MERRILEE BOYACK

Merrilee Boyack loves life and loves every season of life--especially this one! She enjoys hanging out with her family and discussing politics. She is an estate-planning attorney who conducts her law practice from home. Merrilee is also a professional lecturer, featured for many years at BYU Education Week and Time Out for Women, and a published author. She loves to travel and meet people all over the world. Her perfect day is camping in a tent, reading a good book, taking a perfect hike, and eating free food. Her current passion is her work as a Pro-life advocate. She created the Abortion-Free Utah Coalition to eradicate elective abortion in Utah.  She also serves as Development Director for Pro-Life Utah. She is co-founder of Latter-day Saints for Life, a global organization of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who support pro-life and serves as their Director of Development. Merrilee also has created the Empowered Families Coalition of pro-family organizations in Utah to support family and traditional values. She is a passionate community activist working to protect unborn babies, families, and traditional values.

She is the author of several books and talks, including The Parenting Breakthrough, Strangling Your Husband Is Not an Option; In Trying Times, Just Keep Trying, and her most recent, The Star Leads Us to Him.

Merrilee and her husband, Steve, reside in Lehi, Utah.