Speakers
John Stonestreet, Summit Ministries 
John Stonestreet is the Executive Director of Summit Ministries and is on the Biblical Studies faculty at Bryan College. A popular speaker at camps, conventions, and conferences, he works annually with thousands of parents, teachers, and students on developing a biblical worldview, understanding comparative worldviews, defending the Christian faith, applying a biblical worldview to education, and engaging important cultural issues. He is a Fellow of the Wilberforce Fellows, a division of Breakpoint, and is the co-author with W. Gary Phillips and William E. Brown of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview, 2nd. ed. (Sheffield, 2007), as well as numerous web and journal articles.
John joined the Summit team in 1999, and has served numerous roles including directing the Eastern Summit programs in Tennessee and Virginia. He, his wife Sarah, and three daughters live in Colorado Springs, CO.
Mike Smith, HSLDA 
J. Michael Smith is the President of Home School Legal Defense Association, an organization which he cofounded with Michael Farris in 1983 to protect the right of parents who choose home education as their way to satisfy the compulsory attendance law in the various states and Canada. Home School Legal Defense Association now represents over 80,000 member families. He is an attorney licensed to practice in the states of California, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Mike received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas and his Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego. After serving two years as a Deputy City Attorney assigned to the Criminal Division in San Diego, he went into private practice specializing in personal injury and criminal defense. After he and his wife, Elizabeth, decided to home school their children, Mike became involved in defending the rights of home schoolers in California. It became glaringly apparent that home educators could not afford attorneys, and as a result, Home School Legal Defense Association was established to defend and advance the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children and protect family freedom. He and his wife have four children. Their oldest daughter, Kari, is a paralegal in San Francisco. Their next daughter, Chrissy, was their first homeschool graduate and is a graduate of UCLA. Their two youngest children, Andrew and Erin, were also homeschooled and graduated from George Mason University. Mike has a simple purpose and message for his life work: Faith, family, and freedom.
Todd Wilson, Familyman Ministries 
author of Help! I'm Married to a Homeschooling Mom and The Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons, is a dad, writer, conference speaker, and former pastor. Todd's humor and gut-honest realness have made him a favorite speaker at homeschool conventions across the country and a guest on Focus on the Family.
His articles have appeared in various magazines. Christianity Today also posts his weekly column (The Familyman Weekly) on their website.
Todd and his wife Debbie, along with their eight children spend several months of the year traveling the country encouraging moms and dads. His humor, realness, and straight talk to men (& women) have become his trademark.
Kathie Morrissey, Courtship Connection 
Kathie Morrissey, the mother of 8 children, is a committed homeschooling mom of 23 years. Kathie is the founder of The Courtship Connection, as well as a popular speaker at homeschool conventions, family seminars, and mother/daughter banquets. She is also a writer who has been published in Christian women's magazines. Her heart's desire is to help and encourage parents in raising Godly children with
strong Christian character. Her five oldest children have graduated from their homeschool, and oldest son and daughter are now married. She continues to teach the three youngest.
Ricci Black, Home School Foundation 
Ricci Black joined the staff of the Home School Foundation part-time as coordinator of the Ambassador Program in March 2010. Her responsibilities include developing a national team of volunteer ambassadors who become personally involved in their communities to help families in need.
She is the wife of HSLDA Senior Counsel Dewitt Black. They home schooled their four children through high school for a total of 21 years. Her motto through those years was “You gotta’ have a plan, but plan to be flexible.”
She is a substitute teacher in the public school system for special needs children and runs a home-based wellness business in her spare time.
Now that the children are mostly independent, her hobbies include reading and loving on her new Chihuahua puppy.
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