Shawn Carney is the co-founder, CEO, and president of 40 Days for Life. He began as a volunteer in the pro-life movement while still in college. During this time he helped to lead the first-ever local 40 Days for Life campaign. After graduating from college, Shawn was asked to serve as the executive director of the Coalition for Life, a local pro-life organization in Texas made up of more than sixty churches.

In 2019, Shawn and his wife Marilisa were portrayed in the movie Unplanned, for their role in helping former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson during her conversion. Abby was the twenty-sixth out of more than two hundred abortion workers to date who have reached out to 40 Days for Life.

Shawn is a regular media spokesperson, and his work has been featured on hundreds of outlets including NBC News, Fox News, Fox & Friends, the Glenn Beck Show, the Laura Ingraham Show, BBC, the Drudge Report, The Guardian, USA Today, and Christian media, including The Christian Post, National Catholic Register, Sirius XM Catholic Radio, EWTN Radio, and Focus on the Family.

Shawn is one of the most sought after pro-life speakers today, addressing audiences coast-to-coast and internationally. He has executive produced and hosted award-winning pro-life documentaries and is the host of the weekly 40 Days for Life podcast. Shawn is the co-author of 40 Days for Life: Discover What God Has Done . . . Imagine What He Can Do and the author of the national best-seller The Beginning of the End of Abortion. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Shawn lives in Texas with his wife and eight children.