Meet the Speakers!

Sonya Wiley has served SaveOne since 2017 where she is a SaveOne trainer, local Chapter Leader, and serves on the Speaking Team. Before joining the SaveOne staff, Sonya experienced first-hand the healing she needed from a past abortion by attending and completing the SaveOne bible study. She loves to see and be a part of witnessing other’s lives healed and changed through SaveOne.

Sonya is a strong advocate for life and desires to see abortion abolished in our world. Additionally, Sonya has spoken and led worship at the My Sister’s Keeper women’s conferences and enjoys sharing her testimony at churches and conferences of how God healed her through SaveOne’s ministry. She is married to the love of her life, Chris Wiley. They have been married for 19 years and they minister through music and the Word at churches and conferences.

Christina Dent is the Founder & President of the nonprofit End It For Good. She is a speaker whose TEDx Talk helped spark the movement End It For Good leads today. She is also a writer whose work has been featured in publications such as Real Clear Policy and USA Today, and the author of the new book Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction.

After fostering the son of a woman struggling with addiction, Christina’s curiosity about how to achieve better outcomes resulted in a learning journey that changed her mind about the best path forward. She started End It For Good in 2019 to invite more people to consider health-centered approaches to drugs and addiction instead of criminal justice ones. End It For Good was recently named a top nonprofit in Mississippi. The organization has hosted fifty events, written thirty articles for publications across the country, and given over two hundred interviews and presentations.

When Beverly Jacobson's daughter Verity was diagnosed with Edwards syndrome—a condition deemed "incompatible with life"—she was met with devastating words from medical professionals. Despite their dire predictions, Verity is now 8 years old and thriving. Having moved from heartache to hope, Beverly has made it her mission to help moms on this journey through her nonprofit ministry, Mama Bear Care. With fierce love and tender care, she offers hope, resources, and the message that every baby is a precious gift, worthy of celebration.

Karen is the Founder and President of Deeper Still. She first entered pregnancy center ministry in 1985. She has served in post-abortion healing ministry for many years and, out of those experiences, has developed the Deeper Still Retreat. Karen has had an abortion herself and knows what the healing journey entails. She has served as an executive director of a crisis pregnancy center and as a national trainer. Karen holds a B.S. in Human Services Counseling from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She lives with her husband Arthur in Knoxville. 

Since 2018, Betty Hodge has partnered with Embrace Grace with leading support groups and connecting local churches to the ministry. By doing this, she has significantly increased the number of churches hosting groups from two to over twenty trained groups in the Jackson metro area. Through leadership of groups at her church, she has witnessed more than a dozen individuals that have made commitments to Christ, and many women have found a church home after participating in an Embrace Grace group.



Betty has dedicated over five years to The Center for Pregnancy Choices in Jackson where she has served primarily as the Community Relations Director. Currently, Betty has transitioned to the role of Programs Director, overseeing medical services, support services, prevention education, and abortion recovery departments. 

Da’Chiron Tresvant has worked for the Center for Pregnancy Choices in Jackson for 6 years and currently serves as the Prevention Education Manager.  

As a result of the state of Mississippi having the highest prevalence in maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, teen pregnancies, and STI’s, Da’Chiron plans to use her public health experience to give back to the underserved populations in her community. Da’Chiron feels educating teens and young adults as early as possible is vital and can have a more positive impact on the state’s health outcomes. Da’Chiron believes that it is crucial that the youth are educated and feel supported during difficult decision making. 



Da’Chiron is currently attending JSU School of Public Health and serves as a doctoral candidate concentrating in Epidemiology.

Julie Grimstad is Vice President of the Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization (HALO).

Julie has served the medically vulnerable and their families as a volunteer patient advocate since 1985. She began her career as a licensed practical nurse caring for elderly and disabled patients. A speaker and writer, Julie addresses many aspects of medical decision-making, patient advocacy, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and organ transplantation and donation.

Gerry Grey-Lewis is a wife, mother and nurse who has spent her professional career caring for patients both at the beginning and end of life. She and her family are devoted members of Pro-Life Mississippi. 

Cinda Henderson has over 20 years of hospice care experience and has served as a licensed social worker, volunteer coordinator and bereavement coordinator. Cinda found a gifting for working with those who had been given a diagnosis no one is truly ready to receive. 

Cinda's vast hospice experience includes education for those in hospice care as well as all services offered to patients living in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and independent living facilities as well as at-home patients.