Rev. Edward Vitagliano is Executive Vice-President of American Family Association and American Family Radio. He has served in a number of capacities since joining AFA in 1996. Ed has been an awa...

Rev. Edward Vitagliano is Executive Vice-President of American Family Association and American Family Radio. He has served in a number of capacities since joining AFA in 1996. Ed has been an award-winning journalist for the American Family Association Journal, the monthly publication for AFA, and is a co-host on the radio program Today’s Issues, heard weekdays on the American Family Radio network. He has also helped produce a number of documentary films for AFA and American Family Studios. He has been in the pastorate since 1982. He is married and has two grown children and four grandchildren.

For over thirty years, Eddie James has performed comedy skits and improv on thousands of stages all over the world, acted in hundreds of short films and skits viewed by countless millions, and yet he...

For over thirty years, Eddie James has performed comedy skits and improv on thousands of stages all over the world, acted in hundreds of short films and skits viewed by countless millions, and yet he is still brought to tears almost every day when he gets letters and emails from fans far and wide describing the personal impact The Skit Guys’ skits and short films have had on others' lives. In addition to being one half of The Skit Guys, Eddie has co-authored over a dozen publications with Tommy Woodard, including their latest book about friendship, “Smells Like Bacon.” Eddie lives with his wife and two daughters in Sachse, Texas, and is a creative consultant and online pastor at his church.

Edward Andrews is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored thirty-eight books and coauthored and updated and expanded three books, as well as over 200 articles. He has written...

Edward Andrews is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored thirty-eight books and coauthored and updated and expanded three books, as well as over 200 articles. He has written books on over 12 different genres. Edward Andrews is a member of the speaking team for Christian Publishing House. He has penned fifty-five books.

Edward D. Andrews (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In additio...

Edward D. Andrews (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).

Edward “Ed” Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), and the newly released The U...

Edward “Ed” Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), and the newly released The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class (Portfolio). He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was a founding partner of Bain Capital, where he worked closely with his friend and colleague, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. In May of 2012, Conard published Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong. The book was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went on to become a New York Times top ten non-fiction bestseller. Because of the publicity surrounding the publication of his book, Conard was the tenth most searched author on Google in 2012. Since its publication, Mr. Conard has made over 100 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Kruger, Austen Goolsbee, and Jared Bernstein; journalists including Jon Stewart, Fareed Zakaria, Chris Hayes, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; and politicians such as Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Eliot Spitzer. Prior to Bain Capital, Conard worked for Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank that specialized in mergers and acquisitions, and Bain & Company, a management-consulting firm, where he led the firm’s industrial practice. Conard has a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Edward Retta is a professional cross cultural consultant who has worked in over 50 countries. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, leading global brands and government agencies including NASA, t...

Edward Retta is a professional cross cultural consultant who has worked in over 50 countries. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, leading global brands and government agencies including NASA, the USDOD, and the USDOS (pro-bono). He as lived and worked in Europe, South America and Africa. Edward is a native Dallasite and the former Vice Chairman for Hispanic Engagement for the Dallas Co. Republican Party. He was awarded by the DCRP as Republican Ambassador of the Year in 2018. Retta is one of the co-founders of the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, an advisor to the Texas A&M Hispanic Network and an advisor to the Hispanic Republican Club of North Texas. He was recognized as a “New Hispanic Leader” by Al Dia newspaper and the Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and as a “National Hispanic Leader” by the American Jewish Committee. Retta is a product of the DISD, a graduate of Texas A&M University, an honors graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and also studied at Oxford University in England. He attended International Leadership School in Wales, UK. He is a member of Park Cities Baptist Church and an active lay leader in the Hispanic ministry there. He once survived a ship wreck near Cape Horn.

Edward T. Welch, MDiv, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and faculty member at CCEF. He earned a PhD in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and has a Master of Divinity degree from...

Edward T. Welch, MDiv, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and faculty member at CCEF. He earned a PhD in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and has a Master of Divinity degree from Biblical Theological Seminary. Welch has been counseling for over forty years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. His biblical counseling books include Shame Interrupted, When People Are Big and God Is Small, Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave, Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness, Running Scared, A Small Book about a Big Problem, A Small Book for the Anxious Heart, A Small Book about Why We Hide, I Have a Psychiatric Diagnosis, Someone I Know Is Grieving, Fear Is Not a Sin, and The Humility Project for Men (and study guide).

Dr. Edwin Flores is currently the first vice-president of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Independent School District, the most improved urban public school district in the State of Texas. Well-k...

Dr. Edwin Flores is currently the first vice-president of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Independent School District, the most improved urban public school district in the State of Texas. Well-known as a conservative Republican, Dr. Flores is a driving force behind common sense, conservative policies that have made Dallas ISD the most talked about school district in Texas. Governor Abbott has pointed to the changes in Dallas ISD as the model to follow for school reform efforts statewide. Included in those common sense, conservative changes are: (1) evaluating teachers based, in part, on student outcomes and paying them based on their performance, (2) engaging in market competition by offering new school options for students and families, (3) expanding college and career readiness programs, and (4) turning around our lowest performance schools by paying our best teachers to teach at those schools. These practical, common sense, conservative solutions are the driving force improvements that, previously, were thought to be impossible. Dr. Flores was born and reared in Mexico City, Mexico, and is fully bilingual and bicultural. Dr. Flores was raised Roman Catholic by his Mexican father and American mother along with his three brothers. After completing high school at the American School in Mexico City, Dr. Flores earned his B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in Molecular Immunology at the age of 26. By the age of 30, Dr. Flores had also earned his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law. Dr. Flores is the managing partner and founder of the Intellectual Property law firm of Chalker Flores LLP, in Dallas-Fort Worth, where he focuses his practice on biotechnology patent law. For two consecutive years, Dr. Flores was selected by D Magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” for his work as an intellectual property attorney. Dr. Flores currently serves, or has served on, a number of local and national community boards including: SMU Tower Center, Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center, Dallas Assembly, Medical City Hospital Dallas community board, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, AIPAC National Council, International Leadership of Texas Charter School, Texas Leadership Forum, Licensing Executives Society, Teach for America Dallas-Fort Worth, KIPP-DFW, SMU Tate Lecture Series, Good Shepherd Episcopal School, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas Historical Society, and Southwestern Medical Foundation. Last year, Gov. Abbott appointed Dr. Flores to the Texas School Safety Center Board. From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Flores was appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Flores was also appointed to the prestigious Council of Councils of the NIH. Dr. Flores and his wife Jesica (also an attorney) have two children, a college graduate and a senior in college.

EJ Janik has worked for more than 30 years as a CPA and forensic accountant. Both professions require extreme detail--including solving business disputes and providing expert witness. EJ has been mar...

EJ Janik has worked for more than 30 years as a CPA and forensic accountant. Both professions require extreme detail--including solving business disputes and providing expert witness. EJ has been married to Leah for 42 years and has two grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren. He serves on nonprofit Christian boards and is actively involved with Dallas Theological Seminary.

Elaine Donnelly is president of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent, nonpartisan public policy organization that specializes in military/social issues. Founded in 1993, CMR advocates hig...

Elaine Donnelly is president of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent, nonpartisan public policy organization that specializes in military/social issues. Founded in 1993, CMR advocates high, single standards in all forms of military training and sound priorities in the making of military/social policies. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed Mrs. Donnelly to be a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) for a three-year term (1984–1986). In 1992, Pres. George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. She is the author of a chapter titled “Defending the Culture of the Military,” which was published by the Air Force University Press in the book Attitudes Are Not Free – Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces, released in May 2010 and now in its third printing. In May 2007 the Duke University Journal of Gender Law & Policy published her comprehensive, peer-reviewed article titled “Constructing the Co-Ed Military.” Mrs. Donnelly has published articles on military personnel issues in many newspapers and magazines nationwide, including the Washington Post, USA Today, the Boston Globe, Congressional Quarterly Researcher, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Times, the Naval Institute’s Proceedings, and Human Events, and has appeared on most network and cable network discussion programs. She is a contributor to National Review OPnline, the Breitbart website Big Peace, and CNSNews.com.

Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good has been a leader in the anti-sex trafficking movement since 2011. Her vision to end sexual exploitation led to the launch of The Foundation United (est. 2018; www.TheFo...

Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good has been a leader in the anti-sex trafficking movement since 2011. Her vision to end sexual exploitation led to the launch of The Foundation United (est. 2018; www.TheFoundationUnited.org), which collaboratively provides systemic change to eradicate sexual exploitation and addresses sexual abuse, the root cause of trafficking. Her experience from corporate America, to being an Area Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, to creating Real Talk, a systemic tool to protect and arm churches, has positioned her to awaken and bring freedom to individuals from all walks of life. Her passion exists for leaders of the global Church. She is the author of Groomed (Harper Collins, 2020) and recipient of the New York City Global Business Leader Award, SRQ Women of Influence Award, Tampa Bay Business Woman of the Year Award, and honored as one of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. She is also a featured speaker at the 2022 Global Strategy Forum in Austria.

Elizabeth Graham was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Rockhurst College there with a degree in philosophy and sociology. In 1994, Elizabeth moved to Houston, TX to pursue graduate stu...

Elizabeth Graham was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Rockhurst College there with a degree in philosophy and sociology. In 1994, Elizabeth moved to Houston, TX to pursue graduate studies in philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. While in graduate school, she volunteered for Texas Right to Life and developed a sense of urgency about the mission to protect innocent human life. She married Jim Graham in 1997 and temporarily returned to her background of retail management before accepting full time employment with Texas Right to Life in 1998. With her husband Jim, they have grown Texas Right to Life into the largest prolife organization in Texas with a staff of 25 and a membership of over 300,000 Texas households. Through Texas Right to Life’s Family Assistance Program, Elizabeth has advocated for and worked with hundreds of families whose ailing loved ones faced the withdrawal of medical treatment and the futility process at hospitals across Texas. She has also served women and families facing unplanned pregnancies. Texas Right to Life is the oldest, largest, and only statewide organization focusing on the defense and protection of innocent human life. We seek due process of law and equal protection of the law for all human beings from the moment of fertilization (including those whose lives have been manufactured via science in laboratories) until natural death and without regard to their age or physical and mental competence. Texas Right to Life’s purpose is the furtherance and implementation of our view of human life through legal, peaceful, and prayerful means.