Pro-Life Speakers

Contact Arizona Right to Life if you would like to request a speaker to give a presentation on a pro-life topic.  We can recommend speakers to cover topics of your interest:

• Pregnancy counseling
• Post-abortion healing
• Abortion law and history
• Planned Parenthood
• Euthanasia and assisted suicide
• Abortion methods and culture
• Stem Cell Research
• Motivate young people and winning the debate

Brooke Burns: Brooke Burns is a dynamic speaker whose personality instantly connects with her audiences. Her authentic joy and genuine concern for humanity inspire people to not only listen but to become active in the restoration of human dignity. She recently spent 14 months in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she served the poorest of the poor though Hearts Home. Currently, she is the Educational Projects Director for the Foundation for Life and Love as well as a leader in Phoenix Pure Fashion where she leads high school girls closer to Christ by revealing their true dignity as daughters of the Greatest Designer, God Himself. Brooke is also a featured author in the book I Choose God.

John J. Jakubczyk: John J. Jakubczyk is a past president of Arizona Right to Life. He has been active in the pro-life movement since 1975. An attorney in private practice for over 31 years, John has represented pro-life individuals and organizations, defended sidewalk counselors and activists, and advocated for women exploited by abortion profiteers. John currently serves on the Board of Directors. He has spoken throughout the nation over the last 30 years on a variety of pro-life and family related subjects. He has assisted in the drafting and enactment of legislation in Arizona and elsewhere. Past president of Arizona Right to Life, founder of Southwest Life and Law Center, and Life Educational Corporation, he currently advises various leaders and boards of national pro-life organizations. He is an active Roman Catholic and 4th Degree Knight of Columbus. He has experience and wisdom in assembling, equipping, motivating and growing a local chapter for significant community impact. John is also well versed on end-of life issues and debated Jack Kevorkian’s attorney at ASU years ago. John and his wife Petra are parents to eleven (11) children and four grandchildren.  John is currently president of Life Educational Corporation.  View John’s blog.

Melanie Prichard: Melanie is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Life and Love. She previously was the Education Director for Life Ed. Corp., speaking on behalf of Arizona Right to Life. She has spoken nationwide to thousands of people at many churches, schools and organizations about modesty, chastity, pro-life issues, and marriage. Melanie is currently the virtue speaker for Phoenix Pure Fashion, a speaker for the Diocese of Phoenix God’s Plan for Marriage Program, a speaker for Steubenville Youth Conferences, and a board member for Phoenix Natural Family Planning. To help people send positive and pro-life messages with their clothing, she created a clothing line called “Refuge Clothing Co.” . In 2010, The Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix honored her with the “Evangelium Vitae Award.” In addition, in March 2007, the Phoenix Business Journal honored her with “The 40 Most Successful People Under 40 Award”. She has starred in two national commercials that promoted the value of life and the sanctity of marriage, has spoken on several radio stations, is a featured author in the book I Choose God, and has written her own book called, The Day I Died about her survival after suffering an amniotic fluid embolism.

Read about Melanie in The Catholic Sun

Mary Patterson: Not too long ago, Mary Patterson had a vision for uniting Arizona Teens under the pro-life banner, with programs, education, outreach, and activism activities designed specifically for their age group. She partnered with Arizona Right to Life to found AZTeens4Life. Still in its first year, AZTeens4Life unites hundreds of students from around the state and offers training, events, newsletters, and more. Mary is an enthusiastic speaker who would love to help encourage your group of young-people who seek to know more about life issues and about increasing their involvement.

Karen Williams Karen Williams presents on behalf of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a nationwide effort to reach post abortive women and men in order to offer them healing from the pain associated with abortion. Karen grew up in Southeastern Michigan and received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Michigan State University in 1988. Karen has been married to her husband Ron for 19 years and together they raise two beautiful sons, age 18 & 13. Karen and Ron founded Catholic Edition, an online website portal for Catholic news and information. Karen has returned to graduate school to earn a Masters in Professional Counseling. She hopes one day to start a practice that provides mental and spiritual healing for post abortive men and women and recovery for those who suffer from substance abuse. Karen is currently involved in a sidewalk counseling ministry where she and her collaborators bring the message of hope and health to young men and women facing the challenges of a society that increasingly demeans our human dignity. Her greatest joys in life are God, family and service. The Williams Family resides in Phoenix and are members at Our Lady of Joy Catholic Church in Carefree.