Biographical Sketches of Speakers

Cathie Adams has been involved in several legislative committees in Austin, . The news since the mid-1980s. She media frequently calls her for the “conservative” side of their currently serves on the national board as reporting. 1st Vice President, Editor of the Eagle She is a full-time volunteer, has been married to Dr. Homer Forum Report (successor to the Phyllis Adams for 48 years and they have five grandchildren. Schlafly Report) and is the International Issues Chairman (www.eagleforum.org). Alyssa Ahlgren was born in Chicago, She served as the President of Texas Eagle IL and raised in northern Wisconsin.

Cathie Adams Forum from 1993-2015, and was elected Her mother is an immigrant from Republican National Committeewoman for Croatia and a small business owner, Texas in 2008 stepping down after being elected Chairman and her father is a most God-fearing of the Republican Party of Texas from 2009-2010. She was man. She was raised to believe in named by Campaigns and Elections magazine’s August 2010 the inherent value of freedom, faith, issue as one of the top 50 Republican influencers in Texas. virtue, and personal responsibility. She has been an election judge, a member of the district, Alyssa was a collegiate hockey player Alyssa Ahlgren state and national resolutions/platform committees; a at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated delegate to six Republican National Conventions; and with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. She believes especially enjoyed serving on the Republican National in our unalienable rights that are protected under the Platform Committee in 2000, 2004, and 2008. greatest political document known to man, the Constitution, and is committed to fighting for this Cathie has been an observer of major UN conferences document and for our American values. since 1995, and attended the Women’s Conference in Beijing, China; the Housing Summit in Istanbul, Turkey; Barbara Anderson holds a Bachelor the Food Summit in Rome, Italy; and a number of Climate of Science degree in Spanish from the Change meetings in Kyoto, Japan; Buenos Aires, Argentina; University of Minnesota and is a former Bonn, Germany; The Hague, Netherlands; Poznan, high school teacher. She is a research Poland; Cancun, Mexico; Durban, South Africa; Doha, analyst and writer for the Minnesota Qatar; Warsaw, Poland; Lima, Peru; Paris, France; and Family Council focusing on the area of Marrakech, Morocco. When the International Criminal sex education and the homosexual agenda Court was created in Rome in 1998, Cathie was there. She having spent twenty years researching sex also attended the 2000 Millennium Summit in New York Barb Anderson education curricula. She is a Mentor Mom City, the Global Taxing Summit in Monterrey, Mexico, for Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS). She and her husband, George, have two children and three and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in grandchildren. Johannesburg, South Africa. She traveled to Hong Kong for a Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization and Stephanie Bell, PhD. was first elected to the Alabama State to Paris, France for a UNESCO meeting. Board of Education in 1994 and has been re-elected to seven consecutive terms. She is the longest serving board member Cathie has been involved in civic activities as well. She was and has twice served as the board’s Vice President. a member of the Dallas Human Services Commission and has testified before the State Board of Education as well as She serves on the 2017-2019 Executive Committee, the Nominating Committee, and the Steering Vernadette graduated with Honors Committee for the Education Commission from Yale University with a bachelor of the States (ECS) where she has been a of science in Biology, and received her Commissioner for more than a decade. She law degree from Harvard Law School. also serves on the Board of Directors as a She has practiced as a commercial Southern Area Director for the National litigator and served as an Assistant Association of State Boards of Education District Attorney with the Fulton (NASBE) and has been a member of the County, Georgia, District Attorney’s Governmental Affairs for multiple terms and Stephanie Bell Office. Prior to law school, she worked Vernadette Broyles was appointed to special panels that released in neuro-pharmaceutical research. reports, including “Reading at Risk: The State Response to the She served for five years on the State Board of the Georgia Crisis in Adolescent Literacy.” Department of Human Services, where she co-chaired the During her service on the state school board, Stephanie Department of Family and Children Services Committee has pushed for major education reforms, including the and gained many insights into state child protective services. award-winning Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) and the She was appointed by the George W. Bush Administration internationally-recognized Alabama Math, Science, and to serve on Advisory Boards to the U.S. Department of Technology Initiative (AMSTI). She also worked to expose Justice Violence Against Women program and the Juvenile corruption in the state’s two-year college system when it was Justice and Delinquency Prevention program, and as a under the board’s authority. Public Interest Director with the Federal Home Loan Bank She has participated in numerous state and national panel of Atlanta. discussions and education forums and has been interviewed on Vernadette has been featured as a columnist with The Atlanta the BBC and , National Public Radio (NPR), Journal-Constitution. She and her husband (also an attorney) and Alabama Public Television (APT). Before serving on the live in Johns Creek, Georgia, and have two children. board, she also taught English to Chinese adults at the Taichung YMCA in Taiwan. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English Margaret Clarke, J.D. serves as from Auburn University where she was part of numerous a Board Member and the General campus clubs and organizations, including AU Student Counsel of Eagle Forum of Alabama. Government, The Plainsman, The Glomerata, and Chi Omega She is a graduate of Law Sorority. She and her husband, John C. Bell, and attorney have School and Reformed Theological been married since 1980. They have two grandchildren and Seminary. She has served as General three daughters. Their son is in heaven. Counsel for the Florida Department of Dr. Erin Brewer developed gender HRS and the Alabama Policy Institute dysphoria in first grade. She did in Birmingham, AL. She previously Margaret Clarke everything she could to be a boy. She organized the National School Choice wasn’t a tomboy in her mind, she was a Roundtable and the Alabama Scholarship Fund which in boy. Her mother eventually sent her to time gave support to legislation for the Alabama school a therapist, and she was able to manage choice tax credit. A resident of Birmingham, Margaret is her feelings of gender dysphoria. Erin married to Chuck and was a homeschooling mother of shares her deeply personal story to help three. others understand the damage that Monica Cline is a former family planning training manager is being done to our children by the Erin Brewer and volunteer educator for Planned Parenthood. She holds a transgender movement. B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Educational Psychology Erin grew up in Salt Lake City and earned a B.S. from from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Certified Hampshire College in Amherst, . She has Building Family Connections Instructor, Medical Institute a Doctorate in Instructional Technology and Learning for Sexual Health; a Sexual Risk Avoidance Specialist Science from Utah State University. (SRAS), Ascend; and a Master of Ministry in Christian Counseling (currently working towards completion of this Vernadette Broyles, Esq. is the President and General Counsel of Child & Parental Rights Campaign, Inc., a non- degree). partisan not-for-profit public interest law firm founded Monica’s HIV prevention, comprehensive sex education to defend parents’ rights to shield their children against (CSE) and Title X training lasted over a decade. During the harms of ideology. Vernadette is an this time, Monica thrived as an accomplished consultant, experienced family law litigator and Guardian Ad Litem trainer and public speaker. However, she came to learn representing the best interests of children in court, and has from her mentors that serving the marginalized meant been an advocate for student privacy, parental rights, and “meeting them where they’re at,” and leaving them there. Title IX protections in public school. This philosophy, her experience in the community, and her own personal story prompted Monica to Dr. Michelle Cretella is a question comprehensive sex education and pediatrician and President of the crisis pregnancy counseling. Her questions American College of Pediatricians. were not welcomed by her superiors, and She was elected to the College’s Board she was told that if she wasn’t pro-choice, of Directors in 2005. Prior to being then she didn’t belong there. elected President in 2015, Dr. Cretella chaired the Adolescent Sexuality Today, Monica boldly exposes the truth Committee, Pediatric Psychosocial behind comprehensive sex education and Development Committee, and Monica Cline the harm it causes to our children, families Michelle Cretella Scientific Policy Committee. In these and community. She is the founder and executive director roles she became one of the College’s chief researchers, of It Takes a Family, whose goal is to encourage parents to writers and spokespersons on issues of pediatric mental and take on their God-given role as the primary educators for sexual health. She is regularly consulted by , their children. She accomplishes this by equipping families FRC, One News Now, Relevant Radio and many others. Her with the resources and skills necessary to strengthen family article “Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of trust and confidence. Monica’s belief is that It Takes a Family Debate” was published in the 2016 summer issue of Journal to raise strong children, build healthy communities, and of American Physicians and Surgeons. form a great nation. Dr. Cretella serves on the Medical Committee of the Alliance Anne Schlafly Cori is Chairman of for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (a national Eagle Forum and has served on Eagle organization of health professionals who advocate for Forum board of directors for eleven psychotherapy for ego-dystonic homosexuality and gender years. dysphoria). Dr. Cretella served on the Board of Directors From 2012-16, Anne Cori was the of the National Association for Research and Therapy for regular guest host for “Eagle Forum Homosexuality (NARTH) from 2010-2015. Live,” a weekly radio show on the Bott She received her medical degree in 1994 from the Radio Network, and she has hosted fifty University of Connecticut School of Medicine, completing programs. She has emceed several Eagle Anne Cori her internship and residency in pediatrics in 1997 at the Forum events over the years, including Eagle Council and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Collegians. Connecticut. She accomplished a fellowship in College Health through the University of in 1999. After Anne is the daughter of . She and her husband, 15 years practicing as a board-certified pediatrician in Tom Cori, have hosted many candidate fund raisers in their Connecticut and Rhode Island, she left clinical practice to home. Anne has a B.A. in history from Georgetown University engage in full time administration of the College. and her hobby is teaching people how to cook. Dr. Cretella and her husband have three teenage sons and Eric Coykendall joined the Barney one daughter. Charter School Initiative (BCSI) of Hillsdale College in March 2015 as an Dr. Mary Eberstadt is a Senior associate director. In his capacity with BCSI Research Fellow at the Faith and Reason he advises new charters through the process Institute in Washington, D.C., and author of the new book Primal Screams: How the of obtaining a charter and establishing a Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. school in affiliation with BCSI. Her other books include It’s Dangerous to He graduated from Hillsdale College with Believe, How the West Really Lost God, and Eric Coykendall a B.A. in Politics in 2010, and received an Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution. M.A. in American Politics and Political Philosophy from Mary Eberstadt the Claremont Graduate University in 2013. Eberstadt’s writing has appeared in many magazines He previously served as the Director of Fellowships for the and journals including TIME, , , where he oversaw curriculum and , , and . management for fellowship program courses in American Her 2010 novel The Loser Letters, about a young woman in politics and political thought. Alongside his professional rehab struggling with atheism, was adapted for stage, and premiered at Catholic University in fall 2017. Seton Hall responsibilities, he is working on a dissertation that University awarded her an honorary doctorate in humane examines Supreme Court jurisprudence on the subject of letters in 2014. During the Reagan administration, she religious liberty. was speechwriter to Secretary of State George Shultz, and He and his wife have four children with one on the way, and a special assistant to Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the they live in Hillsdale, Michigan. . Eberstadt is also the founder of the Kirkpatrick Society, April Few is the Communications named after her late mentor, . Founded in Director for the national non-profit 2011, the Kirkpatrick Society is based in Washington, D.C., education policy organization, and is a professional and literary society for women working U.S. Parents Involved in Education in journalism, government, television, radio, book editing, (USPIE). In this role, she coordinates think tanks, and foundations. The Kirkpatrick Society national calls with PIE chapter is made up of over 300 women and meets on a monthly presidents across the country, serves basis. As of January 2017, the American Enterprise Institute as Chair for the USPIE Marketing assumed responsibility for the management and operations Committee, and is the organization’s April Few of the Kirkpatrick Society. website content manager. Eberstadt is married to author and demographer Nicholas April has been a featured guest for education policy issues Eberstadt. on national and local shows around the country. She is also a sought-after speaker in South Carolina where Karen is the Executive she presents the problems with the workforce development Director of Capitol Resource model of education and she recently testified in front of the Institute, a non-profit organization South Carolina House Education K-12 Subcommittee. that provides education and advocacy April is featured as the protagonist in the documentary, for . She has led its work Truth and Lies in American Education, scheduled for release in the California state legislature and in the fall of 2020. The trailer for the documentary will be at local government levels for 11 years. unveiled for the first time during EPC 31, 2020. CRI is the oldest and largest pro- family public policy organization in Karen England April is also a certified Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Specialist California. and is passionate about helping South Carolina youth avoid risky behavior to achieve optimal health outcomes. Her public policy involvement began with combating April lives in Camden, S.C., with her husband and 4-year- anti-family policies at the local and state levels, as she saw old daughter. They are expecting a second daughter and their impact on her own family. After this, Karen began plan to homeschool their children. volunteering with Concerned Women for America, and became the Legislative Liaison for Eagle Forum. In her Becky Gerritson is the Executive position at CRI, Karen has been described as “a point person Director of Alabama Eagle Forum. for conservatives.” Legislators and others seek out Karen for She began her journey in conservative her incisive and consistently pro-family analysis of current grassroots politics when she and her legislation. As the creator of “Day at the Capitol,” Karen husband founded the Wetumpka brings regular citizens into the legislative and advocacy TEA Party in 2009, which quickly process. She directs the City on the Hill Youth Leadership grew to be the largest and most active Conference. Where each summer, students become mock TEA Party in Alabama. She served as legislators for the week, receive hands-on training in President until January 2019. Becky Gerritson grassroots organization, learn about their Christian heritage, Becky’s passion has led her to work with and serve in and more. During the academic year, Karen conducts leadership roles with other conservative organizations. She seminars on civic involvement at public and private high has served as the Alabama State coordinator for Foundation schools. for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG) and also the Karen serves her state and nation in a range of capacities. National Grassroots Coordinator for Grassroots for Victory She was appointed spokeswoman for California’s Prop 73 USA. In that role she helped to unite conservative grassroots campaign in 2005. For the last several years, she has served groups across the country via their “Let’s Put ‘US’ Back in on the Board of Directors for the California Republican USA” national tour. She has been an active member of the Stop Common Core Task Force in Alabama and was a state Assembly, the oldest Republican grassroots organization in leader for ParentalRights.org. In 2012, she traveled the this state. The media regularly feature Karen in print, radio, country as a media correspondent with B!G Voices Media and television coverage of family issues. She has represented and has run for U.S. Congress in Alabama’s Second District. family values in outlets including , The O’Reilly Factor, The Laura Ingram Show, the Chronicle, Becky’s high-powered energy and activism has been lauded WorldNetDaily, and others. Her writing has appeared on the by national conservative figures including , FlashReport, California’s version of the , and , , ’ and elsewhere. others. She’s a frequent guest on FOX News and FOX Business and multiple programs Karen and her husband, John, reside in Roseville, California. across the country. Becky’s desire for freedom is fueled by her faith in God and He co-authored Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism love for her family. She has been married to her best friend, and wrote the chapter, “The Enemy Threat Doctrine of Eric for almost 27-years; they have one daughter, Shelley, Al Qaeda: Taking the War to the Heart of our Foe” in the and two grandchildren. book, Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism, Isaac Publishing. Tim Goeglein is the vice president for External and Government Dr. Gorka has briefed the CIA, the DIA, the U.S. Navy Relations at Seals, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, served as an in Washington, D.C. He served in expert for the DoJ during the Boston Bombing trial, and high-level government posts for two testified before Congress on the threat of Global Jihadism. decades, including press secretary for He remains a guest instructor at the John F. Special former Senator Dan Coats of , Warfare Center and School, at Fort Bragg, the home of the special assistant to President George Green Berets.

W. Bush, and deputy director of the Tim Goeglein Gorka writes for The Hill and has written Why We Fight … White House Office of Public Liaison. Defeating America’s Enemies with No Apologies. Before In addition, Goeglein served as a communications director launching his new SALEM show, “AMERICA FIRST with for at the Campaign for Working Families ,” he was an advisor to candidate Donald J. Along with Craig Osten, Goeglein has authored American Trump and served on the staff of the White House in 2017 Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can as Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategy. Heal Our Nation. They make the case that an American Dr. Mary Grabar was born in restoration is not only possible, but probable—if we act Slovenia when it was still part of the now. The key is for Christians to engage with the culture, not Communist Yugoslavia and grew up in flee from it, to be the salt and light that will renew it from Rochester, New York. She earned her Ph.D. within. In this clear-eyed but hopeful guide to restoration, in English from the University of Georgia Goeglein and Osten explain how patriotic Americans, with in 2002 and taught at a number of colleges God’s help, can renew fifteen critical components of our and universities in Georgia until 2013. culture. While teaching, she wrote widely on Goeglein and his wife, Jenny, reside in the Washington, Mary Grabar political, cultural, and educational topics, D.C. metropolitan area and have two sons. and founded the Dissident Prof Education Project, a Dr. Sebastian Gorka was born in the nonprofit reform initiative. UK to parents who escaped communism She is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. for the Study of Western Civilization and the founder of the He is an internationally recognized authority Dissident Prof Education Project. She taught at the college on issues of national security, irregular level for twenty years, most recently at Emory University, warfare, terrorism and democratization, and her work has been published by , , having worked in government and the FrontPage Magazine, City Journal, American Greatness, and private and NGO sectors in Europe and the Academic Questions. Sebastian Gorka United States. A graduate of the University Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States, of London and Corvinus University, has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Budapest, he was Kokkalis Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors, Kennedy School of Government and holds a Ph.D. in and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach political science. students that American history is nothing more than a Since September 11, 2001, he has been heavily involved in litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation. Zinn’s history the training and education of counterterrorism, special forces is popular, but it is also massively wrong. Scholar Mary and law enforcement officers. Dr. Gorka has published in Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book excess of 140 monographs, book chapters and articles, and Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the appears regularly in the international press, to include the Fake History That Turned a Generation BBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, CBN, REUTERS, The Washington against America. TIMEs, Al Jazeera, and Alhurra. Dr. Gorka advises and briefs at the highest levels to U.S. Special Operations Command Janine Hansen has been the president and NATO. He is a frequent lecturer at institutions such of Nevada Eagle Forum since 1974 the FBI Academy, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare and a volunteer lobbyist at the Nevada Center and School, Fort Bragg, and is lead instructor for Legislature since 1971 for Nevada U.S. Special Operations Command’s Combating Terrorism Eagle Forum and the Independent . She is the founder, course. Janine Hansen publisher and editor of the Nevada Families Voter Guide Walt has appeared on numerous radio and television shows published every general election since 1988, and was the in the U.S. and Canada. Walt’s articles have been published Nevada Chairman of STOP E.R.A. from 1974-1978. online and his many books are a welcome resource in She is the State President of Nevada Families for Freedom understanding the issue. the State Affiliate of Eagle Forum and has been the editor Colleen Holcomb, J.D. is the Vice- of the Nevada Families/Eagle Forum monthly newsletter President of Government Relations of Eagle since 1974. She is also the Executive Director and National Forum. She graduated Magna Cum Laude Committeewoman of the Independent American Party of from Wellesley College and earned a law Nevada. degree from Regent Law School where she received the National Association of irsten asler is the Washington, K H Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Graduate D.C., Executive Director for Eagle Forum. Award. She also earned a Masters’ Degree in She is a graduate of Hillsdale College with Journalism from Regent University School Colleen Holcomb a Bachelor’s in Economics. Prior to joining of Communications and the Arts. Eagle Forum, Kirsten worked in Governor Scott Walker’s administration. Most recently, Colleen served in various government offices at the local, Kirsten was the Executive Assistant and state and federal levels, including work with the City of Scheduler for former Congressman Keith Lakewood, ’s Public Information Office and Municipal Court, with Massachusetts State Senator David P. Magnani’s irsten asler Rothfus, where she had an integral role in K H Office, and an internship in U.S. Senator Edward M. facilitating the Congressman’s agenda. Kennedy’s Education Committee office. Kirsten is an active member of her church and volunteers Colleen has been involved in the publication of articles at a in Northern Virginia. A native pertaining to legal and policy issues related to women in the of central Wisconsin, she currently resides in Arlington, workplace, the sexual exploitation of children, homosexual Virginia, with her husband and young son. marriage, adoption and the Federal Rules of Evidence. She Donna Hearne is Executive Director co-authored an article entitled “The Rise and Fall of Women’s of The Constitutional Coalition. She Rights: Have Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom Forfeited has a B.A. in Elementary Education Victory?” which was published in the Winter 2000 edition from Washington University,­ St. of William and Mary’s Journal of Women and the Law. Louis, and has taught in private and Colleen currently resides in Vienna, Virginia. public schools in Missouri. She is a onna ice ughes is President and former school board member. Hearne D R H CEO of Enough Is Enough®(EIE); was appointed by President Reagan as an internationally known one of two from the White House to onna earne D H safety expert; author; speaker; and represent him on America 2000, the predecessor of Goals film producer. Since 1994, she has 2000. America 2000 consisted of six governors, six Senators been a pioneering leader on the and two from the White House. Due to Chairman, then- frontlines of U.S. efforts to make the Governor Bill Clinton’s efforts, Goals 2000 replaced Internet safer for children and families America 2000. by implementing a three-pronged Donna Rice Hughes For the past 36 years, she has hosted a weekly radio , strategy of the public, the technology Encounter, on KSIV Radio in St. Louis. An avid researcher, industry and legal community sharing the responsibility to she has authored numerous publications and several books, protect children online. This strategy has been adopted by including In Our Backyard, the latest of which is: The Long industry and governments worldwide. War and Common Core, Everything You Need to Know to Win Under her leadership, EIE created the Internet Safety 101 the War! Program with U.S. Department Of Justice. She developed Donna and her husband, Mark (a retired high school and spearheaded the “National Safe Wi-Fi” Campaign” history teacher), live in St. Louis and calling on Corporate America to filter porn and child are parents to five grown children and on public Wi-Fi. Hughes also spearheaded grandparents to fifteen. EIE’s bi-partisan Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge (2016) which was signed by then Candidate Trump, Walt Heyer identified as a transgender and supported by ; The Governor’s Pledge woman for eight years and now has led by S.C. Governor McMaster and the State Attorneys a passion to help others who regret General Pledge co-led by AG Wilson (SC) and AG Racine gender change. Walt travels extensively (DC) are being rolled out nationally in 2020. She also to share his story of redemption at received a Senate appointment to serve on the Child Online

conferences, churches and universities. Walt Heyer Protection Act Commission. Dr. Paul Kengor is the Senior Alabama Policy Institute, and many others. Vanity Fair has Director and Chief Academic Fellow for The described Michael as “a dapper, lib-triggering troll.” Center for Vision & Values and Professor of David Limbaugh, brother of radio Political Science at Grove City College. He talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is holds a Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, an an expert in law and politics who M.A., The American University and a B.A., writes engaging columns from a fresh, University of Pittsburgh. conservative point of view. Kengor is a visiting fellow at the Hoover A native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Paul Kengor Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace he attended Southeast Missouri State at Stanford University, and is affiliated with The Center University from 1971 to 1972 and the for Strategic and International Studies, The Heritage University of Missouri for the next David Limbaugh Foundation, The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, and three years, where he graduated cum laude with a political the editorial board of Presidential Studies Quarterly, the science degree. David Limbaugh received his law degree academic publication on the presidency. from the University of Missouri Law School in 1978 and He is an internationally recognized authority on several was on the Missouri Law Review. He also served in the subjects, particularly , the Cold War and National Guard from 1972 to 1978. communism and is nationally known for work on the After finishing school, Limbaugh taught business law at American presidency. He is one of a select group of 58 Southeast Missouri State from 1977 to 1978 and has been presidential scholars to participate in C-SPAN’s prestigious, practicing law for 20 years. highly regarded ranking of American presidents in 2009, a follow up to C-SPAN’s popular 2000 survey. Since 1993, David Limbaugh has been on the board of trustees of the Southeast Missouri Hospital and is currently He has authored over a dozen books, most recently, The on its executive committee. He has also served as a member Divine Plan: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic of the Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects End of the Cold War with Robert Orlando. at Southeast Missouri State University. Kengor says of himself that he was a terrible student in David and Lisa Limbaugh have two daughters, Christen high school who barely graduated and probably should not and Courtney. have. He turned his life around quite dramatically once he became intensely interested in medicine in college — after Courtney Litvak is the Ambassador for Childproof America, having been barely accepted to a community college — and a non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding families then (more importantly) once he became a Christian. against sex trafficking. She was born in Katy, Texas in 1998 and excelled as one of the youngest varsity swimmers on Michael Knowles hosts The Michael the highly competitive swim team. She received local and Knowles Show at . state medals for her freestyle and backstroke races and was In 2017, he wrote the #1 national being recruited for Division 1 and other college swimming bestselling treatise Reasons To Vote For programs. Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide, which President hailed Courtney fell victim to human trafficking in her upscale as “a great book for your reading suburban community outside , Texas. After being enjoyment.” off the grid for several long and painful years, Courtney returned to her family who remained fully committed Before blank book fame, Michael Michael Knowles to supporting Courtney on her journey of recovery. She studied History and Italian Literature at Yale University, successfully completed an intensive, residential, faith-based graduating with honors. At Yale, Michael rendered the first- program for survivors where she received the trauma- ever translation for the English stage of political philosopher informed treatment that has helped her overcome her Niccolò Machiavelli’s play The Girl From Andros, which traumatic past. She readily credits the love and grace of Jesus Machiavelli scholar Angelo Capodivacca hailed as “a Christ for her physical, emotional and spiritual healing and watershed event for the English-speaking world.” restoration. Michael appears regularly on Fox & Friends, EWTN News She devotes her work fulltime to Childproof America, Nightly, and OANN Tipping Point, among other television and has successfully led peer-to-peer interventions with news programs. He has lectured at research institutes and vulnerable youth who are being pursued by traffickers and universities throughout the United States, including the collaborates with top legislators to help develop policy in University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, the state of Texas and across the United States. the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, Florida State University, the University of Alabama, Yeshiva Courtney embraces a mindset of victory and is fully University, Franciscan University of Steubenville, the committed to using her knowledge of human trafficking to cast a net of education and protesting the culturally-destructive textbooks in Kanawha prevention across the United (pron: Kuh-naw-uh) County, West Virginia. States. In 1976, she wrote Blackboard Tyranny, one of the first books Kelly Litvak founded to make a comprehensive critique of public education. In Childproof America in 2017 1980, she and Phyllis Schlafly were key organizers of the pro- and serves as the Executive family resistance to Jimmy Carter’s White House Conference Director. She has over ten years on Families, for which she received an Eagle Award from of experience as a non-profit Phyllis. During the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign, she Kelly & Courtney Litvak leader. She began her career in was Chair of the Family Policy Advisory Board, and during 2007 when she founded Tools 4 Life Books, an organization the first Reagan Administration she chaired the Advisory Panel serving incarcerated youth. The faith-basedTools 4 Teens on Financing Elementary and Secondary Education. She was book, authored by Mrs. Litvak segued into the Tools 4 Teens Executive Vice-President to at the Free Congress Program, supporting youth in detention centers and upon re- Foundation, and founder of the Family Protection Report. entry. Her programs resulted in a sharp decrease in recidivism Connie became a national spokesman for pro-family issues among her students. She serves on the Advisory Board for the during the 1980’s, being a regular conservative commentator Association for Missing and Exploited Children as their Vice on NPR’s “,” and a frequent guest on all the President of Rehabilitation. network shows. In 1986, she wrote Decent Exposure: How In 2016, her daughter was pursued by human traffickers to Teach Your Children About Sex, and then Can Motherhood in their suburban community and her family was forever Survive? in 1990. changed. The tragedy forced the family to recognize significant Since 1973, Connie has been married to Dr. William H. gaps in support services for parents with missing and exploited Marshner, a founding faculty member of Christendom children, leading to the formation of Childproof America, an College in Front Royal, Virginia. They have four children and organization dedicated to safeguarding families against sex ten grandchildren. Her current fun in life is becoming fluent trafficking. in Gaeilge (pron. Gale-guh), the Irish language. Mrs. Litvak holds a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Dr. Wilfred McClay is the G. T. Communications, with a concentration in Psychology from and Libby Blankenship Chair in the Ohio University. A college internship serving victims of History of Liberty at the University first sparked her interest in an at-risk of Oklahoma, and the Director of the population. Her deep compassion for hurting and vulnerable Center for the History of Liberty. His youth, combined with her own personal experience, are the book The Masterless: Self and Society in driving forces behind her fierce call to serve as an advocate for Modern America was awarded the Merle anti-human trafficking. Curti Award of the Organization of

In 2017 and 2018, Katy Magazine honored her as Top 100 American Historians for the best book Wilfred McClay Women of Katy. In December 2017, Katy Magazine named in American intellectual history. Among Mrs. Litvak Top 10 Outstanding Katy People of the Year. That his other books are A Student’s Guide to U.S. History, Religion following year she was honored as the Top 50 Most Giving Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America, Figures Moms in Katy. in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, Kelly and her college sweetheart, Alan, have called Katy home and Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in for nearly 25 years. They have two children, ages 18 and 21. Modern America. He was appointed in 2002 to membership on the National Connie Marshner is president of Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the Connie Marshner & Associates, a National Endowment for the Humanities, and served in that boutique fundraising consulting firm capacity for eleven years. He has been appointed to the U.S. which helps pro-family and pro-life Semiquincentennial Commission, which is planning events organizations to increase their donations for the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. by providing strategic marketing and fundraising services for nonprofit He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow organizations. For twelve years she has Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Academy of been a strategic partner with Dr. Charles Connie Marshner Kenny, the transformational thinker and Education. He is a graduate of St. John’s College (Annapolis) founder of Right Brain People. and received his Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University. She was a pioneer in the conservative movement’s education reform initiative as one of the founding staff of The Heritage Glyn (Wright) McKay recently accepted the invitation of Foundation in Washington, D. C. In 1973, she was its the Eagle Forum governing board to become one of its eleven Education Director when Heritage helped to advise the parent members. From 2011 to 2016, she served as the Eagle Forum Executive Director in the Washington Lynn has recently become involved D.C. office. She joins three other former in activism against Drag Queen Story Eagle Forum D.C. Executive Directors Hours at public libraries and helped to as members of the volunteer Board: start Ask Moms on Facebook to inform Susan Hirschmann, Kris Ullman, and and equip ordinary people everywhere Colleen Holcomb. Glyn is also a Field to stand against the sexualization of Director for . children. She is a second-generation eagle, She worked as a nurse in Neonatal crediting her passion for serving, Glyn McKay Intensive Care for 28 years. She enjoys Lynn Meagher defending and preserving the American tradition to the reading, writing, painting, knitting, and time with friends and influence of her grandmother, a member of Eagle Forum for her two cats, Kallie and Lulu. over 30 years. Michael Medved was born in She is a graduate of Baylor University and resides in Arlington, Philadelphia, but attended public schools in Texas, with her husband, and her two sons. and Los Angeles before starting Carolyn McLarty has been involved Yale at age 16 as a National Merit Scholar. He with Eagle Forum and Oklahoma Eagle majored in American History and graduated Forum for the past twenty years. She has with honors, before attending Yale Law served on the Eagle Forum National Board School, where his classmates included Bill of Directors since 2014 and is currently the and Hillary Clinton. Secretary of the Board. Her interests are in the Michael Medved Michael is host of The Michael Medved Show, political arena and she loves to find candidates America’s #1 Show on Pop Culture and Politics. that the EFPAC is proud to support. After several years as a campaign speechwriter and political Carolyn McLarty Carolyn is serving her third term as the consultant, Michael wrote his first bestseller at age 26—What Republican National Committeewoman for Oklahoma. She Really Happened To The Class Of ’65?, His subsequent 12 books was first elected in May of 2008 and was re-elected in May of include The Shadow Presidents, hailed as the definitive history 2012, and May of 2016. of White House chiefs of staff; Hollywood Vs. America, a Carolyn has served on several RNC Committees including stinging indictment of the entertainment industry; and Right the RNC Executive Committee and was Chairman of the Turns, which tells the story of Michael’s transformation from RNC Standing Resolutions Committee for four and a half “punk liberal activist to lovable conservative curmudgeon.” years. McLarty is also a founder and past Chairman of the The 10 Big Lies About America and The 5 Big Lies About Conservative Steering Committee, a Conservative Caucus of American Business, confront the most common smears against the RNC. the United States and its system. She was a Sub-Committee Co-Chair for Families, Education, The American Miracle: Divine Providence In The Rise Of The Health, and Crime at the National Platform Committee of Republic, describes a dozen astonishing incidents in which luck, nature or some higher power seemed to intervene on the 2012 and 2016 Republican National Conventions. behalf the young United States. In the book, Michael argues Carolyn is a retired veterinarian who practiced for over 30 that a “pattern of happy accidents” is still a pattern, and sides years. Carolyn began her political activism in the early 90’s with the Founders in seeing America as “fortune’s favorite” and with the Woodward County Republican Women’s Club and “destiny’s darling.” His latest book, God’s Hand on America: was the Chairman of the Woodward County Republicans Divine Providence in the Modern Era, has be referred to as “a when they became the majority Party in 2000. She has served hopeful message for our troubled time.” in many capacities in the Oklahoma GOP and as Chaplin Michael’s columns on politics and media appear frequently in and as Parliamentarian for the Oklahoma Federation of USA Today, where he is a member of the Board of Contributors. Republican Women. His work as a film critic, based on short-lived experience as a She and her husband Tom reside in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Hollywood screen writer, featured positions at CNN, Great They have three grown children, all Oklahoma State University Britain’s Channel 4 Network, and PBS where he served as co- graduates and are blessed to have four grandchildren. host of the popular weekly show Sneak Previews. He was also Chief Film Critic of the for five years before Lynn Meagher works as an advocate for parents of Rapid launching his daily radio show in 1996. Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) kids and as a spokesperson for the Kelsey Coalition. She feels honored to work with many Michael has been married for 33 years to clinical psychologist gifted and talented women through the Hands Across the Dr. Diane Medved, a bestselling author in her own right They Aisle coalition. Her story was told by the Christian Post titled, live in the area where they raised their three children. “I’ve lost two kids to the trans cult, I want them back: An Leslie Mironuck’s life journey has given him a unique anguished mom shares her journey,” by Brandon Showalter. perspective on America. He grew up in Canada, viewing the United States from afar. However, during those that they did not have the votes to confirm him in the Senate years he often visited his American relatives. confirmation. In 1986, he relocated to the USA, and made Puzder is a prolific author on economic and legal issues in St. Louis his home. He has since reconciled periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investors’ his various perspectives of America—as a Business Daily, Real Clear Politics, CNBC, The Hill,and the foreigner, as a frequent visitor, and finally Orange County Register, and frequently lecturers on economics as a permanent resident. His reconciliation and politics for various groups and associations as well as at process included a self-guided study of colleges and universities. Leslie Mironuck American history. By birth, Mr. Mironuck has dual citizenship: U.S. and Canada. He co-authored the book, Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn’t Understand It and authored The Spending his formative years in Canada, Mr. Mironuck has Capitalist Comeback: The Trump Boom and the Left’s Plot to always had a warm connection with Great Britain and its Stop It. monarchy. That, coupled with his strong American roots has enabled him to paint a neutral, non-biased image of the Puzder and his wife Dee live in Franklin, Tennessee and have historical events that motivated, shaped, and impacted the six children and six grandchildren. lives of the Founding Fathers. When his unique perspective Gayle Ruzicka is the president of Utah is combined with his study of original sourced material, the Eagle Forum and the President of Utah result is a valuable series for students, educators, and history Families. She has played a major role in buffs. the battle to protect traditional marriage Mr. Mironuck is much more interested in historical accuracy in Utah She has served on national than he is in political correctness. boards for home school organizations, He is the author of Irreconcilable Differences: Profiles of the pro-family organizations and been a Founding Fathers 1750-1776 (The American Patriots’ Series). leader in the pro-life movement in Utah. Gayle hosts a radio show and is Utah’s Gayle Ruzicka Andy Puzder is the former CEO of leading spokeswoman for pro-family, conservative causes. She CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. He has also served for many years in the Republican Party, as a earned a Juris Doctorate in 1978 from national, state and county delegate and precinct chairman. Washington University School of Law in Gayle is in demand as a speaker at conferences in the U.S. and St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as Canada on homeschool, political and educational issues. She Senior Editor on the Law Review. Puzder also teaches workshops on rearing and teaching children. has been a commercial trial lawyer in St. Louis, an associate at the law offices Gayle and her husband, Don, have 12 children and 46

of famed St. Louis attorney Morris A. Andy Puzder grandchildren, and she homeschooled for over 25 years. Shenker, and worked with Charles A. Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as Seigel, another renowned St. Louis area trial attorney. During White House Press Secretary for President this period, Puzder was involved in a number of high-profile Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A cases. trusted confidante of the President, Sarah In addition to practicing law in St. Louis, Puzder authored advised him on everything from press and legislation, which The United States Supreme Court upheld in communications strategy to personnel and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in 1989. Following policy. For two and a half years, Sarah was at the Webster decision, Puzder was a founding member of The the President’s side, battling with the media,

Common Ground Network for Life and Choice. Sarah Sanders working with lawmakers and CEOs, and Also while in St. Louis, Puzder met Carl N. Karcher, the accompanying the president on every foreign founder of the Carl’s Jr. quick-service restaurant chain who trip, including dozens of meetings with foreign leaders. Sarah asked him to move to California as his personal attorney. He is is only the third woman – and the very first mom – to ever credited with resolving Karcher’s financial dilemma, allowing hold the job of White House Press Secretary. Karcher to avoid bankruptcy and retain a significant ownership Upon her departure from the administration, President interest in the company he founded, CKE Restaurants. Puzder Trump described Sarah as “irreplaceable,” a “warrior” and became president and CEO of Hardee’s Food Systems and of “very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done CKE, and is credited with turning around both the Hardee’s an incredible job.” brand and CKE, allowing the company to survive, become An early supporter of President Trump, Sarah joined the financially secure, and return to growth. Trump campaign as a senior advisor in February 2016 during He was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the the Republican primary, and continued in that role through United States Secretary of Labor. However, he withdrew his the President’s defeat of Hillary Clinton, one of the greatest nomination after it became clear to Republican Senate leaders and most unexpected victories in American history. Sarah has previously worked in leadership roles for U.S. Phyllis Schlafly to speak in Birmingham. In Senators, governors, and presidential campaigns. In Arkansas, 1972, Eunie co-founded Alabama Stop ERA, Sarah was a senior advisor to Senator Tom Cotton in 2014 which she chaired for its 10-year existence. when he defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Mark She was a founder of Eagle Forum of Alabama Pryor, and was campaign manager for Senator John Boozman (1976) and is its longest serving President. in 2010 when he defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Eunie is the widow of former U.S. Blanche Lincoln. And in 2007 and 2008, Sarah helped lead Congressman Albert Lee Smith, Jr., the her father, former Arkansas Governor , to mother of three and grandmother of six. She victory in the Caucuses and seven other states as his Eunie Smith was singularly honored by Phyllis Schlafly in National Political Director. 2014 with the Eagle Forum Homemaker of the Year Award. Sarah has been recognized in TIME Magazine’s “40 under 40” as one of the best political operatives of her generation. She Jarrett Stepman a columnist for The is a Fox News contributor, advises major companies and non- Daily Signal, a multimedia publication profits, and previously served as campaign manager of the of , where ONE campaign, a global non-profit founded by U2’s Bono he writes about how American history to take action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, informs our present politics. He was a particularly in Africa. 2018 Lincoln Fellow for the Claremont Institute, and has appeared on Fox Sarah lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with her husband, Bryan, News, CNN, and the One America and their three children, Scarlett, Huck, and George. News Network. His columns have been Jarrett Stepman Evan Sayet was born in published by The Federalist, The American and went to school in Rochester, New York. Mind, RealClearPolitics, and Congressional Quarterly, among He would soon move out to Hollywood many other outlets. in order to pursue a career as a stand-up He co-host The Right Side of History . He is also the comedian, television writer, and eventually author of the new book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to video producer as well. However, post 9-11, Rewrite America’s Past. he rethought (or more accurately, thought Jarrett lives in Washington, D.C. about for the first time) his political and uzanne enker Evan Sayet social beliefs. Sayet recognized that he had S V is currently a columnist been acting as a knee-jerk liberal, but was, at the . She’s also a in reality, a conservative at heart. From that moment, he has contributor at The Federalist and a former dedicated himself to conserving and promoting the values of contributor at Fox News. Her 2012 article, the America that has given him freedom and allowed him to “The War on Men,” remains one of Fox News’ pursue his life of liberty and happiness. most read op-eds in history. He has become the nation’s leading conservative, political Suzanne’s work has appeared in publications comedian, an in-demand Master of Ceremony for Republican such as TIME, USA Today, Parents and the and conservative events, while at the same time writing the Suzanne Venker New York Post and has been featured in bestselling book, The KinderGarden Eden: How the Modern The Wall Street Journal, , The Atlantic, Forbes, The Liberal Thinks. Huffington Post and London’s Daily Mail. He has given numerous lectures on the same subject as his Her TV credits include Fox & Friends, Stossel, The View, book including one to the Heritage Foundation, to which CNN, ABC and more. She has appeared on hundreds of radio called the lecture, “One of the five most programs throughout the country, and her work has been important conservative speeches ever given.” Another was featured on “The Dr. Laura Program,” “The Late Show with given to the Conservative Forum, which has been recognized Stephen Colbert” and “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” She is a as the definitive explanation as to how and why the mainstream relationship coach and the author of five books on the ways media has gotten, literally every major story of the past six in which our culture undermines love and family. “It is my decades not just wrong, but as wrong as wrong can be. passion to help women avoid the pain and anguish that comes Sayet resides in Los Angeles, California. from following the feminist script.” Eunie Smith is the president of Eagle Forum. She has served on Suzanne says we’re masculinizing women to the point where the Eagle Forum Board since the Board’s inception in 1975 they have little access to their femininity, which is ultimately and as First Vice President since 1996 on Phyllis Schlafly’s what attracts men and what allows women to map out a recommendation. happy, contented life. Eunie is a cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University where We’ve also feminized men, which keeps them from asserting she was Vice-President of the Women’s Student Government their manhood—which is what women instinctively want. Association. As President of Pro-America (1970), she invited “Men and women think and behave differently for a reason. Without that understanding, it’s impossible to have a support military families, active and retired through military successful relationship.” ministry. Through coaching and speaking engagements, Suzanne She held executive level, management and/or leadership helps women and men find peace in their marriages and positions with Christian Leadership Alliance, The Navigators- relationships. Glen Eyrie, Missourians Against Human Cloning, and various law firms. She studied business administration and marketing Tabitha Walter is a graduate of at Colorado Christian University. Marshall University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education Julia and her husband reside in Colorado Springs. They have and a master’s in Political Science. During three married sons, five grandchildren, and two of the cutest her graduate studies, Tabitha worked with Westies, Lady Lily Joy and Sir William Wallace. the West Virginia State Legislature in the Lily Tang Williams was a Chinese House Education Committee. Afterward, she lawyer and law assistant professor, who worked on disability law with West Virginia became an American businesswoman Tabitha Walter Advocates. and liberty activist. Prior to her work with Eagle Forum, she was with Students for Born to illiterate working-class parents Life and where she handled issues of in China’s western Sichuan province just life, sexual risk avoidance, education, anti-human trafficking, before the Cultural Revolution, Lily Tang and anti-marijuana policies. She continues to work on those Williams directly witnessed Chairman issues and even more pro-family initiatives at Eagle Forum. Mao’s takeover and the horrors his Lily Tang Williams Julia Warton and her husband, George, regime inflicted. She grew up experiencing extremely poor formed Warton Consulting, LLC in living conditions, food rationing, political and social chaos 2009, working primarily with non- and, of course, Communist indoctrination. profit organizations as advisors in She learned to work hard, persevere, and be grateful for the public relations, marketing, non-profit opportunities she was given. Eventually, she graduated from organizational development, fundraising Fudan University in Shanghai with an undergraduate law and event production. Julia has created, degree. After graduation, she was selected to continue as part planned, organized and directed of the law school faculty, as well as practice corporate law in educational, inspirational, motivational, Julia Warton Shanghai as China began to rebuild its economy. political and restorative forums and events for groups of 10 In 1988, Lily Tang Williams decided to study in the U.S., to 10,000. leaving her position with only $100 in her pocket and $1200 Julia worked directly with Phyllis Schlafly and Eagle Forum in in debt to her American sponsor, a Fulbright professor at the the St. Louis office (1997-2005) in various capacities (radio, University of Texas at Austin. Though she could not speak administrative, newsletter), and as executive director. Upon English fluently she was determined to achieve success in her departure, she married and assumed a different role, this country, earning a Master’s degree in Administration and that of wife and mother. Since her departure in 2005, Julia Planning from the School of Social Work at the University of continued to volunteer and stay engaged with Phyllis, prior Texas at Austin. to her passing, and since to help Eagle Forum in numerous Subsequently, Lily started work for Wyoming Home Health as ways. She has continued to work with Donna Hearne and a medical social worker, and later she worked as an executive The Constitutional Coalition – a relationship that started and for corporations in both Hong Kong and the U.S. Eventually, continues since she began working with Eagle Forum in 1997 she went into business for herself, providing consulting services as the two organizations greatly complement each other well in international business and, with her husband, buying and to this day. managing residential real estate properties. In 2009, Julia was the executive director and co-founder of This experience in the American economy contrasted sharply Hope for the Home Front, a 501(c)3 organization serving with the Communist indoctrination she endured in China. military families of combat veterans. She spoke at conferences She became an avid student of Liberty, free market and free and in other public forums to advocate on behalf of military enterprise. Lily became a U.S. citizen and for the first time families focusing on the invisible wounds of war (Post in her life, she voted in 2000. In 2014, Lily ran for Colorado Traumatic Stress, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion State House District 44. In 2016, Lily was the candidate for Fatigue and Traumatic Brain Injury). She hosted restorative U.S. Senate in Colorado. retreats, seminars, public, military and healthcare forums around the country, addressing the impact of war on the Today, Lily continues to manage her own business, and family and the need for corporate, community, church, and relishes the freedom, independence, and prosperity she found government support. She also recruited and mentored teams in America. She loves her new country and travels frequently of young leaders for the purpose of further outreach, greater throughout the states to share the story of her American awareness, support and broader impact. She continues to Dream, defending the free speech and free enterprise, and promoting civil and economic liberties. She enjoys educating officer in the state’s Veterans of Foreign people about the reality of Communism, Socialism, China’s Wars Ladies’ Auxiliary. legal system and culture, women’s issues and educational During her time at American University reforms. She is an inspirational speaker to many people and in Washington, D.C., Zegers founded received very positive feedback from her audience. “Zegers Freedom Flags,” a small Kathy Wilmot began her professional woodworking business in Upstate New career as a certified public school teacher York. She and her father, Colonel Arthur in Nebraska. After spending a few years Zegers, who served our country in teaching in rural schools, she began Operation Iraqi Freedom and on the site Morgan Zegers employment with Bethphage Mission of 9/11, create handcrafted, wooden American flags. (www. (now Mosaic) as a Qualified Mental zegersfreedomflags.org) Retardation Professional (QMRP). Primary responsibilities included ~~~~~ evaluation of residential clients, chairing Kathy Wilmot the Interdisciplinary Team, writing Individual Program Plans, and monitoring progress. After working as Area Director for Mid-Nebraska Mental Retardation Services and Area Director of Bethphage Community Services in Texas, Kathy and her family returned to Nebraska. A change in professions occurred when Kathy was employed with the Kansas Department of Corrections at Norton Correctional Facility, a medium and minimum facility for 850 male offenders. As Staff Development Specialist, Wilmot developed the Orientation, Basic and Annual training for all staff employed at the facility. After serving in that capacity for 11 years, she was employed at the Accreditation Manager for the Stockton and Norton Correctional Facilities. In that capacity, she monitored compliance with federal and state statutes, compliance with Fire, Safety, Health and Environmental regulation and assisted the facility in achieving National Accreditation with the American Correctional Association. In the late 1980’s, Kathy became concerned about changes she observed in the educational system and placed a call for assistance – and the person who answered was Phyllis Schlafly! Upon Phyllis’ insistence, Kathy attended her first Educational Policy Conference held by Donna Hearne in St. Louis, Missouri, which has led to many years of political involvement, lobbying and speaking. In an attempt to make a difference for Nebraska’s school Educational Policy Conference 31 children, Wilmot ran for and was elected to the Nebraska State Board of Education where she served two terms. In recent Mission Statement years, Kathy has been lobbying and educating individuals and • To provide the antidotes to socialism and the Legislators on proposed legislation and issues of concern at the sexualization of our youth state and federal level. • To engage, equip, and enable all generations Kathy and her husband Wes reside on a small farm in Nebraska. They enjoy their three children and 10 grandchildren. (Generation X, Xennials, Millennials, Generation Y, Gen Next, iGen/Gen Z and Morgan Zegers is the founder of Young Americans Against Gen Alpha) with the godly wisdom, insights Socialism (yaas.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to and courage of the greatest generations, and educating and appealing to younger generations about the dangers of socialism. • To make it possible to be the wise, God- fearing, courageous leaders of the future by She is the daughter of U.S. Army Col. Arthur Zegers IV, an equipping their parents to fully control their Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. education. Zegers has been involved in politics since high school in upstate New York, where she became the youngest-known MUSIC

Bev Condray is a multi-talented entertainer and concert artist who has performed throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Taiwan and the Bahamas. She has appeared on many radio and television programs across the country and even gained legendary St. Louis KMOX’s Jack Carney’s accolades “She is a fantastic entertainer – has a lively wit, an ear for what pleases, stage presence to spare and personal warmth to go with it.” She is a native St. Louisan who received a B.A. majoring in organ and piano performance from William Woods University at Fulton, Missouri. She has a Master of Music from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is a gifted vocalist, pianist, organist, guitarist and ventriloquist. She is presently the Associate Accompanist at Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church and performs at numerous private parties.

Thanks to The Constitutional Coalition Staff and Volunteers: Sr. Staff Assistant/Education: Anne Gassel; Special Projects: Landreth Johnson and Susan Merrick; Booktable: Kathie and Curt Zuroweste, David Houser; Publicity Assistant: Julia Warton; Technical Assistants: Ron Stange; Timer: Sheryl Watts; Webmaster: J.P. Revel.

Additional volunteers: Carol Abbott, Ron Cawood, Renee Cody, Nancy Haines, Dan Hite & the St. Louis Teen Eagles, Ruby Ingram, the Johnson Family, Harry & Nina Langenberg, Robert & Sue Luedde, Todd & Julie Loos, Marilyn McCoy, Marty Merrick, David & Jill Pelsue, Janie Reifsteck, Student Eagles from Alabama and Tennessee, Kathie Thurston, Chriss White. Also thanks to the Book Club Ladies, the Right Girls and booktable “beasts of burden.” In Memoriam The Constitutional Coalition wishes to acknowledge the loss of two of our dear friends: Attorney John Tackes and Mick Sanders. Their absence will be felt this year. We have been blessed by the efforts and wisdom of Attorney John Tackes, who researched legislation for Front Line and our Court Watch feature. He was also an alternate M.C. and all around volunteer during several Educational Policy Conferences. Mick Sanders recently came onboard to help with our audio visual needs. His experience as a sound technician at Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church enabled him to be a great addition to our staff. We miss them both very much, but are comforted knowing that they are both sitting in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanks also to Eagle Forum for their partnership with The Constitutional Coalition for Educational Policy Conference 31 and Eagle Council XLIX.

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