CAROLE HALLUNDBAEK is an award-winning author, minister, and on-air host and commentator on religious matters for the national news media. She has worked with companies including NBC, TIME, HBO, and FOX, was a consultant to the PBS series Religion & Ethics Weekly, and has hosted her own prime-time TV program on faith, greater New York’s Winds of Change.

Carole is the author of Dear Little One: Thoughts to My Child in an Uncertain World (2005), a bestselling collection of life reflections to children of all ages; and Saints in Love: The Forgotten Loves Between Holy Women and Men – And How They Can Make Our Relationships Divine (2007), nominated this year for a Christopher and two Catholic Press Association Awards.

Co-founder of the Godspeed Institute, Carole helps individuals and organizations find peace and meaning through retreats and spiritual direction; education; relationship-building; conferences and events; and media and communications. She received her graduate degrees in theology and religion from Maryknoll School of Theology and Fordham University, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University. A native New Yorker, she now resides with her family in coastal Maine.