of the Them Before Us book and Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, Senior Editor for all other things TBU related, and an amateur Life Advice Professional. She hails from the Pacific Northwest where she and her husband of more than two decades are raising their three children. When she is not advocating on behalf of children’s rights, she is gardening and cooking, and always ready to help tackle the interpersonal challenges of friends and strangers.
Jennifer Friesen
Director of Training
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.
Josh Wood
Executive Director
Josh Wood is the Executive Director for Them Before Us. Josh has a history of Non-profit leadership having served as the Chief Partnerships Officer for The Independence Fund, a nationally recognized organization serving Veterans, and before that as the National Director for Elevation Church’s Foundation distributing over $20M in grants and coordinating 4,000 volunteer events annually.
Katie Breckenridge
Operations Administrator
Katie Breckenridge holds a masters degree in Mental Health and Wellness with an emphasis in family dynamics, a graduate certificate in trauma-informed practice, and is working towards a second masters in Bioethics. She has written for Salvo Magazine, Society of St. Sebastian, and The Federalist on beginning and end-of-life issues, and has had articles published in The Times UK and The Scotsman through her work as a research associate for the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. When not advocating for the protection of the natural rights of children, she works extensively in the field of childcare and enjoys traveling.
Patience Griswold
Engagement Coordinator
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.
Katy Francisco
Donor Conceived Advocate
Katy Francisco is a woman born from donor conception who has done advocacy work sharing her story and supporting restorative reproductive
medicine. Previously, she served 6 years as Operations Manager of CanaVox and 3 years for the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine as secretariat.
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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