Michael Hichborn is the founder and president of the Lepanto Institute, a research and education organization dedicated to the defense of the Catholic Church against assaults from without as well as from within.

Michael also spent more than seven years as American Life League’s Director of the Defend the Faith project. In this capacity, Michael has researched and produced an annual report on organizations receiving grant money from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. This annual report, exposing dozens of grantees that are promoting abortion, birth control, homosexuality and Marxism, has led to a nation-wide review of the CCHD and a tightening of its guidelines. 

Michael has also conducted research on Catholic hospital systems that are involved in the performance of abortions and sterilizations; he wrote a detailed report on abortion and contraception-providing organizations receiving money from Catholic Relief Services; and produced a detailed report on Obamacare and its danger to women, pre-born babies and the elderly.

Most importantly, Michael is a Catholic husband to his wife Alyssa and father to their six children.