Mary Summerhays

Mary Summerhays is a consultant for Princeton New Jersey’s Witherspoon Institute.  She Is the Utah State Leader for their CanaVox project. She is better known in Utah for creating the  Celebration of Marriage, an organization that  works to increase public awareness about the consequences of a possible of redefinition of  marriage or gender  in the state of Utah.   Her optimism and  down to earth speaking style makes it easy for every audience to relate to the issue, and get excited about protecting the family.   Surprisingly, her interest in gender issues stemmed from her work as an award winning artist whose paintings explore the transformative nature of relationships.  She is married to a fascinating LDS apologist and academic editor.  They and their five children live in Provo, and share a fondness for the state vice—ice cream.

Nettie H. Francis

Nettie H. Francis is the mother of nine children, ages 2 through 17.  She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Elementary Education and has taught in both public and private schools.
 
Nettie is also an avid writer and she promotes families, traditional values, and womanhood in her articles.  Her work has appeared in national and international publications. 

Nettie is the former editor of the Wyoming Woman Magazine.  Although she now resides in Utah, Nettie continues as a columnist for the Casper Journal in Wyoming  She also works as a freelance writer for a variety of additional publications.

Nettie and her husband, Mark, have raised their children in Santa Clara, Utah; Las Vegas, Nevada; Casper, Wyoming; and currently enjoy living on their small family farm in Kaysville, Utah.