Conference schedule
\\Friday, October 18
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM -- 40 Days for Life Vigil with Wolf Pack for Life
outside the Women’s Health Care Center on General Pershing St.
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM -- Create | Encounter art show & release party
Audubon Room, Danna Student Center
\\Saturday, October 19
8:00 AM -- Registration opens
9:15 - 10:00 AM -- Keynote 1: On Dehumanizing Language
Herb Geraghty, Rehumanize International
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from 10:15 AM - 12 Noon choose either 1 workshop or 2 breakouts
10:15 - 11:45 AM -- Workshop 1: ISO Secular Abortion Recovery Resources
Kelsey Hazzard, Secular Pro-Life
Michaelene Fredenburg, Abortion Changes You
10:15 - 11:00 AM -- Breakout Session 1
A: Where Did I Leave My Shield?
Kara Wiggins, suicide prevention speaker
B: A Post-Abortive Sibling’s Testimony
Krista Corbello, Rehumanize International
C: Confronting Violence Against Indigenous Peoples
Jennifer Reeser
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11:15 - 12:00 PM -- Breakout Session 2
D: Building a Whole Life Culture in Louisiana
Rep. Katrina Jackson (D) - LA state representative
E: Grassroots Organizing 101
Greta Zarro, World Beyond War
F: Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Violence
Aimee Murphy, Rehumanize International
FORUM: Preventing Burnout: Self-Care for Activists
Alex Lucas
12:00 - 1:00 PM -- LUNCH & service project
1:00 - 2:00 PM -- Keynote 2: Leaving Violent Institutions
Thad Crouch, Veterans for Peace
Jerry Givens, former VA executioner
Toni Turner, former abortion clinic worker
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from 2:15 - 3:10 PM choose either 1 workshop or 1 breakout
2:15 - 3:10 PM -- Workshop 2: Equipping the Church to Uphold Life
Kandi Patterson, NOLA Embrace Grace
2:15 - 3:00 PM -- Breakout Session 3
G: Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, & the CLE
Rachel MacNair, Consistent Life Network
H: Secular Case Against Abortion
Kelsey Hazzard, Secular Pro-Life
I: Rehumanizing Immigrants & Refugees
Deacon Martin Gutierrez, Catholic Charities of NOLA
FORUM: Voting & Politics
Alex Seghers, Louisiana Right to Life
3:15 - 4:15 PM -- Keynote 3: Abortion Survivors Speak Out
Claire Culwell, abortion survivor
Josiah Presley, abortion survivor
4:15 - 4:40 PM -- Networking break
4:45 - 5:30 PM -- Keynote 4: I Survived Death Row
Shareef Cousin, Witness to Innocence death row survivor
5:45 - 8:00 PM -- Dinner on your own
8:30 - 9:00 PM -- Vigil for Victims of Ableism (for Disability Rights)
\\Sunday, October 20
8:30 AM - Registration & tables open
9:30 - 10:30 AM -- Keynote 5: Countering Ableism in Medicine
Sarah Terzo, Consistent Life Network & PLAGAL
Sophie Trist, Wolfpack for Life
Jamie Duplechine, Ms. Wheelchair Louisiana USA 2016-17
John “Frank” Stephens, Global messenger, Special Olympics
from 10:45 - 11:45 AM choose either 1 workshop or 1 breakout
10:45 - 11:45 AM -- Workshop 3: Working with Incarcerated People
for Justice Reform
Miea Walker, Forward Justice
Shareef Cousin, Witness to Innocence
10:45 - 11:30 AM -- Breakout Session 4
J: Restorative Justice After Abortion
Catherine Glenn Foster, Americans United for Life
Aimee Murphy, Rehumanize International
K: Solidarity with Stateless Peoples
Jason Jones
L: Ending Violence Against LGBT People
Alice Lee, LGBT advocate
FORUM: Disability Inclusion
Sophie Trist, Wolf Pack for Life
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM -- LUNCH on your own
1:00 - 2:00 PM -- Keynote 6: The Road We Tread:
Slavery, Race, and Restorative Justice
Ismail Smith-Wade-El
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from 2:15 - 4:00 PM choose either 1 workshop or 2 breakouts
2:15 - 3:45 PM -- Workshop 4: Rehumanizing Art
Maria Oswalt, Rehumanize International
2:15 - 3:00 PM -- Breakout Session 5
M: Overlooked: Women and Incarceration
Miea Walker, Forward Justice
N: The Revolution: 100 Years of Pro-Life Feminism
Deanna Wallace
O: Guantanamo and the History of U.S. Torture
Marie Meza, Witness Against Torture
FORUM: Protests, Marches, and Nonviolent Actions
TJ Burgess, National Men for Life
3:15 - 4:00 PM -- Breakout Session 6
P: Apocalypse Never: Why We Must Reject Nuclear Weapons
John Whitehead, Consistent Life Network
Q: Embryo Rights Beyond Abortion
Herb Geraghty, Rehumanize International
R: Assisted Suicide and Ableism
Diane Coleman, Not Dead Yet
FORUM: Women in the Movement
Madison Tuck, Wolf Pack for Life
Sophie Trist, Wolf Pack for Life