Dr. Barbara Elliott
In 1981, Dr. Barbara Elliott was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve in his White House as Deputy Special Assistant in the Office of Public Liaison, where she directed programs on the White House economic program for leaders of the business community. Prior to that she served on Capitol Hill as Director of Legislative information and liaison to the House and Senate for the Heritage Foundation. After leaving the White House, Dr. Elliott was an international television correspondent for PBS in Germany, where she lived for 14 years and witnessed the Peaceful Revolution. In 2001, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from President George W. Bush for her service to refugees fleeing communism in Eastern Europe and for serving America’s poor.
Dr. Elliott launched three successful nonprofits in Houston. She is the president of The Center for Cultural Renewal and the Founder of the WorkFaith Connection, which transitions people from prison, drug addiction, homelessness, and unemployment into new jobs and new lives. For this she received the Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Manhattan Institute in 2011. Dr. Elliott is also co-founder of the Get Together, which connects business people to opportunities to meet the needs of faith-based ministries, now replicated in three locations. She has done capacity building for nearly 1,000 faith-based organizations throughout the United States.
Dr. Elliott currently serves as Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College at Houston Baptist University.
Other Books by Dr. Elliott
