Nicholas Sanchez is the Director of Development for The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a nonprofit dedicated to the reform and renewal of Catholic higher education. He comes to CNS with over a decade’s worth of fund-raising experience.

In 1997 Mr. Sanchez worked as an assistant for Gary L. Bauer’s Campaign for Working Families, a pro-family, pro-life political action committee. The following year he was hired on at the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, an organization where he was tasked with a myriad of duties, including grant writing and event coordinating. During this time, Mr. Sanchez also took on policy and program responsibilities, writing a weekly column for FCF’s Notable News Now, co-hosting the syndicated television program Next Revolution, and serving as an Associate Producer for the daily television talk show, Direct Line with Paul Weyrich.

Paul Weyrich, Free Congress’s founder and President, later personally elevated Mr. Sanchez to the position of Director of Development. Mr. Sanchez held this post till 2002, when he entered the Monastery of the Holy Cross—a Byzantine Slavonic-rite monastic community located in the nation’s capital—and spent two years there discerning a vocation as a monk for the Studite (Ukrainian rite) order.

After returning to the secular world in 2004, Mr. Sanchez was recruited by Dr. Peter V. Sampo to head up the fund-raising efforts for The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, one of the colleges cited in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.

Mr. Sanchez is a resident of Falls Church, Virginia, a parishioner of Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek-Catholic Church in McLean, Virginia, and engaged to Miss Doris Schepian.

He can be reached at NSanchez@CardinalNewmanSociety.org