CRAIG DeROCHE
President & CEO
Craig DeRoche leads the nation’s largest alliance of Christian organizations that mobilize social conservatives to advance biblical values through civic engagement. Family Policy Alliance (FPA) hosts the network of 40 state family policy councils that employ over 400 employees, raise over $60 million annually and engage more than 50,000 churches every year. Family Policy Alliance Foundation is host to the Statesmen Academy, School Board Academy and Christians Engaged Academy—premier training programs for state legislators, school board members and citizens, respectively. FPAF’s annual Social Conservative Policy Conference (“SoConCon”) convenes the most influential social conservative policy and thought leaders in America.
In 2024, Craig and Bunni Pounds led the merger of FPA with Christians Engaged in an effort to mobilize more Christians to vote in every election. In that year’s election, FPA and CE mobilized over 850,000 voters for the first time and sent over 33 million emails and texts into the seven swing states to drive up Christian voter turnout.
At FPA, Craig has helped lead civil rights policy campaigns that have disrupted the global discussion on sex, gender, life, religion and parenting. Save Girls Sports was launched in 2017 to ensure fairness for girls’ and women’s sports, Help Not Harm in 2019 to protect kids from transgender surgeries and drugs, AfterRoe in 2021 and Let Parents Parent in 2023.
He was elected Speaker of the House in Michigan in 2004 at age 34. Craig is also a former president of Chuck Colson’s Justice Fellowship, having been hired by Chuck himself. Craig is in recovery from alcohol addiction and speaks to this personally in his published memoir, Highly Functional, detailing his fall into and triumph over addiction through surrender to Jesus Christ.
Craig is a frequent speaker and author and is regarded as a leading voice in American faith-based public policy. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox News, Christianity Today, and dozens of other leading news agencies. He is also the author of the Christian small group study guide and book Outrageous Justice. In 2016, Craig was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary 13th.
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