Meet SPL’s Speakers
Below are SPL speakers available to give single presentations (defined as 2 hours or less, including Q&A). To learn about SPL’s full day in-depth dialogue training, click here.
SPL speakers offer flexible presentations adaptable to various audiences and contexts. All SPL speakers can talk about secular arguments against abortion, pro-life inclusivity, and dialogue across divides. Additionally, individual speakers often specialize in certain themes—see below for more information.
For general inquiries and speaker requests, contact us here:
Herb Geraghty
Chief Communications Officer
Bio
Herb Geraghty is an atheist pro-life activist and educator. As a non-traditional pro-lifer, Herb is particularly skilled at both bringing pro-choice people to the pro-life position and mobilizing pro-lifers to take action to defend the unborn.
Herb has several prepared keynotes available, but also thrives in live debates, panels, and extended Q&A sessions with tough questions and direct challenges. Herb brings a unique combination of strategic insight and personal conviction to every speaking engagement.
Herb is perhaps best known for being convicted under the FACE Act in 2023 following a non-violent direct action at a late-term abortion facility in Washington, D.C. After serving a year and a half in federal prison, Herb received a pardon from President Trump. Herb is available to speak powerfully about those experiences, as well as the broader implications of the FACE Act for peaceful pro-life advocacy in the United States.
Shared Themes
Secular arguments against abortion, pro-life inclusivity, and dialogue across divides
Specialized Themes
Prenatal justice, confronting institutional power, navigating pro-choice social circles, mobilizing pro-lifers, nonviolent advocacy
Presentations
- A Secular Case Against Abortion: Discussing bodily rights, biological humanity, and philosophical personhood from a secular perspective.
- Building Bridges: Strategies for connecting with pro-choice and pro-life people who are different from ourselves.
- How to Be Pro-Life: Providing practical ways that everyone can get involved in the movement to defend unborn lives.
Additional Topics of Expertise
- How to reach people who are different from you
- How to work with people who are different from you
- How to talk about abortion in a way that is accessible to secular and progressive audiences
- How everyone can join the movement to defend unborn life
- The violence of various methods of abortion
- The reality of later abortion
- Fetal tissue trafficking
- The science of when life begins
Whether addressing a secular audience at a liberal university or a conference hall filled with Christians and conservatives, Herb’s goal is always the same: to awaken people to the violence of abortion, equip them with the tools to make an impact, and move them off the sidelines and into the fight.
Monica Snyder
Executive Director
Bio
Monica Snyder is an atheist with a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in forensic science from UC Davis.She takes a particular interest in research related to the abortion debate and enjoys breaking down data to make sense of complex issues. Monica has also lived much of her adult life in secular, urban parts of California, surrounded by mostly pro-choice peers, and is passionate about fostering friendships across ideological lines.
As a mother to four living children and two lost to miscarriage, Monica speaks openly and compassionately about pregnancy, reproductive grief, and the realities of parenting.
Monica’s background has prepared her to communicate complicated ideas to diverse audiences. She’s also very extroverted and loves speaking in front of people.
Shared Themes
Secular arguments against abortion, pro-life inclusivity, and dialogue across divides
Specialized Themes
Academic analysis, myth-busting, reproductive grief, interfaith coalition building, cross-ideological bridge building, dialogue techniques
Presentations
Monica has several go-to presentations which have all gotten rave reviews:
- Building Bridges: Strategies for connecting with pro-choice and pro-life people who are different from ourselves.
- Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths: Extensive citations explaining how these persistent ideas are inaccurate.
- Overlooked Findings of the Turnaway Study: A detailed overview of the study results that undermine pro-abortion narratives.
She has also created custom presentations for specific audiences and events that could be adapted and presented again:
- Why Abortion Is Immoral: Blending embryology, neuroscience, and philosophical caution to ask: when is it really safe to say life doesn’t matter?
- Secular Post-Abortion Healing: A guide for clinicians and caregivers navigating grief in a pluralistic culture.
- Don’t Feed The Trolls: An entertaining yet practical roadmap to meaningful online discourse.
Michelle Buenrostro
Communications
Bio
Michelle Buenrostro is an atheist, molecular biology student, and mother. She is fluent in both English and Spanish. She has been volunteering with Secular Pro-Life since 2018 and came on staff in 2024. Formerly pro-choice, Michelle has been pro-life since she became pregnant in high school and others pressured her to abort. She refused, but the experience moved her from seeing abortion as a necessary option to a violation shaped by social expectations.
Michelle is especially passionate about supporting women facing unplanned pregnancies, and she’s interested in how public policy affects vulnerable populations. Her background equips her to speak clearly and compassionately on abortion-related issues, especially where they intersect with race, class, and culture. She brings warmth, insight, and a grounded perspective to her communication.
Shared Themes
Secular arguments against abortion, pro-life inclusivity, and dialogue across divides
Specialized Themes
Coerced and unwanted abortion, pro-choice to pro-life conversion, abortion and ableism, reproductive loss, Hispanic/Latino outreach
Presentations
Michelle can present on the following topics:
- When You’re Supposed To Abort and Don’t: How teen pregnancy, cultural pressure, and resilience started my pro-life advocacy.
- Soy Latina y Pro-Vida: Why Representation in the Movement Matters: Amplifying voices for broader pro-life outreach.
- “Just Get An Abortion”: the Quiet Coercion Behind “Reproductive Freedom”: How destigmatized abortion increases the cultural pressure to abort.
- Reproductive Justice Without Abortion: Pursuing justice where values align, despite ethical disagreement on abortion.
Michelle can also create custom presentations or bilingual resources tailored for specific groups and events.
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