Kristin Heyer is professor of theological ethics at Boston College. Her books include Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration (2012) and Prophetic and Public: the Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (2006), both published with Georgetown University Press. Her other published works treat questions of conscience, the common good and political advocacy. She serves as co-chair of the planning committee for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church and an editor for Georgetown University Press’ Moral Traditions series. Her husband, Mark Potter, is a former ISN board member.