Michelle Bauman  served 21 years as a Lutheran educator before joining the Lutherans for Life team in June 2019. Currently serving as Director of Y4Life, Michelle helps high school and college students learn about life issues and how to address them from a Gospel-motivated perspective. She also supports the building and maintaining of Y4Life Teams on high school and college campuses across the nation. When not presenting, writing, or creating social media posts for Y4Life, Michelle loves gardening, taking long walks, traveling, cooking, and spending quality time with her husband and sons.

Dr. Grant Carey grew up in the great states of Texas and California and went to college at Concordia, Irvine. Since then he's served as a DCE in Alaska, Arizona, and Nebraska and now is a professor of Religious Education at Concordia University Texas, working with future DCE’s. Some of his favorite classes include teaching on Sexuality, Youth Culture, and Apologetics. In his free time, he can be found with his amazing wife at their daughter’s cheer competitions, softball tournaments, or out running obstacle races in the mud

Scott Licht grew up in New Ulm, Minnesota, and was raised in the Wisconsin Synod. He graduated from Martin Luther Preparatory School, Northwestern College (the WELS pastor-training college), and attended Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary for a short time. In 2005, he earned an MBA and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Iowa State University. Scott worked in the corporate world for 30 years before combining his business and theological education and experience at Lutherans For Life beginning in 2012. Scott satisfied the requirements and was ordained in the Lutheran Congregations in Mission to Christ (LCMC) in 2014. In addition to his service at Lutherans For Life, he serves as pastor of Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huxley, Iowa—a congregation rostered with the LCMC and the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). Scott has an adult daughter in the Des Moines area and a daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons near Colfax, Iowa. He and his wife, Sue, live near Huxley, Iowa, with three horses. Sue also has three adult daughters. Scott says, “There is never a lack of things to do, and I give thanks for how richly God has blessed me. I enjoy serving Him through the mission of Lutherans For Life, and I would ask for your prayers as we continue to ‘equip Lutherans and their neighbors to be Gospel-motivated voices For Life.’” 

Rev. Michael W. Salemink began serving as executive director of Lutherans For Life in January 2016.  He received a B.A. in Theology from Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, in 1999 and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2003. He has served as pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Webster, Minnesota, (2003-2005) and as associate pastor of St. James Lutheran Church and School in Lafayette, Indiana (2005-2015). Pastor Salemink and his wife, Heather, have been married 21 years and reside in St. Louis, Missouri, where they attend Immanuel Lutheran Church, Olivette, with their three sons: Christian, Nathan, and Luke.  Pastor Salemink writes regularly and speaks nationwide equipping Lutherans and their neighbors to be Gospel-motivated voices for life. 

Dr. Carl Trovall  is the Richard J Dinda Professor of Lutheran Identity and Mission, and Professor of Ethics and History at Concordia University Texas.  He is a regular panelist on the TV ethics program, The American Religious Town Hall Meeting.  In former positions, he has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University Texas, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, Laredo, TX, and as campus pastor at Concordia University Texas and at the University of Texas.  His professional interests include public theology and ethics, leadership and ethics, contemporary Christian ethics, the mission of Church-related Universities in the United States, Latino/a Studies, History of Mexico, Liberation Theology, Immigration, Relations of Church and Civil Society, Bioethics, and the Ethics of War and Peace.  Having worked as a pastor on the U.S.—Mexico border, he has been particularly interested in exploring what U. S. Latino/a theology might contribute to the broader public discourse in the United States on identity, ethnicity, immigration, and civic community.  His dissertation, An Analysis of the Political and Moral Implications of “Mestizaje’ for Michael Walzer’s Conception of Community in the United States, focused on  the work of Fr. Virgilio Elizondo.   In 2011, Liturgical Press published his essay, “Juan Diego:  A Psychohistory of a Regenerative Man” in a collection entitled American Magnificat:  Protestants on Mary of Guadalupe, edited by Maxwell E. Johnson.  He was the recipient of the Martin J. Neeb Teaching Excellence Award in 2000 and 2009.  He and his wife, Carol, reside in Pflugerville, TX and have a daughter who resides in Houston, TX and a son who resides in Long Beach, CA.