Meet Kathy Barnette, one of the 2020 Heartbeat International Annual Conference Keynote speakers!
More about our Keynote Speakers
We are glad to welcome Keynote speakers for the 2020 Heartbeat International Annual Conference, who are key leaders in the pregnancy help movement, as well as prolife leaders from around the United States.
Cindi Boston
Vice President of Heartbeat International
Cindi Boston serves as vice president of Heartbeat International. She oversees expansion and funding of the mission to reach and rescue as many lives as possible, around the world, through an effective network of life-affirmining pregnancy help. Working tirelessly, Cindi strives to advance Heartbeat's global impact ensuring sustainability and growth. She leads Heartbeat's advocacy efforts, including Heartbeat's Babies Go to Congress, where moms and babies, served and saved by pregnancy centers, meet with U.S. lawmakers.
Cindi is the proud mother of two sons, Josh and Caleb.
Kathy Barnette
Author/Political Commentator/Veteran/Mom
Appearing regularly on National TV & Radio, Christian Conservative Mother & Wife, Kathy Barnette's common sense voice resonates in today's snowflake society. She is a veteran, a former adjunct Professor of Corporate Finance, sought after conference speaker, as well as Conservative political commentator.
She served her country proudly for 10 years in the Armed Forces Reserves, where she was accepted into Officer Candidacy School. Her corporate career includes working with two major Wall Streeet firms and in corporate America. Kathy sat on the Board of a pregnancy crisis center for 5 years.
Perhaps her most cherished opportunity, to date, besides being a wife, is the ability to homeschool her two children.
Jor-El Godsey
President of Heartbeat International
Jor-El Godsey serves as President of Heartbeat International. He leads a staff dedicated to equipping, empowering, and encouraging the thousands of leaders and developing leaders of Heartbeat’s affiliated pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and adoption services, in the U.S. and on every inhabited continent. He oversees Heartbeat’s core mission to be the leadership supply line for the growing pregnancy help movement worldwide by providing accurate information, training resources, leadership development conferences, programs, and daily support to help affiliates start, grow, and expand their services to women and couples at risk for abortion.
Father Frank Pavone
National Director of Priests for Life
Father Frank Pavone is one of the most prominent pro-life leaders in the world. Originally from New York, he was ordained in 1988 by Cardinal John O'Connor, and since 1993 has served full-time in pro-life leadership with his bishop's permission. He is the National Director of Priests for Life, the President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, and the National Pastoral Director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and of Rachel's Vineyard, the world's largest ministry of healing after abortion.
He has received numerous pro-life awards and honorary doctorates and he is the author of four books, Ending Abortion, Not Just Fighting It; Pro-Life Reflections for Every Day; Aboloishing Abortion, and Proclaiming the Message of Life.
Derrick and Julie Tennant
The Love Chromosome
Brother and sister duo, Derrick and Julie Tennant have worked very hard to overcome many physical and mental life-challenges. Today they work just as hard using comedy and inspirational events worldwide to help others overcome trials and realize the incalculable value of every life.
Nicole C. Mullen
Award-Winning Singer & Songwriter
Nicole C. Mullen has long been known as an undeniably talented artist who is unafraid to be vulnerable and transparent with her audience. She continues a legacy of sincerity and artistic integrity that in the past has been recognized with two Grammy® Award nominations and nine Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, including two Female Vocalist of the Year honors, Song of Year for "Redeemer," and "On My Knees," the Urban Album of the Year for "Everyday People," Contemporary Song of the year (Call on Jesus), and the first African American female to win Songwriter of the Year for "Redeemer."