Students for Life of North Carolina is here as a resource for your student pro-life groups across the state. We offer conferences, advice for new campus groups, and networking. We’re here to help your groups grow!
Additionally, SFLNC is your connection to all other pro-life student groups in North Carolina. Together we stand united in the fight for life!
New officers are elected each year at the annual conference. We are looking for passionate pro-lifers to step up and serve in these roles in the 2011-2012 school year! Click here if you’d like to apply for a position. Email us at sflnorthcarolina@gmail.com if you would like more information.
You can also find us on facebook.
Current Officers of SFLNC
Jennifer Boone - President
Jennifer studied English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate and became very active in Carolina Students for Life in her junior year and continued in leadership of CSFL during graduate school. She graduates in May 2011 with a Master’s degree and hopes to become a school librarian soon after. In Spring 2008 she was one of the founding officers of SFLNC and is now even more passionate about the SFLNC mission to save lives by helping and encouraging student pro-life groups to grow and thrive!
Stephanie Maxwell – Co-Outreach Director
Stephanie is a first year medical student at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Although now officially a pirate, she will always be a Tarheel at heart since graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2010 with a Bachelors of Art in Chemistry and Spanish. She hopes to incorporate pro-life passion into a career as either an OB/GYN or a neonatologist after medical school. She is especially passionate about supporting and caring for young women facing unplanned pregnancies. She truly loves the babies!
Matthew Curran – High School Outreach Director
Matt is the founder and president of Triad Students for Life and started the group in May 2009. He is in the 10th grade, and is fully enrolled with Seton Home Study School. Matt lives in Winston-Salem,NC. Matt also serves on the Charlotte Diocese Youth Advisory Council ( DYAC ). There he represents the Winston-Salem Vicarate of the Diocese of Charlotte to the DYAC board. Matt also serves on the trustees board at Room of the Inn of the Carolinas. Matt has also won the 2010 Hero for Life award from Room at the Inn. For work that does not involve the pro-life movement Matt is a Bat-Boy for the new minor league baseball team “Winston-Salem Dash.” Interested in starting your own high school pro-life group? Please contact him for advice and ideas!
Art Silva - Web Director
Art studied Business Management at Belmont Abbey College. While there he co-ran Crusaders for Life and led the club into record number events such as a March for Life Trip and the Room at the Inn Banquet Fundraiser. Sophomore year he set his eyes on creating a state-wide conference for college students who couldn’t afford a trip to SFLA Conference in D.C. At the same time, such a state-wide group was forming in the Tri-City area. Thus began what you see now. When he’s not helping the movement in NC, he freelances as a web & print designer.
Stephanie Mercer - College Outreach Director
Stephanie is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill and has been a member of Carolina Students for Life since her freshman year, serving as Co-President her sophomore year and Co-Membership Director this year. She is an International Studies and Peace, War, and Defense double major looking forward to studying abroad next year. She is passionate about serving college groups through her position as College Outreach Director in SFLNC. If you’re in a college pro-life group and are looking for some new ideas, or want to start a group of your own, please don’t hesitate to contact her!
Sarah Richards - Co-Outreach Director, Public Relations Director
Sarah is a senior transfer student at UNC-Chapel Hill and graduates in May 2011 with a degree in Political Science. She is a member of Carolina Students for Life and enjoys her leadership role in SFLNC. She was drawn to the pro-life movement because she has a passion for helping women and children, and for this reason is also considering a graduate degree in public health.
Jen Grimsley - Conference Director
Jen is also a student at UNC-Chapel Hill and member of Carolina Students for Life. She is a junior double majoring in Applied Mathematics and Physics & Astronomy. When she’s not spending summers in Paris or dreaming of travels to other exciting places, she does whatever she can to help women and stand up for the rights of the unborn.
Andrew Votipka - Fundraising Director
Andrew is also a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill and has been a member of Carolina Students for Life since his freshman year. He is a History and Philosophy double major. He spent summer 2010 at the National Right to Life Academy in Washington DC and came back with lots of knowledge and new ideas. Andrew greatly enjoys involvement in the pro-life movement, and is currently instrumental in putting on the Chapel Hill, NC 40 Days for Life campaign.