Rachel Ferguson is the Director of the Free Enterprise Center at Concordia University Chicago, Assistant Dean of the College of Business, and Professor of Business Ethics. She is an affiliate scholar of the Acton Institute and co-author of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America. She is also a scholar at the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center, and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy. Her commentary has been featured at National Review, The Dispatch, Christian Post, Religion & Liberty, Discourse Magazine, Law and Liberty, Profectus, and elsewhere. She serves on the executive board of LOVETheLOU, a neighborhood stabilization ministry in North St. Louis, as well as for the Freedom Center of Missouri, which provides pro bono legal services related to individual economic freedom and government transparency. She serves on the advisory board for ReThink315, an apologetics ministry that helps to prepare students for college. She is a founder and board member for Gateway2Flourishing, a group of Christian business-people who funnel charitable efforts toward support for business in destabilized communities. Ferguson received her PhD in Philosophy from Saint Louis University in 2009. She is the mother of two fantastic young men, Asher and Solomon Douchant, and the wife of St. Louis radio morning news talk show host, Mike Ferguson.