Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment, a magazine of public theology for the common good that has become a vibrant ecosystem of conversation and communities rooted in the Christian humanist tradition and expressed through a growing podcast network and gatherings that span grassroots to institutional settings across North America and the U.K. She is also the creator and host of the Understory, Comment’s three-day “living magazine” and cultural festival, which debuted at Washington National Cathedral in 2026.
Prior to leading Comment, Anne directed The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Character Initiative, helping foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. Her pathbreaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing Our Social and Moral Landscape (2019), grew out of that work. She has also held positions with Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and earlier with The New York Times, World Affairs Journal, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum.
In 2020, Anne created and hosted Breaking Ground, an ambitious collaborative publishing project and institutional network launched by Comment and Plough in response to the pandemic and the social upheavals of that year. What began as an online commons bringing writers, artists, practitioners, and institutions together around questions of social and moral renewal grew into a learning community and network of more than twenty institutions committed to strengthening Christian social thought and action. The project culminated editorially in Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year (2022), which Anne co-edited with Susannah Black.
For many years Anne hosted The Whole Person Revolution podcast; she now hosts The Understory, a podcast growing out of Comment’s inaugural festival and the wider conversation it has sparked.
Anne has published widely, including in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly, and of course Comment, but her true joy comes in cultivating spaces of beauty where people of different backgrounds can be surprised by one another and renewed. She spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. She now lives in Washington, D.C.
