"Together We Advocate" Conference 2026
This conference exists to equip believers (and nonbelievers) with the information and training needed for tactfully and lovingly engaging in conversations on a range of sensitive topics; such as euthanasia, abortion, and the human right to live. Its design is to offer a positive, prolife response to the issues faced by the vulnerable, minorities, and women in crisis; educate us on the procedures and effects surrounding these issues; and teach us about the value of life God has given every human. This conference will feature many Christian representatives, but it is not an explicitly Christian conference. We encourage parents to accompany minors under 15. Please use your discretion as a parent in determining your child's attendance.
- Lunch will be provided
Meet this year's speakers below!
Ryan Bomberger
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation
Ryan Bomberger is an award-winning creative professional, international public speaker, columnist, and author. He is Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, an organization dedicated to the idea that every human life has value and purpose.
“Conceived in rape but adopted in love,” Ryan grew up one of ten adopted children in a diverse family of fifteen.
Ryan’s work has been extensively featured in The New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC, Breitbart, ABC News, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Post, Newsweek, CNN, Townhall, EWTN, JET, LA Times, Yahoo News, World, and many more news outlets. He has been a keynote speaker at renowned locations including Harvard, Princeton, Columbia Law School, University of Notre Dame, Ireland’s Trinity College, March for Life DC, March for Life UK, Capitol Hill briefings, hundreds more. Ryan is dedicated, along with his amazing wife and four children, to building a culture that values life in all of its stages.
Annette Sosa-Rodriguez
Former Planned Parenthood Manager
Annette worked at Planned Parenthood in Chapel Hill North Carolina as the Health Center Manager. As the HCM, she was responsible for the day to day operations of the facility as well as she was cross trained to assist in various roles, including holding the ultrasound probe in position during ultrasound guided abortion procedures. Demanding work hours, emotional distress, and moral conflicts all began to wear down on Annette’s heart and demeanor and eventually drove her into alcoholism, tearing her family apart.
One day Annette found information placed on her car about And Then There Were None ProLife Outreach, a ministry founded by former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson. She wasn’t quite ready to leave that day but kept the information in her pocket. It wasn’t long before Annette reached out to ATTWN for help and became a Quitter on May 3rd of 2016.
She has since attended ATTWN’s healing program, restored her marriage and family, and worked tirelessly with Abby and her team to educate the prolife community about the deplorable things taking place inside these facilities and has shared her story in many written publications, at several national conferences, and on EWTN.
Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.
Senior Bioethicist, National Catholic Bioethics Center
Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. (better known as Father Tad) currently serves as Senior Ethicist at The National Catholic Bioethics Center. Fr. Tad is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He writes and speaks widely on bioethics and medical ethics. Since 2001, he has given several hundred presentations and invited lectures, and participated in debates and roundtables on contemporary bioethics throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has taught bioethics classes for seminarians at St. John’s Seminary in Boston, Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Weston, MA, Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
As an undergraduate Fr. Tad earned degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry, and did laboratory research on hormonal regulation of the immune response. He later earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters which are expressed in the brain. He worked for several years as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Father Tad studied for 5 years in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and in bioethics, examining the question of delayed ensoulment of the human embryo.
He writes a monthly newspaper column on bioethics that is nationally syndicated to more than 40 diocesan newspapers in the U.S., and which has also been carried by newspapers in England, Poland and Australia. He has testified before members of the Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Virginia and Oregon State Legislatures during deliberations over stem cell research and cloning. In 2020, he was appointed to the National Institutes of Health Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board. He has done commentaries for numerous media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, CNN International, ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and the New York Times.