We are thrilled to bring Katie to our third Catholic Women's Conference!  Katie is an author and speaker who would love to share her heart with women of any age. She is a wife, mom, award-winning author, international speaker, podcaster & daily radio show host.

After working in youth ministry and high school education for a number of years, Katie began speaking full time in 2017, averaging over 100,000 miles a year traveling to speak at events for young people, parishes, parent groups, fundraisers, retreats, religious education conferences, and more.

Katie is the author of four books with Ave Maria Press. She began working with Ave Maria Press in 2019 to help create digital and audio content for Ave Explores, a multi-media project digging into various Catholic topics relevant to people who want to learn more and live their faith in a real, practical way. She hosts the Ave Explores podcast, a long-form interview style podcast that topics relevant topics each season. Katie also hosts Like a Mother, a podcast about the joys, struggles, and ins and outs of motherhood. Like a Mother is an OSV podcast production. Katie and her husband, Tommy, are the hosts of Family Mass Prep on Hallow, a weekly podcast for families to get ready to hear and pray with the Sunday  Mass readings.

Katie regularly writes for Blessed is She, Our Sunday Visitor, Aleteia, and the Grotto Network. She appears as a Catholic commentator on CNN,  and is a consultant for the USCCB working group on youth and young adult ministry. Katie is an op-ed columnist with La Croix International, a French Catholic newspaper distributed daily in print and online.

In March of 2021, Katie began hosting The Katie McGrady Show, a daily radio program on The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM 129 that talks about pop culture, current events, Catholic news, how to live a life of abundant joy, and introduces listeners to a variety of engaging, dynamic, and profoundly inspiring guests.

Katie makes her home in Lake Charles, LA with her husband, Tommy, and daughters, Rose and Clare.

The Catholic Women's Conference is happy to announce that Abigail Huff will be our second speaker.  

Abigail grew up in New Albany, IN, and received her Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Ball State University in 2020. Upon graduation, Abigail experienced a deep conversion through the Holy Spirit allowing her to continue loving those around her through a college campus ministry, 'Saint Paul's Outreach' at the Ohio State University. 

She is continually impacted by those the Lord has put in her life, and she currently serves as a youth & young adult minister at a local parish in Columbus, OH where she resides. She is known for her joy and zeal for community. Therefore, she constantly finds excuses to land back home in Muncie where her journey began!