Summit '09 Speaker: Eric Scheidler

Students for Life of Illinois is proud to announce our third speaker for this year’s Student Leadership Summit: Eric Scheidler.  Scheidler is the Communications Director of the Pro-Life Action League.Click here to register for the Summit and see Eric speak about Activism and sharing the pro-life message.Eric Scheidler is the Communications Director of the Pro-Life Action League, founded in 1980 by his father, veteran pro-life leader Joe Scheidler, to fight abortion through non-violent direct action. He is the oldest of the seven Scheidler children.Eric holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in English studies from the University of Georgia. From 1998 to 2002, he served as assistant director of The GIFT Foundation, an organization devoted to enriching Christian marriage.Since August 2007, Eric has headed the grassroots pro-life group Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood, which is dedicated to shutting down the nation’s largest abortion facility, opened in Aurora, Illinois under a cloud of deception and controversy.Eric speaks frequently on pro-life issues to audiences around the country.  He lives in Aurora, Illinois with his wife April and their eight children.The 2009 Annual Pro-Life Leadership Summit will be held on October 24 at Loyola University in Chicago.  Last year’s summit attracted students from 14 campuses.  Attendees were treated to excellent speakers who equipped, energized, and inspired a renewed commitment to spreading the Culture of Life to college campuses and beyond. Click here to register for the 2009 Summit.