Erik Whittington was born in Illinois and first began his secular music career in Portland, Oregon where he converted to the pro-life truth through a Life Chain pro-life visibility event. After converting to Christianity, he decided to give in to God’s call to defend the innocent (Proverbs 24:11). After making noise for the pro-life movement in Portland, he joined Rock …
Michele grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Hood College after studying Elementary and Special Education. As a sophomore in high school, Michele chose the topic of abortion for a project in her speech class. Through research for the assignment, she learned the heart-breaking truth about abortion and knew immediately that she was pro-life. However, with nowhere to really …
Mary Briganti is from Omaha, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a Bachelor’s of Science in Communication and a minor in Nonprofit Management. She became passionately pro-life her freshman year in college when she revived Mavericks Students for Life on her campus. Mary’s involvement with SFLA started in 2015 with the revival of her campus’s Students for Life group …
Reagan Barklage grew up all over the United States, as an Air Force brat, and graduated from the University of Missouri after studying Journalism. From a young age, Reagan remembers her family praying outside of abortion facilities. A few years later, she was exposed to the graphic truth of abortion by stumbling upon a diagram of a partial-birth abortion and experienced a gut-wrenching passion to respond. During her …
Kristi Hamrick grew up in towns across Pennsylvania and Iowa before graduating from Anderson University with departmental honors in Communications and cum laude, paying her way through school, working as editor of her college newspaper and part-time as a journalist, as well as winning a prestigious Pulliam Fellowship after graduation. She has a degree in Mass Communications & Journalism with …
Richard Crum is the chair of the SFLA Board and an experienced payments, financial services and B2B SaaS executive with over 30 years of professional experience. Richard has been a member of the Board since 2017. He is a catechist in his parish and has also been involved with other educational and religious non-profits. He and his wife have eight …
Tina Whittington grew up in a secular pro-choice home in Portland, Oregon. She received her Associates Degree from Portland Community College, and then got married and moved 3,000 miles across the country to Virginia in order to follow her pro-life calling with Rock for Life. In junior high school, Tina had a conversion experience and was baptized into the church. It was during her time in the …
Kristan Hawkins is a Christian, wife, mother, grassroots activist, author, speaker, Podcast host and a human rights advocate. President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, she was recruited in 2006 to launch Students for Life of America’s full-time operation. Since then, she has built up a small organization made up of a few dozen student groups scattered around the country to a coordinated national team that serves 1,200+ Students for Life chapters in all fifty states and has trained over 100,000 young people.