GLORIA PURVIS

Pro-life and whole-life,  @iamgloriapurvis is a public speaker and radio host. She is the leading Catholic voice on racial justice and the pro-life movement, connecting our understanding of the dignity of the human person to the issues of racism and abortion. She is dedicated to promoting the dignity of human life, marriage, and creating a just society for all. 

Francis cabildo

@franciscabildomusic is a singer-songwriter, worship leader and speaker from Southern California. He is passionate about loving God, family and the people of God. Francis has served the Church as a youth minister, music minister, high school campus minister and inspiring speaker. He and his wife Nicole are raising 5 boys and he serves as the Director of Worship at USC Caruso Catholic Center. 





Mari pablo
Mari Pablo is a proud Hispanic from Miami, Florida. She holds degrees in theology and psychology from Franciscan University, and received her master’s degree in theology from the Augustine Institute. Mari has worked in youth ministry for over fifteen years, both as a youth minister and theology teacher. Mari is well known for her dynamic presentations at the annual Steubenville Youth Conferences and other national outlets. Mari is a presenter for Ascension presents, and most recently in Connected- Catholic Social Teaching for this generation. Mari has a deep love for food but an even greater love for Christ and is dedicated to helping others encounter Him.


Christopher duffley
When he was born, Christopher weighed 1 lb 12 oz, due to drug exposure.  After five months in the NICU, he was placed in foster care.  His biological aunt located him, brought him to NH and later adopted him into her family of 6.  A new life lay ahead and his challenges of total blindness and severe delays would forever be a part his future. 
Sometimes we lose sight of our potential and the potential of those around us. 

Christopher removes the limitation blinders of his audiences through story, laughter, and song.  He teaches us, through his own life experiences, what it means to be unlimited and
                                                            to have a mission possible attitude.  


Susan burton
Susan Burton is an inspirational, transformational leader who founded A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) in Los Angeles in 1998. ANWOL’s approach to reentry is internationally recognized as an innovative model that creates welcoming, healing spaces for women to rejoin their communities after incarceration while developing as leaders to work toward liberation.

A formerly incarcerated Black woman, Ms. Burton is a leader in the movement to reform the criminal legal system, a founding steering committee member of the Formerly    
 Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM),  and an outspoken
                                                            voice to end mass incarceration.



Sarah kroger
Sarah Kroger is a worship leader and songwriter. She has been leading worship at a
range of national and international events for the past ten years. Her passion is to
create a safe, prayerful space through her music in which people can encounter the
love of God. She has released three albums, 'Your Time’, 'Hallelujah Is Our Song’, and ‘Bloom’. Her fourth album is set to release early Fall of 2020. Sarah lives in Nashville, TN with her husband, Dom.


                                                                       

Deacon Ed Shoener
Ed Shoener was ordained a permanent deacon in 2004 and serves at St. Peter’s Cathedral in the Diocese of Scranton. Shoener is a founding member of the Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers and the Catholic Institute of Mental Health Ministry at the University of San Diego. He serves on the Council on Mental Illness of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability and on the Board of Pathways to Promise, an interfaith cooperative that facilitates the faith community’s work in reaching out to those with mental illnesses and their families. Deacon Shoener, along with Bishop John Dolan, is coauthor of the books Responding to Suicide: A Pastoral Handbook for Catholic Leaders and When a Loved One Dies by Suicide (Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN).

                                                            He, along with family and friends, founded “The Katie Foundation” after his daughter,  
                                                            Kathleen, died by suicide in 2016. Katie’s obituary went viral because it spoke to the
                                                            needs and concerns of people who live with mental illness. He lives with his family in  
                                                            Scranton, Pennsylvania