Meet Michelle, Our Communications Intern
Secular Pro-Life exists because of volunteers.
In 2009, SPL began as a work of heart for our founder (Kelsey), myself, and a select few others. Today our organization benefits from the knowledge, time, and talents of dozens of volunteers, which is why, despite our shoestring budget, our content is viewed over a million times per month!
Our volunteer opportunities not only improve the quantity and quality of SPL content, but also help us connect to passionate pro-lifers and build relationships that lead to greater opportunity. Our announcement today is a perfect example.
Since October 2023, we’ve been developing a program to transition young activists into formal roles in the pro-life movement. Last month, we launched the Secular Pro-Life Communications Internship and are thrilled to announce that Michelle Buenrostro, one of our top volunteers, is our inaugural intern.
Meet Michelle Buenrostro.
I met Michelle in 2018 when she introduced herself as a fellow pro-life atheist at the Let There Be Life conference at UC Berkeley. I learned that she’d already been following SPL for years.
An atheist since middle school, Michelle became pro-life when she experienced pregnancy in high school. People pressured her to abort her daughter, and she refused. She started to recognize the pervasive pro-abortion culture around her, instead of a much needed family-friendly one.
However, as a young, queer atheist, Michelle felt there wasn’t a place for her in the pro-life movement. That was until 2013, when online friends introduced her to Secular Pro-Life. Since then she’s helped SPL many times over: guest blogging, repping us at marches and protests, tabling at conferences, and recently helping me create TikToks (see here, here, or here).
Michelle is a natural choice for our communications internship. She has ample experience navigating social circles as a non-traditional pro-lifer. She’s a science lover, in the midst of earning her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology. She enjoys philosophy and pondering bioethical dilemmas. And, importantly, she loves Secular Pro-Life and is eager to see us thrive.
Thank you for helping launch this internship.
If you gave to either our 2023 Giving Tuesday campaign or 2023 End-of-Year campaign, this internship is one of the specific projects you helped fund. Thank you, thank you. If you’d like to increase the longevity of the position, you can do so here:
If you appreciate our work and would like to help, one of the most effective ways to do so is to become a monthly donor. You can also give a one time donation here or volunteer with us here.
