Staff

Our staff brings over 50 years of experience covering a wide variety of disciplines including public relations, journalism, activism, web design, and graphic design. These are the experts that keep their eyes open to the bioethics issues coming down the pike and provide the tools and skills necessary for CBC to respond quickly with the right resources.

 

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Matthew Eppinette, Executive Director

Matthew’s educational background includes business, information technology, and bioethics. He has worked in both the non-profit and for profit sectors in communications, new media, information technology, and bioethics research. A chapter he wrote, “Human 2.0: Transhumanism as a Cultural Trend,” appears in Everyday Theology: How to Read Texts and Interpret Trends. He is also a contributing author to The New Media Frontier. He co-wrote and served as associate producer for the documentary film Anonymous Father’s Day, which explores the stories of women and men who are the children of sperm donors. He is currently studying Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and is a Fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. He and his wife Ginger live in the Los Angeles area.

 

Robyn Klein, Executive Assistant

Klein has worked for The CBC since 2001. She desires a world where people are educated on ethical science and have the information needed to make important decisions. Working with The CBC has been rewarding as a new awareness is transpiring in the media, various religious organizations, and the general public through the education of The CBC as we face “future” decisions today. She assists the Executive director with organizational tasks as well as event planning.

 

 

Melody, Martins, Assistant to the President

Melody believes there is power in the human experience—each person has a story that can change others. This conviction led her to study Theology and Journalism at Multnomah University so that she can work to provide a voice to those who are voiceless. She enjoys spending time outside and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

 

Evan Rosa, Communications Director

Evan is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, where he studied philosophy and linguistics, is currently pursuing a graduate degree in philosophy of religion and ethics at Talbot School of Theology, and is a Fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. He enjoys music, the ocean, walking slowly, and, of course, coffee. He and his wife Lani live in Southern California.

 

Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant

Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, is an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, appearing frequently at political, university, medical, legal, bioethics, and community gatherings across the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Wesley J Smith’s writing and opinion columns have appeared in such national and regional news publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard magazine, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Post, First Things, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Detroit News.

 

Christopher White, Director of Education and Programs

Christopher White is a graduate student in Ethics and Society at Fordham University. His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, First Things, Public Discourse, Human Life Review, and Touchstone among many other print and online publications. He is the co-author of the forthcoming Beyond the Catholic Culture Wars (Encounter Books) and is currently a Fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. He lives in New York City.