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| Michael Geer |
- Michael Geer, PA Family Institute (click for bio)
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Michael Geer is the President of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, a research and education organization, that focuses on public policies and cultural trends that impact families.
Pennsylvania Family Institute lists nearly 40,000 Pennsylvania families as constituents, and is supported by private contributions from interested individuals, business, foundations and organizations.
Michael also serves as the volunteer President for Lancaster United for Life, a pro-life organization that has successfully fought to keep a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic out of Lancaster. He's on the board of the REACH Alliance, a school choice advocacy organization, and is a leader with Pennsylvanians Against Gambling Expansion
Prior to starting at the Pennsylvania Family Institute, Michael served for eight years at WPXI-TV, the NBC television affiliate in Pittsburgh, as Senior News Producer and for two years at the ABC News Washington bureau, working on the production staff of ABC World News Tonight and the original Nightline staff.
Michael holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Regent University, and a B.A. in American History from the University of Maryland.
He lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, is married and the father of five children.
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Deborah
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- Deborah Hamilton, Hamilton Strategies (click for bio)
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Deborah C. Hamilton is the president of Hamilton Strategies LLC and NewsGuests.com which are organizations that place conservatives into secular and Christian media to help the truth about pro-family issues to reach the public. She is also the spokesperson for the Pennsylvania for Marriage Coalition.
Deborah has over 25 years of public relations and marketing experience and has focused on conservative family policy issues in addition to working with Christian ministries to help spread the Gospel. Deborah produced the live, daily talk show for Salem Communications in Arizona, "Straight Talk Live", and has consulted with Salem's Philadelphia live talk show. Since 2002, she has hosted and produced "Heartbeat", a weekly, pro-life radio report across Pennsylvania that has aired for over two decades. She also produces various news reports and radio features that air on over 100 radio stations across the United States.
Deborah co-produced a series of pastors' events in Washington, D.C. for the 2005 Presidential Inauguration as well as aided in the launch of the PA Pastors' Network. Her clients include PA Family Institute, Let Freedom Ring, DiscoverChristianSchools.com, Exodus International and many other family-related policy councils across the nation.
Through Deborah's PR efforts clients have been featured on Hannity & Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Show, USA Today, the NY Times, CNN, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Bulletin, Salem Radio & American Family Radio Networks, to name a few.
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| Randy Wenger |
- Randy Wenger, Independence Law Center (click for bio)
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Randy Wenger, chief counsel for the Independence Law Center, specializes in public policy litigation. He has been involved in litigating the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the definition of marriage, gambling, and community decency. He has also written a number of Amicus Curie briefs in the area of homosexual marriage, homosexual adoption, and intelligent design. Much of his work has been done in conjunction with the Alliance Defense Fund. Mr. Wenger has practiced in numerous federal appellate and district courts around the county.
Mr. Wenger studied international business at Messiah College, graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and went on to get his law degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a partner at Boyle, Neblett & Wenger in Camp Hill. He is married to Tina Wenger and has five children.
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