Sarah Ryan, a Young Scholar of HLI America, is from Allen, Texas, and is currently a junior studying social work at Texas State University where she is President of “Bobcats for Life.” Sarah’s passion for defending life emerged through education on pro-life issues, beginning with personal research in high school and more recently cultivated through Texas Right to Life’s Generation Now Scholarship Program. After college, Sarah hopes to become a social worker and mother while continuing to further the pro-life message. Read Sarah’s articles here.

Ronald L. Anderson is a Young Scholar at HLI America.  He is a freshman at Stanford University where he majors in English and Psychology. Ronald moved to Katy, Texas during his high school years and at the age of seventeen, he converted to Catholicism after four years of learning and experiencing the Faith. He was Confirmed at the Easter Vigil in 2011. He is is passionate about the pro-life, pro-family cause because of the tendency of society today to devalue the importance of life and of the traditional family. Read Ronald’s articles here.