Helen Roy

Program: Budapest Fellowship Program

Year: 2024

Host Institution: Danube Institute

Research Focus: Hungarian Family Policy

Read her introduction here: hungaryfoundation.org

 

Helen Roy is a mother and writer, focusing on family policy, women’s issues, and culture. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Chinese Language from Wofford College as a Phi Beta Kappa.

Helen earned a Masters in Statecraft and National Security at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, where she focused on communism and postcommunism while working under the Directorate of Analysis at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Helen is a fellow at the Claremont Institute for Political Philosophy, a featured author for Fairer Disputations, and a lifestyle editor at Blaze Media.

Currently, she hosts the podcast The Female of the Species (formerly Girlboss, Interrupted) and runs her Substack Roy House in Budapest (formerly Ladies’ Late Rome Journal).

Helen believes that family policy, aesthetics, as well as cultural narratives around marriage, motherhood, fatherhood, and friendship are foundational to national thriving, and hopes to play some part in revitalizing positive attitudes toward these things — building a more family-friendly America — through her work.

 

 

The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking world.

The Institute itself has been committed from its foundation to three philosophical loyalties: a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy. These ideals remain our lodestars.

 

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