Our 2023 Speakers
These are just a few of our General Session speakers, and we will regularly be announcing more, but don’t forget… 40+ additional workshop speakers will be giving talks on dozens of topics as well!
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Amy Ford
Embrace Grace, President
Embrace Grace is a non-profit organization that formed for the purpose of providing curriculum and leadership support for churches to open their arms to young women with unexpected pregnancies and their families. Her program is used by over 900 churches across the nation and the world
Seth Dillon
The Babylon Bee, CEO
Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, the world’s most trusted, factually accurate news source. Taking on the tone of a traditional news media publication, the Bee satirizes real-world events and public figures.
Dillon’s experience with censorship and deplatforming has placed him on the front lines of the battle for free speech in the public square. He now speaks on college campuses and at conferences across the country about the effectiveness of humor, the moral imperative of mockery, and the dangers of censorship. He occasionally signs off Twitter to enjoy time with his wife and two sons in Juno Beach, Florida.
Seth Dillon will be the convention banquet speaker.
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Erik Rosales
EWTN News Nightly Capitol Hill Correspondent
EWTN News Nightly Capitol Hill Correspondent Erik Rosales is a multi-Emmy Award-winning journalist.
During his nearly 30 years in the television news industry, he’s worked at a number of cities through out the United States.
Erik has been with EWTN News Nightly since March of 2020. While on Capitol Hill, he covers a vast array of subjects that affect Catholic’s throughout the world. Erik has a unique ability to get answers from lawmakers and is well know for his skillful questioning of politicians in the U.S. Congress.
Erik is originally from the San Gabriel Valley of California. He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University. A Christian university where he met his wife, Stacey.
Erik is an active member of his church, The Basilica of Saint Mary in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Lauren Eden
Abortion Survivors Network
Lauren Eden is a wife, mom, minister, and second trimester surgical abortion survivor. In 2019, Lauren connected with the Abortion Survivors Network, which catapulted her into sharing her abortion survivor story. Since working with the network, Lauren has shared her story most recently at Georgia Life Alliance’s “Together for Life” rally, Vermont’s Right to Life march, and in interviews with Live Action, Faithful and Flawed podcast, and the Epoch Times. Lauren’s passion is using her voice to help others understand the truth about abortion, being a voice for the unborn, and helping people understand the church’s role in coming alongside women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy.
Alex Schadenberg
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, President
Alex Schadenberg has served as the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) since 1999 and became the executive director of EPC-USA in 2022. Alex co-produced the Euthanasia Deception documentary and has authored thousands of articles as well as published his book Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He has spoken throughout North America and has also participating in speaking tours in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary and Scotland.
Wesley J. Smith, J.D.
Discovery Institute & Humanize Podcast Host
Wesley Smith is an award-winning author, an internationally renowned speaker, and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients’ Rights Council. His Human Exceptionalism blog, hosted by National Review Online, is one of the premier blogs dealing with human life and dignity. Wesley has published hundreds of articles and opinion columns on issues such as the importance of being human (human exceptionalism), and the dangers of assisted suicide, bioethics, eugenics, transhumanism, legal ethics, medical ethics, and public affairs. He has written for numerous nationally and internationally well-known publications. Throughout his career in public advocacy, Wesley has appeared on thousands of television and radio programs. Wesley has testified as an expert witness in front of federal and state legislative committees.
Carol Tobias
National Right to Life, President
Carol Tobias is president of the National Right to Life Committee. A native of North Dakota, she has served on the NRLC board of directors since 1987. From 1983 to 1991, she was executive director of North Dakota Right to Life and in 1991 was hired as NRLC political director, a position she held until 2005.
During her tenure as political director, pro-life majorities were elected to both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. In 2000 and 2004, she oversaw the efforts of NRLC’s political action committee on behalf of George W. Bush.
In 2014, she testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary in opposition to the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act.”
Carol has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC’s Today, the NewsHour on PBS, news shows on CNN, C-SPAN, and Fox News Channel, as well as on numerous television and radio programs throughout the country. She has been quoted in Associated Press articles, in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.
Benjamin Watson
Former tight end, pro-life speaker & author
Benjamin Watson is a former NFL tight end, as well as a writer, a speaker, and an activist. He is a college football studio analyst with the SEC Network, and he serves as VP of strategic relationships with the Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life and pro-woman organizations in the country. Along with his wife, Kirsten, he is the founder of The Watson 7 Foundation, a nonprofit focused on strengthening families. They live in Georgia with their seven children.
Olivia Gans Turner
Co-founder of Women Exploited by Abortion and former director of American Victims of Abortion (A.V.A.)
Olivia Gans Turner helped organize one of the nations first peer-to-peer post-abortion support groups in the New York City area after her own abortion experience. As the former Director of A.V.A., she has traveled over seventeen countries and all fifty states to speak on post-abortion syndrome and other abortion related issues. She speaks on many college campuses throughout the year and is a frequent witness before legislative bodies providing testimony, on informed consent laws and parental notification laws as well as an abortion complications.