Summit Speakers and Biographies
Discover more about the experts, witnesses, and survivors that are going to be featured at the 2022 Summit for Survivors of the Sexual Revolution.
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
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Dr. Morse was a spokeswoman for California’s winning Proposition 8 campaign, defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. She has authored or co-authored six books and spoken around the globe on marriage, family and human sexuality. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish and Chuukese, the native language of the Micronesian Islands. Her latest book is The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church was Right All Along. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities. Dr. Morse was named one of the “Catholic Stars of 2013” on a list that included Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI. Dr. Morse and her husband are parents of an adopted child and a birth child, and were foster parents for San Diego County to eight children. In 2015, Dr. Morse and her husband relocated to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where the work of the Ruth Institute continues.
Rev. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Ruth Institute
Kristan Hawkins
President, Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action
Kristan Hawkins is a Christian wife, mother, grassroots activist, author, speaker, podcast host, and human rights advocate. She was recruited in 2006 to launch Students for Life of America’s full-time operation. Since then, she has built a small organization of a few dozen student groups scattered around the country into a coordinated national team that serves 1,200+ Students for Life chapters in all fifty states and has trained over 100,000 young people. She hosts a weekly podcast “Explicitly Pro-Life” found on iTunes and YouTube. Under her leadership, Students for Life works to abolish abortion and transform our culture by recruiting, training, and mobilizing this pro-life generation—the direct targets of today’s abortion industry. No entity has more mind-changing conversations about abortion, on-campus or online, everyday than Students for Life. 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 impact the human rights issues of our day
Paul Darrow
From Libertine to Total Chastity
Paul moved to Manhattan after graduating college and became a pleasure-seeker, an international fashion model, and an atheist. He enthusiastically embraced his addictions and gay identity for several decades. However, a series of grace-filled events turned his life around in amazing ways. His conversion story is so powerful that he was invited to speak at the Angelicum in Rome, where he pleaded with cardinals and other clergy to preserve the current teachings of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Soon after becoming Catholic, Paul was surprised to find himself filmed as a subject of the award-winning movie Desire of the Everlasting Hills, which has been distributed to the bishops at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has appeared on EWTN and is a frequent guest on talk radio from coast to coast. He is a member of Courage International and a recipient of its Annual Service Award. Whether giving presentations to high school and college students, clergy and seminarians, teachers, penitentiary inmates, or Catholic groups across the U.S. and in Europe, Paul shares his unusual testimony in order to be a living example that God’s grace is more powerful than even the greatest of human temptations.
Dan & Bethany Meola
Co-founders, Life-Giving Wounds
Daniel Meola is an adult child of divorce who earned his Ph.D. in Theology of Marriage and Family from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. He has been leading retreats and support groups for adult children of divorce or separation since 2015 in the Archdiocese of Washington, and in 2018 he founded Life-Giving Wounds to spread the retreat, support groups, and other ministries to adult children of divorce or separation around the country. Dan has over fifteen years of experience running retreats and giving presentations to various groups, including for youth, young adults, engaged couples, and families.
Bethany Meola has a master of theological studies degree from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. She and Dan met there and married in 2011. Bethany served the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for seven years in the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. Among other tasks, she managed the website For Your Marriage, and researched and wrote on various topics related to marriage and family. In 2017, Dan and Bethany welcomed their daughter Zelie-Louise through the gift of adoption, and Bethany became a stay-at-home mom. In 2019, Grace joined their family, also through adoption. The Meolas live in Bowie, MD.
Dr. quentin Van Meter
President, American College of Pediatricians
Dr. Van Meter graduated from The College of William and Mary then received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He did his pediatric internship and residency at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, through the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his pediatric endocrinology fellowship The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Van Meter worked as a staff pediatric endocrinologist at the Naval Hospital in San Diego and was Chairman and Director of the residency training program at the Naval Hospital Oakland. In 1991, he retired from a 20-year career in the Navy Medical Corps and moved to the Atlanta area where he joined the Fayette Medical Clinic as a Pediatrician and Pediatric Endocrinologist. To better serve the ever-expanding population of pediatric patients with endocrine disorders, he developed his own full-time endocrine practice, which today bears his name. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Morehouse Schools of Medicine. Dr. Van Meter has been campaigning around the world to educate health care professionals about the harm of affirmation of gender incongruences. Quentin and his wife, Kathy, have been married 47 years, and have four grown children and four grandsons. They are active members of the parish of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, where Quentin is a member of the choir. His youngest daughter, Mary, is a nurse practitioner in his office.
Don feder
Communications director, Ruth Institute
Don Feder was a Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from 1983 to 2002. He is the 1998 recipient of the International Communications Award of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the winner of the first-place prize in the Amy Foundation Writing Awards for 1993. He has also appeared on network and syndicated radio and television shows, including “The O’Reilly Factor,” “CSpan,” “Politically Incorrect,” “The 700 Club,” “Focus on the Family,” “Beverly LaHaye Live,” “Coral Ridge Ministries,” “Fox & Friends,” and Jerry Falwell’s “Listen America.” Besides practicing law and writing a syndicated column, Feder served as executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation, and editorial director of WEEI Newsradio in Boston. He has a media and political consulting firm, Don Feder Associates, and is a frequent contributor to various publications, along with his own website. Feder was World Congress of Families’ Communications Director, as well as the Communications Director of the documentary “Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family.” He now serves as Communications Director for the Ruth Institute.
Arnold Culbreath
Director of Ministry Engagement, Douglass Leadership Institute
Arnold M. Culbreath is described as having an apostolic/shepherding gift and a ministry of encouragement. He strives to equip the Body of Christ to walk in the fullness of all that God has called them to be and do. He desires to see every local church and every Believer fulfill their destiny and live life to the fullest in God. Apostle Arnold holds degrees in Architectural Engineering from I.T.T. Technical Institute in Dayton, OH, and also in Theology from Temple Bible College & Seminary in Cincinnati, OH. He currently serves as a Barnabas in Residence Pastor at Peoples Church in Cincinnati, OH, Director of Ministry Engagement with the Douglass Leadership Institute, and Founder and President of Breath of Life, LLC, a ministry that seeks to “Breathe Life into EVERY Situation.” Apostle Arnold has been a trailblazer in the pro-life movement locally, nationally and internationally. His ministry has taken him across the U.S., Africa, England, Scotland, and Trinidad. Arnold and his wife Barbara have been married for 37 years. They have two amazing adult children, one beautiful daughter-in-love, two gorgeous granddaughters and live in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Eric Scheidler
Executive Director, Pro-life Action League
Eric Scheidler is the Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League, founded in 1980 by his father, veteran pro-life leader Joe Scheidler, to fight abortion through non-violent direct action. Eric holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in English studies from the University of Georgia. From 1998 to 2002, he served as assistant director of The GIFT Foundation, an organization devoted to enriching Christian marriage. Since August 2007, Eric has headed the grassroots pro-life group Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood, which is dedicated to shutting down the largest abortion facility in the Midwest, opened in Aurora, Illinois, under a cloud of deception and controversy. He consults regularly with activists across the country on fighting Planned Parenthood at the local level. In 2012, Eric co-directed a nationwide series of Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies in opposition to the Obamacare HHS Mandate, which forces employer health plans to provide free contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. He continues to work with the hundreds of local leaders recruited for that effort on other pro-life initiatives, including the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, held annually on the third Saturday of September since 2013. Most recently, Eric has expanded and mobilized his nationwide network of local pro-life leaders as one of the three national co-directors of ProtestPP, a coalition of pro-life groups formed to protest Planned Parenthood trafficking in aborted fetal tissue, and boost the pro-life presence at their abortion facilities. Eric speaks frequently on pro-life issues to audiences around the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Aurora, Illinois, with his wife, April, and their eight children.
Dr. Scott Yenor
professor of Political science, boise state university
Scott Yenor is a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University, Chicago (2000) and his B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1993). He is the author of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (2011), David Hume’s Humanity: The Philosophy of Common Life and its Limits (2016), The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (2020), and multiple articles on David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment, presidential power, literature and politics, and other topics. He lives in Meridian, Idaho, with his wife, Amy, and his five children.
jim garlow
former senior pastor, Skyline church
Dr. Jim Garlow is former Senior Pastor at Skyline Church in San Diego, California. He came to national attention in 2008 for his leadership role in organizing religious groups to support California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. He has done over 900 radio, TV and print interviews, national and local, covering a wide-range of historical, theological, and political topics. In 2013, Jim became the radio spokesperson for Alliance Defending Freedom as part of The Garlow Perspective broadcast commentary. He graduated from Drew University (Ph.D. in historical theology), Princeton Theological Seminary (Master of Theology), Asbury Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity), Southern Nazarene University (B.A. & M.A.), Oklahoma Wesleyan University (A.A.). His co-authored book Cracking Da Vinci’s Code became No.17 on the New York Times Bestsellers List. A related book, The Da Vinci CodeBreaker, a dictionary with over 500 key Da Vinci Code related terms, went on to become a bestseller. Jim was married to his late wife Carol Garlow for 42 years prior to her passing. In 2014, he married Rosemary Schindler. They have eight children and nine grandchildren.
walt heyer
author and founder, sex change regret
Walt Heyer identified as a transgender woman for eight years and now has a passion for helping others who regret their gender change. Walt travels extensively to share his story of redemption at conferences, churches, and universities. Walt has appeared on numerous radio and television shows in the U.S. and Canada. His articles have been published online, and his books, Trans Life Survivors; A Transgender’s Faith; Paper Genders: Pulling the Mask Off the Transgender Phenomenon; Gender, Lies and Suicide: A Whistleblower Speaks Out; Articles of Impeachment against Sex Change Surgery; Perfected with Love; and Trading My Sorrows are a welcome resource in understanding the transgender issue.
Fr. Shenan boquet
president, human life international
Fr. Shenan Boquet is the president of Human Life International. Before coming to HLI, he served as pastor of St. Gregory Barbarigo Parish in Houma, Louisiana. Since being ordained a priest in 1993, Fr. Boquet has given hundreds of talks at conferences and in parishes on issues ranging from the dignity of the human person and the nature of marriage, to social justice and moral theology. He has given retreats and educational seminars on the Theology of the Body, Holy Scripture and various theological topics. Fr. Boquet has also appeared numerous times on EWTN, Ave Maria Radio, and other media. He has served and continues to serve on numerous boards, including the Diocesan Priests Council, of which he remains Chairman.
Steve Baskerville
professor of Political Studies at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Baskerville’s writings on family and fatherhood issues have appeared in leading national and international publications. He has appeared on national radio and television programs, including The O’Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Court TV with Fred Graham and Katherine Crier, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, Janet Parshall’s America, and others. Dr. Baskerville serves on the board of affiliates of Gendercide Watch, a human rights organization that monitors gender-selective atrocities; is an advisor to the Men’s Health Network; and is a contributing editor to the journal, In Search of Fatherhood.
Erin brewer, ph.d.
co-founder, Advocates Protecting Children
Erin Brewer, Ph.D., is co-founder the Compassion Coalition, an international group for those fighting to ban invasive, harmful, unproven medical interventions for gender-confused children; and Advocates Protecting Children, which raises awareness and supports efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of gender identity affirmation. Always Erin is a children’s book about Erin’s childhood gender dysphoria and Transing Our Children is a primer book about the transgender ideology. She and Maria Keffler have produced two video series, Commonsense Care for Parents and Teacher Talks for educators. She has a YouTube channel, Truth Is the New Hate Speech, which she uses to raise awareness about how the transgender movement is harming children and society. She has a BS from Hampshire College and a MS and Ph.D. from Utah State University.
maria keffler
co-founder, advocates protecting children
Maria Keffler is a co-founder of Advocates Protecting Children and the Arlington Parent Coalition, a watchdog group in Arlington, VA, which works to safeguard parents’ rights and children’s safety in public education. An author, speaker, and teacher with a background in educational psychology, Ms. Keffler has fought to support families and protect children from unethical activism and dangerous policies around sexuality and transgender ideology since 2018. She is the author of multiple books, including Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child out of the Gender Cult. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and three teenage children.
Charlene cothran
founder, the evidence ministry
Charlene Cothran is the founder of the Evidence Ministry, Inc., a ministry of the Zion Baptist Church of Palm Coast in Florida. She is an evangelist, conference speaker and counselor offering biblical solutions to deliverance from same-sex attraction. She also consults organizations working to prevent the so-called sexual rights revolution. Prior to her complete deliverance and transformation from 29+ years of lesbian life, Charlene was a publisher of an internationally distributed gay and lesbian lifestyles magazine, VENUS. Charlene is a former advocate for gay rights and former active member of the following gay and lesbian organizations: Human Rights Campaign, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, The National Lesbian Conference, The National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum, recruited by the VICTORY Fund and was the co-founder of In the Life Atlanta (Black gay pride). By her new life and work, Charlene offers evidence that God is still in the business of changing lives! She is now a sought-after international evangelist, conference speaker and counselor. She offers expert testimony for legislators fighting for religious freedom in the U.S. and abroad.
lori hoye
co-founder, Issues4life foundation
Lori Hoye is a pro-life activist and co-founder of the Issues4Life Foundation with her husband Rev. Walter Hoye. The Issues4life Foundation works directly with Black American leaders nationwide to strengthen their stand against abortion on demand and to resolve the questions surrounding the bioethical issues that impact our humanity. The mission of the Issues4Life Foundation is to end abortion by raising awareness of the impact of abortion and the biblically immoral implementation of unethical biotechnology in Black America. As a member of the 1% of children conceived in rape, often used to justify the other 99% of abortions, the Life issue is very close to Lori’s heart. Speaking to those hurt by the violence of abortion, and helping them receive the forgiveness and healing that only the Lord Jesus can provide, is vital to ending the scourge of child sacrifice in America.
Katrina Zeno
Author, speaker, and expert on St. John Paul II's "Theology of the Body
Katrina J. Zeno, MTS, (www.katrinazeno.com) has been speaking and teaching on St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” for over 25 years across the US and Canada as well as in Rome, Australia, England, Switzerland, Slovakia, Austria, Paraguay, Guatemala, Manila, Hong Kong, and China. She is the founding coordinator of the St. John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture for the Diocese of Phoenix, AZ, a position she held for 14 years until moving recently back to Steubenville, Ohio, to complete a second master’s degree in theology and catechetics. Katrina co-hosted a 13-part series on the Theology of the Body for EWTN, and she is the author of three books including Discovering the Feminine Genius and The Body Reveals God and a blog entitled, “TOB Tuesdays.” Katrina received her master of theological studies (MTS) from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D. C., in 2014 and her BA in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville (a long time ago…). Her dynamic speaking style and ability to make complicated concepts simple appeal to people of all ages and states in life. When not speaking, Katrina enjoys dancing salsa and Argentine tango, hiking, swimming, playing table tennis, and spending time with her married son, Michael, and grandchildren. You can find many of her videos and podcast interviews on the Internet and on her YouTube channel (videos in both English and Spanish).