Haley Byrd Wilt is a reporter at the nonprofit Allbritton Journalism Institute, where she covers Congress, human rights, and foreign policy. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, Foreign Policy, The Weekly Standard, The Dispatch, and AJI’s new publication, NOTUS. (She’s also published a fiction story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, which is way more fun than any of the above.) When Haley isn’t pestering lawmakers, she’s probably making crafts and goofing off with her toddler and baby. She grew up going to a nondenominational church in Indianapolis, where she accepted Christ. She later attended a Southern Baptist church with her family after moving to Florida at 11 years old. Haley and her husband are now members at Redemption Hill Church in Washington, D.C.