Kristan Hawkins is a Christian, wife, mother, grassroots activist, author, speaker, and a human rights advocate. President of Students for Life of America, she was recruited in 2006 to launch Students for Life of America’s full-time operation. Since then, she has built up a small organization made up of a few dozen student groups scattered around the country to a coordinated national team serving more than 1,200 Students for Life chapters in all fifty states. Under her leadership, Students for Life exists to abolish abortion by transforming our culture by recruiting, training, and mobilizing this pro-life generation, who are the direct targets of today’s abortion industry. A frequent speaker and media analyst, Kristan’s expertise includes abortion, feminism, disability advocacy and healthcare, as she navigates the social conditions and public policy that impacts the human rights issue of our day.​

A published author, Kristan wrote Courageous: Students Abolishing Abortion in this Lifetime. She has interviewed on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, CBS, ABC, and HBO and has received the title, “One of the 4 worst anti-abortion misinformers,” by Media Matters, a title of which she is very proud. Kristan regularly speaks at pro-life conventions and events across the United States including leading college campuses such as Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and UC-Berkeley.

Michael R. Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana, on June 7, 1959, one of six children born to Edward and Nancy Pence. After his grandfather immigrated to the United States when he was 17, his family settled in the Midwest. 

After graduating from Hanover College with his bachelor’s degree in history in1981, Vice President Pence practiced law, led the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, and began hosting The Mike Pence Show. Along the way he became the proud father to three children, Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey. 

 In 2000, he launched a successful bid for his local congressional seat, entering the United States House of Representatives at the age of 40. In 2013, Vice President Pence left the nation’s capital when Hoosiers elected him the 50th Governor of Indiana. Vice President Pence’s record of legislative and executive experience, and his strong family values that prompted President Donald Trump to select Mike Pence as his running mate in July 2016. The American people elected President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence on November 8, 2016. President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence entered office on January 20, 2017. 

In February 2021, Vice President Mike Pence joined the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow. Vice President Pence also joined Young America’s Foundation as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar. 

Vice President Mike Pence remains grateful for the grace of God, the love and support of his family, and the blessings of liberty that are every American’s birthright. 

Rachel Duffy is a NYTimes best-selling author, communications consultant, and television personality specializing in politics, culture and parenting. She is the host of America's #1 rated cable news morning show, FOX & Friends Weekend on the FOX News network. Rachel and her husband, Sean Duffy host a popular podcast, "From the Kitchen Table". 

Rachel got her start on television on MTV's iconic reality television show, "The Real World". Rachel's season filmed in San Francisco remains the franchise's most popular and culturally groundbreaking season. During a travel adventure show spin-off, Road Rules All Stars, Rachel met her future husband, Sean Duffy. 

Rachel has also appeared as a frequent guest on NBC's Today Show and ABC's The View. In 2008, she co-hosted the series "Speaking of Women's Health" on the Lifetime Network with the legendary Florence Henderson. 

Rachel's advocacy work has included serving as the national spokesperson for The LIBRE Initiative, a non-profit that advocates for the economic empowerment of Hispanics through limited government, entrepreneurship and self-reliance. She also served on the board of Hispanics for School Choice. Rachel's youngest daughter, Valentina, was born with Down Syndrome and Rachel considers it a privilege to use her platform to advocate for her daughter and everyone with special needs. 

Rachel has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Arizona State University's Honors Program and a Masters Degree in International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego. She is married to former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy and they have nine awesome kids!

Melissa is the survivor of a failed saline infusion abortion. Despite the initial concerns regarding Melissa’s future after surviving the attempt to end her life at approximately seven months gestation, she has not only survived but thrived. 

 Melissa is a Master’s level prepared Social Worker and the author of You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir. Her second book, which will focus on other abortion survivors breaking their silence, will be published in 2024. She is the Founder and Director of The Abortion Survivors Network, the only healing and advocacy organization for abortion survivors. Melissa and her team have connected with 633 survivors as of 2022.  

Jay Watts is the Founder and President of Merely Human Ministries, INC., an organization created to defend the intrinsic dignity of all human life. He works in cooperation with pro-life organizations to craft arguments and address issues to help others speak clearly on the value of human life. He speaks at conferences, banquets, churches, and schools across the United States, writes popular level articles for the Christian Research Journal, and produces online resources at the Merely Human Ministries website including the long form Human Things Podcast. Jay lives in East Cobb, Georgia in the Metro-Atlanta area with his wife Trayece, their three children, and two Golden Doodles.

Michele currently resides in Maryland and serves the Pro-Life Generation as Students for Life’s Director of Strategic Initiatives. In large part, this work includes overseeing the work of SFLA’s Campaign for Abortion Free Cities.   

Michele grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Hood College after studying Elementary and Special Education. As a sophomore in high school, Michele chose the topic of abortion for a project in her speech class. Through research for the assignment, she learned the heart-breaking truth about abortion and knew immediately that she was pro-life. However, with nowhere to really serve at the time, it wasn’t until after college, at the Maryland March for Life, that Michele finally discovered Students for Life and she made the decision to resign from teaching and serve the pro-life movement full-time.   

Michele also serves as Pastor of Care and Outreach in her local church and works alongside fellow pastors and ministry leaders in how to talk about abortion. She has spoken at the National Pro-Life Summit, Maryland March for Life, National March for Life Youth Rally, Philadelphia Respect Life Day, various rallies, banquets, all school assemblies, and in classrooms teaching Pro-Life Apologetics lessons.  

Camille Pauley is co-founder and president of Healing the Culture, a nonprofit organization that evangelizes and converts people to be deeply, authentically, and permanently pro-life. She is the creator of multiple internationally acclaimed, educational pro-life programs, including Philo and Sophie for young children, Principles & Choices for high school students, Respect Life University, and Life Principles Academy for college students. 

In 2003 Camille co-founded Healing the Culture with Fr. Robert Spitzer using his unique curriculum to change hearts and minds and build a culture of life. Under Camille’s leadership, Healing the Culture quickly grew into an internationally recognized organization with a powerful pro-life message, a wealth of successful products and resources, and tremendous influence in the cultural battle over abortion and euthanasia. 

Titus Folks has managed and worked on campaigns across the country and he has delivered 36 election wins to Students for Life Action since 2019. He started working in politics in 2013 by getting involved with Students for Life at Liberty University and he knows how important campus activism is in the fight to abolish abortion. He’s passionate about connecting college activists to pro-life jobs and internships (and he’s always happy to review a resume). 

Titus serves the Pro-Life Generation as Students for Life Action’s National Activist Coordinator.

Titus can be reached at tfolks@studentsforlife.org. 

Jordan Moorman grew up in Batesville, Indiana and graduated from Ball State University after studying history and political science.  

The 2018 March for Life solidified Jordan’s desire to do full-time pro-life work, and Jordan took his passion for public policy, politics, and pro-life activism to Students for Life in 2020. Jordan was an officer for the Catholic Student Union at Ball State and was part of numerous groups on campus which invigorated him to help make abortion unthinkable. 

Jordan currently resides just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio and serves the Pro-Life Generation as Students for Life Action’s National Field Coordinator.  

Jordan can be contacted at jmoorman@studentsforlife.org. 

Kate Maloney grew up in Burnt Hills, New York and graduated from Ithaca College after studying Vocal Performance.  

When Kate saw through the empty promises of abortion, it was something that deeply convicted her heart. She knew that women were being lied to, and those lies were at the cost of other lives. The injustice of abortion pits mothers against their children, and in doing so, the value of every human life is seen as circumstantial. Moved by these truths, a year after she graduated college, she took a chance and threw herself full blown into the pro-life movement. Her main goal is to influence the lives of the students she works to be unafraid in the face of adversity.  

Kate Maloney currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts and serves the Pro-Life Generation as the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities Manager. This work includes ensuring that efforts to make more than 20 different cities nationwide abortion free are operating smoothly and making progress.   

Kate can be reached at kmaloney@studentsforlife.org.

Bridget Weisenburger is the Director of Campaigns & Partnerships at The Heritage Foundation. In this role, she leads a team to drive integration, shape Heritage’s presence, cultivate new institutions, and build relationships across the country—and around the globe. 

Previously Weisenburger served as the Associate Director of Coalition Relations where she built and maintained relationships to advance domestic policy priorities. Prior to coming to Heritage, she managed communications for Texas charter school operator, ResponsiveEd. She received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Dallas and a master’s degree in Government from Hillsdale College.

Jessica Andreae is the Director of Operations for ProLove Ministries. Jessica has 25 years of professional experience (primarily in the insurance industry), including 12 years in senior leadership.  

Jessica has an MBA in Applied Leadership and Decision-making from UW-Stevens Point, and designations of CPA, ARM and CPCU. She is currently co-founding the UW-Stevens Point Center for Women’s Equity, Development and Leadership and is passionate about elevating women in leadership throughout the central Wisconsin region.

Tyson Langhofer serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom.

Langhofer represents students and faculty at public high schools and colleges in defending their First Amendment rights. For example, in Denton v. Hecht, he successfully defended a Florida State University student after he was removed as student senate president simply for sharing his Catholic views in a private group chat. In Cross v. Loudoun County Public Schools, he successfully defended an elementary school gym teacher after the school suspended him for peacefully sharing his views on a proposed policy at a public-school board meeting.

Langhofer has extensive experience in civil litigation and constitutional law. Before joining ADF, Langhofer was a partner with Stinson LLP, where he worked as a commercial litigation attorney from 2000 until he joined ADF in 2015.

Langhofer is Peer Review Rated AV® Preeminent in Martindale-Hubbell. He is a sought-after speaker on legal and cultural issues. He regularly comments on free speech issues in television, radio, and print media. He has appeared as a guest and written pieces for numerous major media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, Townhall, The Federalist, and The Daily Wire.

Langhofer earned his Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law in 1999, graduating cum laude. Langhofer is admitted to practice in multiple states, the U.S. Supreme Court, and numerous federal district and appellate courts.

Kristi Hamrick serves Students for Life & Students for Life Action as the Vice President of Media & Policy. She graduated from Anderson University with a degree in Mass Communications & Journalism with a Cognate in Political Science.

Her career as a journalist began in Indiana, in news outlets including the Indianapolis Star and Muncie Star, leading to Washington D.C. where she was a correspondent for CBN News, before working as press secretary for the Hopkins for Governor campaign in Kentucky. From there she became press secretary for Family Research Council, heading FRC’s communication shop and hosting FRC’s television show “Straight Talk with FRC.”

As an entrepreneur, Hamrick then established KSH Media from which she worked with a Who’s Who of conservative and pro-family organizations, strategizing to create and advance a policy agenda through paid and earned media, with an emphasis on marketing an effective story to news organizations.

Hamrick has been featured on major media broadcasts, print, and radio nationwide. From FOX, to NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, et al, with quotes and op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, Breitbart, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, and beyond.

Kristi resides near Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, and is a mother of four.

David A. Prentice, Ph.D. is the former Vice President for Scientific Affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. He is also a Founding Member for the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, a unique comprehensive stem cell center in Kansas that he was instrumental in creating. In 2020, he was appointed by the Secretary of HHS to the federal Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board. Dr. Prentice has almost 50 years’ experience as a scientific researcher and professor, including previous service at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Family Research Council, Professor of Life Sciences at Indiana State University, Adjunct Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Genetics at the John Paul II Institute, The Catholic University of America. He has provided scientific lectures, policy briefings and testimonies in 40 states and 21 countries, including before the U.S. House and Senate and numerous state legislatures, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the President’s Council on Bioethics, European Parliament, British Parliament, Canadian Parliament, Australian Parliament, German Bundestag, French Senate, Swedish Parliament, the United Nations, and the Vatican. 

Dr. Prentice has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific and bioethics articles, including a review of stem cell science and adult stem cell treatments published in Circulation Research.  He has also published various public commentaries and op-eds, and travels nationally and internationally to give invited lectures regarding stem cell research, fetal tissue research, gene editing, cloning, embryology, cell and developmental biology, cell culture and vaccines, bioethics, and public policy.

Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. With Dannenfelser at the helm of America’s largest grassroots pro-life political organization, the pro-life movement succeeded in electing a pro-life president and Senate, confirming three U.S. Supreme Court justices, and overturning Roe v. Wade. In the 2022 election cycle SBA Pro-Life America and its super PAC, Women Speak Out, raised more than $78 million and reached more than eight million pro-life voters through door-to-door canvassing, voter mail, texting, and digital communications. Previously in the 2020 cycle, their efforts helped elect the largest incoming class of pro-life congresswomen in history, with 19 new pro-life women and 30 total serving in the U.S. House of Representatives – more than double the previous record. 

In 2020 Dannenfelser was again named national co-chair of the Pro-Life Voices for Trump coalition, a role she held during the 2016 campaign after securing four groundbreaking pro-life commitments from the nominee. In 2017 she was appointed to the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission by U.S. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. In 2020, Dannenfelser served as a panelist on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. In addition, she served on Life Perspectives’ Task Force. She has been named to Politico’s Power List of 40 influential leaders for 2022 and Fox’s “rising political stars” for 2023. Previously she was one of Politico Magazine’s Top 50 Influencers, Washington Examiner’s top ten “Political Women on the Move,” Newsmax’s top 25 Most Influential Republican Women, and Newsweek’s top ten “Leaders of the Christian Right.” An alumna of Duke University, she and her husband Marty have five children.

Bernadette Tasy serves as a media relations manager at Alliance Defending Freedom, focusing on issues concerning the sanctity of life and religious freedom. Originally from Reedley, CA, she previously worked on numerous pro-life efforts at the local, state, and national levels. In 2017, with the help of ADF, Tasy took legal action against a Fresno

State professor for leading a group of students in defacing her student group’s
university-approved, pro-life chalk messages. She and her group won the lawsuit,
helping to intensify her passion for the pro-life movement.

Tasy has had her work published at The Federalist, Townhall, The Daily Signal and other outlets and is a former Campus Reform correspondent, appearing on Fox News and other national media. She graduated summa cum laude from Fresno State in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies and summa cum laude in 2019 with a Master of Arts in Speech Language Pathology. Tasy was a piano instructor, choral accompanist, and full-time speech language pathologist before joining the ADF team to defend pro-faith, pro-family, and pro-life values.

Denise Burke serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the Center for Legislative Advocacy. In this role, her efforts are directed toward protecting life from conception to natural death and defending the conscience rights of healthcare professionals.

Prior to joining ADF, Burke served as vice president of legal affairs for Americans
United for Life, where she routinely advised legislators, policy groups, and state
attorneys general on life issues. In addition, Burke testified before legislative committees on the constitutionality of pro-life legislation. Burke began her career with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, United States Air Force, both on active duty and in the reserve. Rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, she served as an instructor at the USAF JAG School and on the editorial board of the Air Force Law Review. In response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Burke volunteered to serve again on active duty. In recognition of her service, the Air Force awarded her the Meritorious Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

A member of the state bar of Texas, Burke is admitted to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and multiple federal
district and appellate courts. She earned her bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Maryland, followed by her Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University

Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo serves as legal counsel on the Center for Life at Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, Erica clerked on the Florida Supreme Court and Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. She also served as a criminal prosecutor in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office.

Erica earned a Juris Doctor in 2015 from the Florida State University College of Law where she served as managing editor of the Law Review and vice president of the Cuban American Bar Association student chapter. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami. Erica is admitted to practice law in Florida and the District of Columbia.

Julia Payne serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life. In this role, she defends the sanctity of life by litigating both beginning and end-of-life issues.

Before joining ADF, Payne worked at the Office of the Indiana Attorney General as a
deputy attorney general for five years. While at the AG’s office, she managed all of
Indiana’s pro-life litigation and also worked on cases concerning immigration, religious liberty, federalism, the Commerce Clause, criminal procedure, federal habeas corpus procedures, civil asset forfeiture, local and special laws, and the common law powers of the attorney general. She has argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, the Southern District of Indiana, and Indiana state courts.

Payne graduated cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2017,
where she served as an editor on the Indiana Law Journal and won best brief in the
Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition. During law school, Payne interned as a clerk for Indiana Solicitor General Tom Fisher and as a Blackstone Fellow with ADF’s
Center for Academic Freedom in Atlanta. She also served as president of the Christian
Legal Society and as an officer for the Advocates for Life and the Federalist Society.

Before law school, Payne graduated summa cum laude from Western Kentucky University with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Spanish. As an undergraduate, Payne studied abroad in both Spain and China. On campus, she served on the Student Government Association judicial counsel, led the music ministry for the Catholic Campus Center, and was an active member of Omega Phi Alpha service sorority. Payne was also a founding member of the Hilltoppers for Life, which helped spur her interest in First Amendment and pro-life issues. Payne is a member of the bars of the Indiana Supreme Court, the northern and southern districts of Indiana, and the 7th Circuit.

Bob Good has represented Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District in the 118th United States Congress since January 2021. He is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and has been named to the Budget Committee and the Education and the Workforce Committee where he is Chairman of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee.

Bob is committed to effectively representing the people of Virginia's Fifth Congressional District and advocating for the foundational principles that have and will continue to make America the greatest nation in history.

Prior to his election to Congress, he served one term on the Campbell County Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2019. Professionally, Bob worked as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Development at Liberty University for 15 years, following a 17-year career with CitiFinancial.

Good attended Liberty University, where was a member of the wrestling team and earned a Bachelor of Science in finance and a Master of Business Administration.

Bob lives in Prince Edward County with Tracey, his wife of 34 years. They are the proud parents of three adult children: Patrick, Sydney, and Conner.

Tim Garrison serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life, where he litigates across the spectrum of matters involving
constitutional freedoms and the sanctity of life.

Previously, Garrison was a partner at Husch Blackwell LLP, representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 500 companies, including support for ADF’s litigation in College of the Ozarks v. Biden.

Garrison was a federal prosecutor for 14 years and was U.S. Attorney for the Western
District of Missouri from 2018-2021. He personally prosecuted hundreds of cases involving international drug trafficking, violent crime, white collar crime, and crimes against children. Garrison successfully litigated numerous federal jury trials to verdict
and received the Missouri Bar Foundation’s Appellate Advocacy award for his
effectiveness at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Garrison is also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he has served on
active duty or in the reserves since 2003. He deployed to Iraq as a war crimes prosecutor in 2007 and saw combat in Afghanistan as Chief of Operational Law for the
I Marine Expeditionary Force in 2014. Garrison later served as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and is currently a reserve judge on the Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. He is a distinguished graduate of both the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School and Command and Staff College.

Garrison graduated from Drury University with a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude, in political science, and holds the master of public administration and juris doctor degrees from the University of Missouri. He is admitted to practice law in Missouri and in multiple federal courts.

Rep. Chip Roy is a devoted husband and father of two currently serving his third term in Congress representing Texas's 21st Congressional District — which includes South Austin, North San Antonio, and the Texas Hill Country.

Previously, Rep. Roy served as First Assistant Attorney General of Texas under Ken Paxton, Chief of Staff to Sen. Ted Cruz, senior advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry, Senate Judiciary Committee staff director under Sen. John Cornyn, and as a federal prosecutor. Prior to the public sector, he worked for nearly three years as an investment banking analyst.

Rep. Roy holds a B.A. and M.A from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Texas.  He serves on the House Judiciary, Rules, and Budget Committees and is the Policy Chair of the House Freedom Caucus.