Choose Life at Yale Presents...

The 3rd Annual

VITA ET VERITAS

Promoting a
Culture of
Life and Truth
October 2-3, 2015
Yale University
 2015 Conference Program

Conference Emcee: Matt Gerken, American Philanthropic

Friday, October 2:

6:30 p.m. Dinner Banquet at Yale Af-Am House, 211 Park Street
Catering by Festive Foods

7:00 p.m. Opening Remarks by Evy Behling and Elizabeth Tokarz,

Choose Life at Yale

7:30 p.m. The Race to Save Our Century

Keynote presented by Jason Jones

8:10 p.m. Remarks from St. Giannas Pregnancy Care Center

9:00 p.m. Advance Screening of VOICELESS

Linsly-Chittenden Hall room 101, 63 High Street

11:15 p.m. Q&A with Pat Necerato, Stuart Migdon, and Jason Jones
Director, executive producer, and co-producer of Voiceless

Harkness Tower, Yale

2015 Student Essay Contest Winners:

First Prize ($250): Miss Jessica Wu, Yale College Class of 2017
A Place for the Living
Second Prize ($100): Miss Sherry Ann Morgenstern, Yale College Class of 2019
Omelas
Third Prize ($50): Mr. Alexi Sargeant, Yale College Class of 2015
Dont Kill the Moon
 2015 Conference Program

Saturday, October 3:
All talks held in Lecture Hall of the Golden Center, 268 Park Street

8:30 a.m. Breakfast available in Golden Center Dining Hall

9:00 a.m. Aborting Aristotle

Dave Sterrett, Disruptive Truth

9:45 a.m. Womens Health in Global Perspective

Weronika Janzuk, World Youth Alliance

11:00 a.m. Converging Perspectives: an Interfaith Panel

Suzy Ismail, Center for Muslim Life
Kelsey Hazzard, Secular Pro-life
Cecily Routman, Jewish Pro-life Foundation
Matt Bennett, Christian Union
moderated by Katie Byrnes, St. Thomas More Chapel

12:30 p.m. Lunch from Panera Restaurant in Dining Hall

1:30 p.m. Embodied Equality

Erika Bachiochi, Massachusetts Bar

2:45 p.m. Beyond the Pep Rally: Pro-life Careers

Pauline Go, World Youth Alliance
Matt Bowman, Alliance Defending Freedom
Alexi Sargeant, First Things
moderated by Luke Foster, Elm Institute

4:15 p.m. Essay Contest Readings

5:00 p.m. Duty, Privilege, and Solidarity

Jason Jones, Movie to Movement
includes screening of short film, Crescendo

6:00 p.m. Closing Remarks by Elizabeth Tokarz and Evy Behling,

Choose Life at Yale

6:10 p.m. Post-Conference Pizza from Yorkside in Dining Hall

 2015 Speaker Biographies

Jason Jones, Movie to Movement

Jason Scott Jones is a film producer, author, activist, and human rights
worker. Jones was a producer on the 2006 film, Bella, which won
several film industry awards, most notably the Peoples Choice Award
at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Jason was the associate
producer of the 2008 film, The Stoning of Soraya M., which won the
NAACP Image Award in 2010 as well as the Los Angeles Film Festival
Audience Award in 2009. His short films include Eyes to See (2010) and
Crescendo (2011). He was producer in 2012 of the TV movie Mother
Marianne: Portrait of a Saint. He works directly to aid the homeless, peoples facing genocide,
and women with crisis pregnancies. He is president of Movie to Movement and the Human
Rights Education Organization (H.E.R.O.). He lives in Hawaii. The Race to Save Our Century is
his first book.

Dave Sterrett, Disruptive Truth

Dave Sterrett is the founder of Disruptive Truth, a non-profit organiza-
tion that disrupts culture with the truth of the Gospel. In the last de-
cade, Dave Sterrett has been a spokesman for some of the most innova-
tive Christian organizations that are reaching this generation. He is the
author or co-author of nine books, including the Christian best-seller
I Am Second (Thomas Nelson), Why Trust Jesus? (Moody Publishers),
Aborting Aristotle (St. Augustines Press), Is the Bible TrueReally?
(Moody Publishers), and the forthcoming book We Choose Life: Au-
thentic Stories, Movements of Hope (Hendrickson). Mr. Sterrett has been asked to speak at many
of the nations top colleges and universities.

Weronika Janzuk, World Youth Alliance

Weronika Janczuk is the Director of Education at the World Youth
Alliance (WYA). She is daughter to Polish immigrants, graduated from
New York University with a self-designed B.A. in the Philosophy of the
Human Person, sold novels as a literary agent for a few years, loves tea,
and splits her time day-to-day between WYAs Human Dignity Cur-
riculum (HDC) project, an alternate sexual education curriculum, and
FEMM, WYAs affiliate womens health program.

Suzy Ismail, Center for Muslim Life

Suzy Ismail is a Visiting Professor in the Communication Depart-
ment at DeVry University and Founder and Head Communication
Counselor at Cornerstone Counseling Center. She received a BA in
English, Communication and Middle Eastern Studies, an MA in Com-
munication and Information Studies, and was previously an Organi-
zational Communication doctoral student at Rutgers University. She
is the author of Modern Muslim Marriage, Nine to Five: Muslims
in the Western Workplace, When Muslim Marriage Fails: Divorce
Chronicles and Commentaries, and several other pending works. She provides family and
marriage counseling, career and diversity consulting, and speaks extensively on interfaith topics
of Islamic leadership and family life. Suzy resides in New Jersey with her husband of fourteen
years and her three children.
 2015 Speaker Biographies

Kelsey Hazzard, Secular Pro-Life

Kelsey Hazzard is the founder and president of Secular Pro-Life, which
brings together people of a wide variety of faiths and worldviews to
restore the right to life. She is a proud graduate of the University of Mi-
ami (B.A. 2009) and University of Virginia School of Law (J.D. 2012).
Following law school, Kelsey completed a year-long legal fellowship
with Americans United for Life. She now practices commercial litiga-
tion in her hometown of Naples, Florida.

Cecily Routman, Jewish Pro-Life Foundation

Cecily Routman is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She obtained her MSW
from the University of Pittsburgh. She founded the Jewish Pro-Life
Foundation in 2008. She is a member of Congregation Ahavath Achim,
a traditional synagogue located in Carnegie, PA, and resides in the
Pittsburgh area with her husband, Tom.

Matt Bennett, Christian Union

Matt Bennett is founder and CEO of Christian Union, a Christian
leadership development organization with the mission to bring sweep-
ing spiritual and cultural transformation to our nation and the world
by developing and networking Christian leaders to make an impact
for Christ. A native of Houston, Texas, Matt earned B.S. and M.B.A.
degrees from Cornell University and holds a Master of Divinity from
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He worked for Campus Crusade
for Christ (Cru) at Princeton University for 12 years, and developed the
ministry into one of the largest in the history of the Ivy League. In 2002, he founded Christian
Union with the strategy of developing Christian leaders in two spheres of influence: Firstly,
among students at the nations most influential secular universities, including all of the Ivy
League schools, and secondly, among working professionals in the nations most far-reaching
cities. The ministry has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, NPR, Christianity Today and
World Magazine. Mr. Bennett currently resides in New York City.

This years student conference attendees hail from:

Providence College, RI Harvard University, MA
Georgetown University, D.C. Princeton University, NJ
Grove City College, PA Anoka-Ramsey
Williams College, MA Commmunity College, MN
Columbia University, NY The University of Chicago, IL
Brown University, RI Yale University, CT
background: Saybrook College, Yale
 2015 Speaker Biographies

Erika Bachiochi, Massachusetts Bar

Erika Bachiochi holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law,
an M.A. from Boston College where she was a Bradley Fellow at the
Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, and a B.A. in Political
Science from Middlebury College. Bachiochi has published numerous
scholarly and popular articles as well as two books. Most notably, in
2011, Bachiochi published the highly-regarded Embodied Equality:
Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights, in the
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (2011). She is currently work-
ing on a book concerning rival feminisms and the Supreme Court.

Pauline Go, World Youth Alliance

Pauline Go was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Vancouver,
Canada for her university studies. She graduated from the University
of British Columbia with a Degree in Behavioral Neuroscience in May
2013. She was a research manager at the UBC Social Cognitive De-
velopment Laboratory prior to joining World Youth Alliance. She has
always been active in youth-related and socio-civic organizations and is
glad to be able to continue this work with WYA as the current Regional
Director of Operations for North America.

Matt Bowman, Alliance Defending Freedom

Matt Bowman serves as senior legal counsel with Alliance Defend-
ing Freedom, where he is a key member of the Center for Life. Since
joining Alliance Defending Freedom in 2006, Bowman has focused his
legal efforts on promoting a culture of life. He led the fight against the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that forces
employers to provide employees with healthcare coverage that includes
early abortion items and birth control in violation of their religious
convictions. He obtained the first preliminary injunction against that
mandate in July 2012 for a Colorado family business in Newland v. Sebelius. He also defends the
free speech of pro-life pregnancy centers and sidewalk advocates, including obtaining a victory
against a law targeting pro-life centers in Centro Tepeyac v. Montgomery County, Maryland.
Bowman earned his J.D. from Ave Maria School of Law, graduating summa cum laude in 2003.
He was commissioned as a Blackstone Fellow in 2001. He is admitted to the bar in Michigan,
the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits, and several federal district courts.

Alexi Sargeant, First Things

Alexi Sargeant hails from Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. He
majored in English and Theater Studies at Yale University, graduating
in 2015. His writings have appeared in the Yale Daily News, the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, and Imagine magazine, and his plays have been per-
formed in Philadelphia and at Yale. He currently works for First Things:
the Journal of Religion and Public Life, as the Junior Editorial Fellow.
 2015 Conference Sponsors
Christian Union
Christian Unions vision for changing culture requires reaching an especially influential
segment of the US population with the Gospel. The need is profound; the worldview of this
unreached people group affects us personally, shaping our economy, government, media,
and education. Christian Union focuses energy toward developing Christian leaders at
eight universities and select cities because of their extraordinary influence on our culture
and society.

St. Thomas More

Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale strives to create a home away from
home for students, faculty, alumni and staff. We seek to create a vibrant and welcom-
ing community through worship and service, provide opportunities for cultivating and
informed faith and spirituality, engaging in reflective discourse on faith and culture,
advancing the Churchs mission of promoting social justice and encouraging students to
participate in the Churchs global life and witness.

The Knights of Columbus

The Knights was formed to render financial aid to members and their families. Mutual aid
and assistance are offered to sick, disabled and needy members and their families. Social
and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members and their families through educa-
tional, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief and public relief works.

The Elm Institute

The Elm Institute is an academic initiative located in New Haven, Connecticut whose
mission is to maintain, develop, and transmit ideas and principles that are integral to pre-
paring young men and women for productive and conscientious lives. The institute raises
questions of deep human concern which cut across the traditional bounds of academic
disciplines.

Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom is a non-profit Christian legal organization dedicated to
keeping the door open for the spread of the Gospel and transforming the legal system to
fully protect religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family.

Movie to Movement
Movie to Movement supports the creators of quality films that cultivate a culture of life,
love and beauty. Some of their more notable shorts include Crescendo, Catch, and Sing a
Little Louder.

Lutherans for Life

Lutherans for Life is a faith-based initiative, focused in the Midwest, that equips Lutherans
to be Gospel-motivated leaders for life.

Students for Life of America

Students for Life of America is the only national pro-life organization dedicated to training
and equipping college, high school, medical, and law school students. It is also Americas
largest youth-based pro-life organization.

The Honorable James Buckley, Yale College Class of 1943

Mr. Richard Lee, Yale College Class of 2014

Thank you for your generous support.

Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) is an organization that provides a forum and community
for Yale students who oppose abortion. CLAY upholds the dignity of human life
through weekly meetings, discussions, campus outreach, special events, and other
educational initiatives. CLAY also provides support and educational resources for
women in crisis pregnancy situations on and around campus. All Yale students are
welcome to join. Contact chooselifeatyale@gmail.com for more information.
Choose Life at Yale
2015 Vita et Veritas Team:
Evelyn M. Behling, 2017
Elizabeth L. Tokarz, 2017
Courtney L. McEachon, 2015
Chelsea N. Samora, 2018
Anthony E. Tokman, 2016
E. Gabriel Ozuna, 2015
Eric M. DeVilliers, 2017
J. Alex Garland, 2017
Daniel J. Gordon, 2017
Jenna I. McGuire, 2018
Max D. Graham, 2018
Ryan M. Proctor, 2016
Ryan M. Goding, 2018
Thank you for attending Vita et Veritas 2015! Please keep checking
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