Explore the Choosing Human Project
The Human Person
How are human beings formed?
How we raise children, order our homes, and live our daily lives shapes who we become.
Through books and essays, I write about motherhood, formation, and the vision of the human person at the heart of the Christian tradition.
The Human Future
What kind of humans are we becoming?
From CRISPR to artificial intelligence, the technologies shaping our future are raising deeper questions about what it means to be human.
Through Brave New Us and my writing, I explore bioethics, emerging technology, and the moral limits that define us.
The Human Life
How do we live as embodied humans?
A human life is not just thought about—it is lived in the body, in the home, and in the soil.
On YouTube and in Grow Where You’re Planted, I explore food, gardening, and the everyday practices that make a more grounded, human life possible.
Meet
Samantha
I’m a Catholic writer exploring what it means to remain fully human—whether at the kitchen table or in the lab.
Through my newsletter Choosing Human, my podcast Brave New Us, my books, and my YouTube channel, I explore the connection between what we believe about the human person and how we actually live—from emerging technologies to the everyday work of feeding a family, raising children, and building a home—because a real human life is grown, not engineered.
The biggest questions about the future aren’t just happening in labs or policy debates. They’re playing out in our habits, our homes, and our bodies.
At home—and on YouTube—I’m a homeschooling mother of four, learning (imperfectly) to live what I write: growing food, keeping rhythms, and building a life that is a little more grounded, embodied, and real.
Books in the Choosing Human Project
Each book explores a different dimension of what it means to live a fully human life.
Choosing Human on Substack
Choosing Human is a newsletter about learning how to live a fully human life in an increasingly artificial world—from the technologies we build to the way we feed our families and live each day.
See what people are saying…
“Samantha uses her gift of writing to invite mothers to explore Ignatian Spirituality and discover God in the ordinary unfoldings of their everyday lives. It’s easy to feel like Samantha is right there with you while reading her works, because her writings speak to the heart like the words of a dear friend.”
- LINDY WYNNE, HOST OF THE MAMAS IN SPIRIT PODCAST
“Samantha’s writing combines lived experience, theological knowledge, and common sense. She has a deep knowledge of bioethics, a lively sense of our current culture, and a profound love for God and his Church. Her writing does not appeal to the mind alone, nor the heart alone, but provides an intelligent and compassionate perspective that's well worth the read.”
- DR. CHRISTOPHER KACZOR, PHILOSOPHER AND DEAN OF FELLOWS AT WORD ON FIRE
“Samantha has a gift for seeing the connections between the mundane and the sacred, the messy and the miraculous, fleeting moments and timeless truths. Rooted in Ignatian spirituality, she invites readers to find God in all things in a voice that is both personal and profound.”
- KATHERINE BROWN, DIRECTOR OF MISSION AND IDENTITY PROGRAMS AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY