Michael P. Farris is a litigator, educator, public advocate, and communicator, and is widely recognized for his successful work on both the national and international stage.

He was founding president of both the Home School Legal Defense Association (1983) and Patrick Henry College (2000). He served as the President and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom from 2017 to 2022. In “semi-retirement,” he serves as General Counsel to the National Religious Broadcasters and consults with the Convention of States Project.

For over 40 years, Farris has practiced constitutional appellate litigation specializing in religious freedom and parental rights. In that capacity, he has argued before the appellate courts of thirteen states, eight federal circuit courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mike was CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom while ADF served as co-counsel to the Attorney General of Mississippi for the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health which reversed Roe v. Wade.

For his work in homeschooling, Farris was named one of the Top 100 Faces in Education of the 20th Century by Education Week. He has also been recognized with lifetime achievement awards by the Heritage Foundation, the Family Foundation of Virginia, the Florida Family Policy Council, the Convention of States Project, the Association of Classical Christian Schools, and has received two honorary doctorates.

Farris is the author of over fifteen books, as well as law review and other scholarly and popular articles. He and his wife, Vickie, have ten children, many grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Daniel Geraci is the Founder and CEO of United in Crisis, a training organization focused on uniting and equipping churches around the globe to form local crisis response church networks that meet the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of survivors.

Previously, as the Founder and Executive Director of the Austin Disaster Relief Network for fourteen years, Daniel led the effort to assist hundreds of thousands of disaster survivors, train over 20,000 volunteers, raise more than $22 million to help affected families, and help launch several church networks amid crises. He has provided assistance and training to churches and cities in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, in Moore, Okla., in the aftermath of an F5 tornado and the Texas Hill Country floods in 2018, to name a few. In total, he helped to launch a church network in nine cities during times of crisis.

Geraci released his debut book, United in Crisis: A True Story of God's Miraculous Power Working Through a United Network of Churches, in May 2024. He lives in Odessa, Missouri with his wife Allison and two daughters. He enjoys spending time with family, hiking, hunting, and camping.