Charlie Stuart’s career has been spent in marketing and sales. After graduating from the University of Florida where he started on the freshman football team for the Gators, Charlie joined the family business, rising from warehouse manager to president by the age of 27. The business closed in 1989 and Charlie spent the next 15 years as a consultant, speaker and author, traveling the United States and Canada working with organizations and companies of all sizes. An avid student of U.S. history, Charlie twice ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress. Today, Charlie is developing a program to engage the faith community in the public sphere representing the full range of “the least of these” principles. Charlie, 57, has been married to Barbara Larson Stuart for 34 years. They have 3 grown children.