Our Team

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Terry Beatley is the author of What If We’ve Been Wrong? Keeping my promise to America’s “Abortion King.” In a rare interview in 2009, Terry accepted the pro-life mantle of Dr. Bernard Nathanson, cofounder of NARAL. She promised to arm Americans with the truth of how he deceived America with the lie that abortion is healthcare. Terry is president of Hosea Initiative, a 501(c)(3) educational organization, focused on changing hearts and minds about abortion by bringing this healing truth. She also consults political candidates on how “life” is the winning issue through Broaden the Base Communications, LLC.

​Terry’s book What If We’ve Been Wrong? was released in 2016 and she has the exclusive movie rights to all of Dr. Nathanson’s writings and life story with plans for a feature film. In 2018, she is scheduled to speak at many venues across the country. While managing a Virginia PAC in 2011, Terry earned “The Worst Virginian in the World Award” by a liberal blogger and “The Greatest Impact Award” by a conservative blogger after working toward the defeat of a 28-year, pro-abortion, anti-parental rights Virginia State Senate incumbent. Using a grassroots strategy focused on exposing Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project” and the aggressive abortion industry’s attack on parental rights, Terry’s unparalleled methods awakened uninformed voters, crossed racial barriers and gained national media attention. Terry is talk show host of What If We’ve Been Wrong? broadcast on AmericaOutloud.com.

She’s been a contributing writer for The Washington Time’s “Power of Prayer” supplement and guest oped, WND, Fairfax Free Citizen and The Free Lance Star; radio and podcast interviews include In the Market with Janet Parshall, Relevant Radio’s “A Closer Look with Shelia Liaugminas” and the “Drew Mariani Show,” America Outloud’s “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pleasure,” WND, Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” and lecture talk, Dr. Richard Land Live, EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly with Catherine Szeltner, Steve Deace Show, Rob Schilling Show, Radio Maria, Culture Shock Radio, The Gospel of Life, and Dominion Radio. Terry has been interviewed for articles in The Washington Post, The Catholic Herald newspaper, World Magazine, and Virginia Right. Terry is a 2015 worldview graduate of Chuck Colson’s Fellows Program, former Virginia coordinator for ParentalRights.org, a former investment broker of 14 years and a retired homeschool mother of two daughters. In 1986, Terry graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Business. She currently serves on America Restored Advisory Board; Virginia Christian Alliance Board of Directors; and she is on the executive team for Deborah’s Voice 2018. Terry has been married for 32 years to Kenny Beatley.

Board of Directors

Andrea DelVecchio

Andrea DelVecchio ’s formal training and career as an Occupational Therapist prepared her for work in the fields of mental health and special needs resource education. Additional Master’s level courses in Curriculum Development and Adult Education allowed for more focused work in adult program development, project management, and public forum communication. 
Andrea lives in Northern Virginia with her husband of 25 years and has three grown sons.

Julian B. Heron

Julian is a member of the parish of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Great Falls, Virginia, and he is a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus, Padre Pio Council. He became a Third Order Dominican in 1996; served as the Prior and on the council of the St. Catherine of Siena Dominican Chapter; Vice Chairman of the National Board for the Foundation of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; member of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and legal advisor to Aid to the Church in Russia; member of Board of Overseers for the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies; and President, Program Chairman and Board Member of the Northern Virginia Chapter of Legatus.
The representation of cooperatives, corporations, insurance companies, farmers and trade associations has been at the heart of Julian Heron’s legal practice for over four decades.  He has an extensive practice in the areas of administrative law and foreign trade.  Julian has served as general counsel to numerous trade associations, in addition to having served as a staff member to the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations.

Support Team

Carlie Sorensen Dixon

 Carlie Sorensen Dixon serves as publicist for Terry Beatley, author of  What If We’ve Been Wrong? – Keeping my promise to America’s “Abortion King” and advises Terry Beatley as President of the Hosea Initiative. Carlie’s professional training is in law. She practiced tax and securities law for 10 years and served as a partner in a Washington, DC law firm. She retired from the practice of law to raise her children. She received her Juris Doctorate and Masters in Tax Law from George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC in 1979 and 1982.
Prior to serving as Terry Beatley’s publicist, she initiated and led several organizations and complex projects; she provided leadership and advocacy for mothers and families, and she was a public speaker, writer, and educator, all while raising her sons as an at home mother. Carlie has been married to Lee J. Dixon, II since 1986. She is the mother of three adult sons and the grandmother of two. She and her husband reside in Northern Virginia. 

Clare N. Ruff

​Clare N. Ruff earned a BA from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX with a concentration in Theology and Philosophy.  She has served in parish and diocesan ministry for 30 years in a variety of capacities: writing catechetical materials for adults as well as for preschool and school-age children; coordinating quarterly women’s retreats; publishing a regular column on Living the Liturgy at Home, and authoring prayer booklets for Leaflet Missal Co.
In addition, Clare has worked as an Executive Administrative Assistant for the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center, and for a patent law firm.  She writes from her home in La Crescent, MN, and is married to Catholic theologian and author, Christopher Ruff.  They are blessed with 5 adult children and 2 grandchildren.  Clare enjoys gardening and classical ballet.

Advisory Board

Cheryl Corser

Cheryl Corser is President and CEO of TELELINK Communications, where she has worked alongside her husband for 30 years.  She has an entrepreneurial spirit and is a thought leader in the competitive and ever-changing communications industry.
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Cheryl serves on the board of Capital Enterprising Women (CEW), a group of professional conservative women whose goal is to further their growth by building relationships, networking, increasing business opportunities, learning and mentoring.  CEW is where she first met Terry years ago when Terry was the group’s keynote speaker. Since that time,
Cheryl has been a passionate supporter of the mission of Hosea Initiative and has worked alongside Terry in fulfilling her promise.
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Cheryl lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Russ, and their rescue dog, Maddie. She has two grown daughters and two wonderful sons-in-law.

Leigh Valentine

Leigh Valentine is a successful, established brand, offering nationally recognized pharmaceutical, spa grade beauty and health products in the multi-billion dollar Anti-Aging Industry.  Her new collection is based on state-of-the-art technology and scientifically tested formulas. The centerpiece of the 50+ product collection is Leigh’s exclusive formulation, the Non-Surgical Facelift Kit & Firmalift, with over $250 million in sales. Founder and formulator, Leigh Valentine, has appeared for the last 10 years regularly as a top sales producer on the QVC shopping channel under the name Distinction.

Currently Leigh Valentine is launching a new generation of beauty
products exclusively under her own brand name “Valentine Beauty”
Early life, Education
Leigh Valentine was raised in St Louis, Missouri where her father, Dr. Robert Middleton, was a well-known medical doctor and surgeon. Her mother, Mary Middleton, led the nation in sales for Stanley Home Products and appeared in Life Magazine as an entrepreneur before her time. Leigh’s early life experiences were influential and sowed in her a desire for medical and nutritional solutions that really help people.
Valentine graduated from a private all-girls school, Incarnate Word Academy High School, in Normandy, Missouri. She attended the University of  Tampa and Florida State where she was crowned Miss Tallahassee; shortly afterwards Valentine went on to become Miss Missouri USA. Later she was involved in a near-death car accident which left her in a hospital for months fighting for her life. Through faith, surgery, and several miracles she was totally healed even though doctors told her she would never walk normal again. As an “overcomer” she went on to model and star in national television commercials, and was a  member of Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.).

Marc and Julie Anderson

Born in October 1973—just nine months after Roe v. Wade—high school sweethearts Marc and Julie Anderson have been married since July 1996.
Since 2000, they have served as regular contributors for The Leaven, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, and have received journalism awards from the Catholic Press Association, the Knights of Columbus and National Right to Life, including an honorable mention in the National Right to Life’s 14th annual award for excellence in journalism for “A couple’s fiat, or the ‘ayes’ have it,” the story of a family who adopted a child after an abortion was stopped by her birth mother.
In 2017, the couple received first place in the Catholic Press Association’s Best Reporting on Children and Teens Category for “Musical Work of Mercy,” a piece about children who sang for one of their favorite faculty members then dying of cancer. In 2018, the couple earned three awards, including first place in Best News Writing on a National or International Event: National Event for their four-page spread about human trafficking.
​The couple regularly volunteers for Kansans for Life, handing out fliers at the state fair, writing occasional articles and taking photos for the newsletter, assisting with mass mailings, distributing voters’ guides and soliciting petition signatories.
​The couple’s prolife convictions were born and strengthened from their shared Catholic faith as well as out of Julie’s complex medical history and their struggle with infertility after the loss of their only son, William James. 
Born October 1, 1973, Julie was later labeled with a failure to thrive. She spent most of her infancy at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1974, she became the first child in Topeka on hyperalimentation, a form of intravenous feeding. During childhood, she received 29 blood transfusions and spent numerous days in the hospital.
In February 1997, the couple welcomed news of their first child. When a routine ultrasound indicated the possibility of Down syndrome, doctors referred them to a high-risk pregnancy specialist who encouraged them to consider all options including abortion. Instead, they prayed and looked forward to their baby’s arrival. Due to pregnancy complications, the couple lost their only child, William James, on July 7.

Tricia Powell

Tricia, a bi-lingual native of Puerto Rico, graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Business Administration and is a graduate of the 2014-2015 Chuck Colson's Fellows Worldview Program.  Before answering the call to motherhood, she managed large-scale projects and worked on programs for major corporations. Tricia discovered her love of teaching when she volunteered and mentored students in the youth group at her local church. Her desire to inspire continued when she worked for a foreign exchange program where she supervised 40+ students from around the world. She hosted seven students of her own during her four year tenure with this program.  
 She proceeded to redirect her energy to her first ministry, her family, and began homeschooling her own children. She has taught History, Government and Classical Literature at her children's co-op. In addition, she is a frequent speaker serving on the Hosea Initiative team teaching worldview and its impact on social issues. She is currently teaching worldview to high school students.Tricia resides in Virginia with her husband of 22 years, two daughters and their dog Finley. 

Dr. Judith Gelernter Reisman

Dr. Judith Gelernter Reisman is a Research Professor at Liberty University School of Law and Director of the Liberty Center for Child Protection. A lecturer popular for her expertise in Media Forensics, she is also a former consultant to four U.S. Department of Justice administrations, the U.S. Department of Education, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices.
She has been engaged in a lifelong battle against pornography and since 1977 has fervently exposed the fraudulent sex science of Dr.  Alfred Kinsey. She holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Communications from Case Western Reserve University.

Leslie Davis Blackwell

Leslie Davis Blackwell has been a passionate communicator all her adult life – beginning as a host for an ABC news affiliate’s morning talk show, she has interviewed Hollywood celebrities, prominent politicians, children with special needs, and the elderly. Her media career has included hosting and producing programs/segments on The Today Show, The Rachel Ray Show, CNBC, CBS, A.M. Carolina, and Good Morning Virginia Show. In addition, Leslie is deeply involved in her community, lending her expertise to numerous charitable organizations. ​Her public relations/media firm has donated services to countless non-profits. ​
Leslie is the Virginia co-coordinator for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, sharing her own testimony of her regret for having had two abortions. Leslie is a self-described reformed radical feminist and former pro-choice supporter who now works tirelessly for the lives of the unborn. 

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is a Catholic husband, father, and disability/pro-life activist.  Born with mild cerebral palsy, his faith in God helped him defy the naysayers, earning a bachelor's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009 and a master's degree in government from Regent University in 2017, where he was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Award by the Robertson School of Government.
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​A state affairs specialist for an allied health organization in northern Virginia, Michael is also a blogger and speaker, and has appeared in publications such as the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Human Events.  
He blogs at www.therenegadetraditionalist.com.

Michael and his wife Kimberly live in Fredericksburg with their three children

Nancy Schulze

Nancy Schulze is the Founder of the Congressional Wives Speakers in Washington, D.C. and co-founder with Vonette Bright of the American Prayer Initiative (AmericanPrayerInitiative.org).  Her career path has taken her from New York City and show business to Washington, D.C. and politics via Montana where she was married to Montana’s Secretary of State, Jim Waltermire, frontrunner for Governor at the time of his death in a plane crash.  She later married Congressman Dick Schulze from Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Schulze has spoken at the Global Pastors Wives Conference, a national political Women’s Summit in Washington, The Christian Women in Media Association, The Inaugural Prayer Breakfast for the Governor of New York, events at the National Prayer Breakfast, and events for Members of the US Senate, House and the Presidency.

Renate Ferrante

Renate Ferrante, RN, BSN, is the Executive Director of Collier Community Abstinence Program (CCAP).  She works with school administrators and classroom teachers to provide authentic abstinence education in the form of workbooks and presentations to both public and private school students across the United States. She has spoken at the Law of Life Summit in Washington, D.C., been featured on CTN10's Action For Life, hosted by Fr. Michael Orsi, and on Divine Mercy Radio (an EWTN affiliate).
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Renate founded Eagles For Life at Florida Gulf Coast University, acted as a movie promoter for life-affirming productions including October Baby and Crescendo, and publicized the Students For Life of America conferences, coordinating for 50 Florida attendees one year.
Renate obtained her nursing diploma from St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center School of Nursing in Syracuse, New York, and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has been married for 38 years and has five children and one granddaughter. Renate's passion for promoting committed love, life, and family dovetails well with the pro-life focus of CCAP, a vital educational and preventive arm of the pro-life movement.

Tina Mann

Tina Mann is a devoted wife, mother and Christ follower. Tina is President of the Christian Business League of KS and is Station Manager for a national Christian Radio station, Bott Radio Network. Tina speaks to women’s ministries and has a heart to see genuine healing take place in God's people.

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Tina also has a discipleship ministry called Redemptive Healing and believes in the abundant power of prayer to truly change lives. Tina and her husband Chris have 5 children and 3 grandchildren and live in Wichita, KS.