Ida Paz, the Review‘s production assistant, started as a volunteer at the Human Life Foundation in the summer of 2016. She began working part-time in 2017, assisting in an HLF project that continued on through 2018. She became a full-time employee in 2019. Ida graduated with a degree in banking and finance. This led to various jobs in the banking industry, a quasi-government fundraising charitable agency, and medical office administration. Her volunteer services have included parish council, teacher’s aide, school PTA and CCD.

Maria McFadden Maffucci is editor in chief of the Human Life Review, and president of the Human Life Foundation. Maffucci was formerly the HLR’s editor (from 1998-2020), executive editor and managing editor. Previously, she was managing editor of First Things and of the quarterly This World. She began her career at Boston University, working for Partisan Review, and the Center for the Study of Economic Culture with the late sociologist, Professor Peter Berger.

Mrs. Maffucci’s articles and reviews have appeared in the Human Life Review, National Review and NRO, First Things, Newsmax, the Catholic Herald, and Verily. In February of 2021, she was interviewed on Fox and Friends and CBS after she exposed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s deadly COVID policies for the developmentally disabled in group homes in a National Review Online commentary. In 2022, David Marcus named her in the Daily Wire as one of the “15 Pro-Life Heroes Who Brought Us the Overturn of Roe vs. Wade.”

A Holy Cross graduate with a B.A. in philosophy, Maffucci is married to Robert E. Maffucci, and the mother of three adult children, including a son on the autism spectrum.

Rose Flynn DeMaio, a graduate of New York University with a BS in Accounting, was employed with J.P. McFadden at National Review when he founded the Human Life Foundation. Believing in J.P.’s ability to bring intelligent information to the public, she became the Foundation’s independent accountant. After her retirement from National Review, she became the Foundation’s Financial Director and Board Treasurer.

James Patrick (J. P.) McFadden (1930-1998) was Associate Publisher of National Review magazine. In 1975, in response to the U. S. Supreme Court’s infamous decision on Roe v. Wade, he founded the Human Life Foundation, and its quarterly, the Human Life Review. Today his daughter, Maria McFadden Maffucci, is President of the Human Life Foundation and Editor in Chief of the Human Life Review.

Christina Angelopoulos (nee McFadden), is the managing editor of the Review. The fifth child of J.P. and Faith McFadden, she began working full-time for the Human Life Foundation in 2003. She has since worked to expand the Foundation’s technology, operations efficiency, archive organization,  and social media presence. A graduate of Fordham University, Mrs. Angelopoulos lives in Westchester with her husband and twin girls, and also sings professionally in Manhattan.