ProLife Speakers, Human Rights, Black Genocide, Human Trafficking

Building The Right Team For The Right Moment

Rivers Hatchett-Teske (Founder)

Founder & President of Hidden Choices, Inc.™ A human rights activist and advocate for children and women. Networks humanitarian needs around the globe ensuring dignity of life, self-sustaining projects in farming and trade schools promoting higher education and solutions to orphan stability.

In 1997, a personal family crisis catapulted her into a new direction as she helped her 18 year old daughter through an unplanned pregnancy. In the early days of seeking guidance, she discovered that support opportunities were limited in education, financial and affordable healthcare and that the simple day to day housing requirements for young women choosing not to abort their children were virtually nonexistent. The vacuum in these critical areas motivated her to launch Hidden Choices and connect committed providers and valuable information to one another in North America. Her manual, Quick Start Guideline To Open A Maternity Home has helped countless individuals and communities successfully open doors to housing options for teen mothers and women choosing life for their children.

Laura Loffredo (Adoption Specialist)

Hidden Choices welcomes Ms. Laura Loffredo as the newest advisor to our team. Laura’s passion and love for children at risk led her into a diverse career with an Early Childhood Masters educational background to change the strategy on the overwhelming issues facing our communities. Her research and expertise into the plight of the abused child, the broken foster care system and the winnable solution of adoption will best address these critical social issues for the Hidden Choices mission and outreach.

Personally, she and her husband struggled with infertility for six years. She often refers to this period as the “darkest times of their lives.” It was physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially draining. Somewhere along this road they discovered adoption, which brings fresh, “winning alternative solutions” to our global family.

Gabrielle Kilgore Beam (African American Outreach)

As an African American growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Gabrielle was the daughter of “hippie parents” on the one hand and the granddaughter of well-to-do socially conservative, yet politically liberal socialites on the other. Being among the first to integrate multiple suburban neighborhoods and schools across the country as one of a very few “others," Gabrielle’s heart burned passionately at an early age for a sense of “belonging” and for those living at the edges of social turmoil and unrest simply because of the color of their skin or the curl of their hair.

Having overcome her own personal crisis as a teenager and young adulthood, Gabrielle now fights for the life and justice for the most vulnerable and most beloved “others” of our society, the unborn who bear our very own reflections, and whose voices have been silenced before their first cry for belonging, acceptance, and embrace can even cut through the air. The words black genocide and eugenics are becoming commonplace, but must not be allowed to remain as accurate descriptors.

Gabrielle is an ordained Anglican priest, holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology from Yale Divinity School. She is an ardent lover of life, justice, and freedom. For over a decade, she has worked for the freedom and healing of thousands of women and men in the U.S. and abroad.

Christine Dolan (Human Trafficking Specialist)

An International investigative broadcast and print journalist whose work has focused on the issue of human trafficking for the last 12 years, has worked for ABC, NBC, and CNN, Channel Four in London, and free-lanced for magazines in the US and abroad. Her professional career has focused upon politics, Africa, and war/conflicts. She is the Author of Shattered Innocence – The Millennium Holocaust, a report on the global phenomenon of human trafficking, which was released at a News maker National Press Club in 2001. The International Center for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), which is located in Alexandria, Virginia, commissioned the Report. ICMEC’s mission is to create and lead a coordinated, global response to the problems of international child abduction and child sexual exploitation.

Ms. Dolan’s body of work on human trafficking work has been endorsed by Interpol and other law enforcement agencies worldwide, the United Nations, European Union, diplomats, politicians, nongovernmental organizations and fellow journalists.

It is estimated by Free the Slaves that 27 million persons worldwide are enslaved. Of that number, more than half are children. Ms. Dolan believes the numbers are higher. This modern slave trade exists in many forms including child soldiers, sex tourism, forced prostitution, labor trafficking, and internet child pornography.

Ms. Dolan found that there is still an enormous growth in the trafficking industry of infants, toddlers, pre-teens, and young teenagers who are being exported and imported as a result of society being asleep at the wheel to the enormous impact of these transnational and trans-criminal enterprises.

Ms Dolan has stated, “The average person is not aware of this issue. Politicians argue over the definition of trafficking and exploitation and approach this situation as if it were an immigration issue. Governments sign laws which cannot be enforced because local law enforcement is understaffed, untrained, and in some cases, corrupt. Victims are being drugged, kidnapped, raped, murdered or driven to commit suicide. The numbers are staggering and the ages are frightening."

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