Rabbi Amy Bigman was ordained by the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in 1992.  She has served congregations in Michigan and Missouri and has also served as the Assistant Director of the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish - Christian Studies in Southfield, Michigan. Rabbi Bigman served on the board and executive committee of the Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and was the recipient of its 2007 President's Award. 

Reverend Anne Carroll Fowler is an Episcopal priest and Rector of St. John's Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She is a former member of the Boards of Preterm and Planned Parenthood and of the Ethics Committee at Faulkner Hospital, a former chair of the Women-in-Crisis Committee and the Sexuality Study Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. She is a  participant in the Public Conversations Project, the ongoing dialogue among "pro-life" and pro-choice leaders in Boston. She is currently President of the Board of the Massachusetts Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry,  and co-convener of the Pro-Choice Religious Leadership Council of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Reverend Cedric A. Harmon is the Associate Field Director for Religious Outreach at Americans United for Separation of Church and State in Washington, DC.  As the liaison to religious communities, religious leaders, clergy and congregations nationwide, he encourages active and vocal involvement in matters of religion in public life. He serves on the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, the National Advisory Board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Pacific School of Religion, the Advisory Committee of the National Black Church Initiative of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the African American Clergy Council of the Human Rights Campaign. He is the Associate Pastor of City of Refuge in Washington, DC. 

Reverend Bill Levering is a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister, a professor, and an activist and scholar in the pro-choice religious community. Reverend Levering has taught the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice's "Theology of Reproductive Choice" course online and reactivated the Pennsylvania Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and served as its president through 2006. He also has been active on the Planned Parenthood Federation National Clergy Advisory Board. He is senior pastor of the First Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York, and has also served churches in Philadelphia, Haddonfield, New Jersey, Binghamton, New York, and Oxford, Pennsylvania. He taught speech and preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary and also taught at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, The College of New Jersey, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and the State University of New York in Binghamton. He holds a PhD in rhetoric and communication from Temple University and the Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Jill C. Morrison is Senior Counsel in Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center and a board member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Since joining the Center in 1998 as a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow, her focus has been on religious restrictions on reproductive health services. Ms. Morrison is a graduate of Rutgers University and Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and president of the Black Law Students' Association. She served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Eastern District Court of New York. Ms. Morrison also spent a year with the Women's Law Project as a Bar Foundation Fellow and practiced with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia. Her areas of expertise include pharmacy refusals, barriers to reproductive care, religious restrictions on reproductive health services, pregnancy rights, and health care and reproductive rights.  

The Reverend Dr. Paul Simmons is Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy,  where he teaches courses in Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, and Human Rights. He is an ordained Baptist minister and Director of the Center for Ethics in Ministry and Medicine, which he founded and heads. Simmons has contributed to the national and international dialogue on medical ethics through his writings on topics such as abortion, genetics, in-vitro fertilization, elective death and health care. Reverend Dr. Simmons lectures and writes on a variety of issues, including business ethics, sexuality and family, aging, peacemaking, religious liberty, and values in education. He has written five books, including Birth and Death: Bioethical Decision-Making (Westminster Press, 1983) and and The Southern Baptist Tradition: Religious Beliefs and Healthcare Decisions (Chicago: Park Ridge Center, 2002). Mercer University Press has accepted his book on Faith and Health: Religion, Science and Public Policy for publication.


Reverend Lloyd Steffen serves on the Board of Directors of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. He has been Vice-Chair and is currently serving as Secretary of the Board, and he represents the Religious Coalition at United Nations Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) conferences. Reverend Steffen is Professor of Religion Studies and University Chaplain at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has lectured and written about reproductive health issues and among his books are  Life/Choice: The Theory of Just Abortion (Pilgrim Press, 1994) and Abortion: A Reader (Pilgrim Press, 1996), which presents the wide range of views on abortion in world religions. 

Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey is President and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the founder of the Religious Coalition’s Black Church Initiative. The pioneering initiative is breaking the silence about sexuality in African American religious communities and creating new opportunities for African Americans to engage in the struggle for reproductive choice. A minister of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., born in Memphis, Tennessee, he is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Howard University School of Divinity. From the earliest days when he ministered to migrants on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Reverend Veazey has had a commitment to advocacy for social justice. During his 33-year ministry at the historic Zion Baptist Church in Washington, DC, he developed and implemented numerous programs for children, teens, and senior adults. He is currently pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Washington, DC

Reverend Matthew Westfox is the National Coordinator for Field Services for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. He also serves as Associate Pastor of All Souls Bethlehem Church in Brooklyn, New York, and is ordained through the United Church of Christ. Before attending seminary at Pacific School of Religion, Reverend Westfox was a community organizer for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and a legislative aide for New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane.

Reverend Penny Willis is the Director of the Multicultural Programs Department of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She manages the National Black Church Initiative (which includes the National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality™), La Iniciativa Latina, and our Generation to Generation teen pregnancy prevention project. She leads the training and implementation of RCRC’s faith-based sexuality education dialogue models for hundreds of African American congregations through “Keeping It Real!” for teens and “Breaking the Silence” for adults. She is an experienced trainer and speaker on sexuality and justice, comprehensive sexuality education, and the church’s role in public and private discussions and decision-making on reproductive liberty and justice. She is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. Prior to accepting a position with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Reverend Willis served as Associate Pastor with the Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church in Chicago, Illinois. She has long been active on reproductive health concerns, through her work as the Vice President and Project Coordinator with RCRC Illinois, Community Educator and Faith Outreach Coordinator for Planned Parenthood Chicago and the Clergy Advisory Board of the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America. She received her Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary and her Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice from Lewis University.