The Biographies of our Presenters

Below are brief backgrounds of our presenters. The focus of our conference is on the Social, Scientific, and Spiritual aspects (the 3 Ss) of Wokeism and how it affects us, our family, friends, and co-workers. Noelle will be covering the Social issues, Stacy will be covering the Scientific aspects, Paul will share his legal experience, and Fr. Anthony will cover how we can deal with all of this morally and spiritually.

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Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of the book Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology. She is an editor for the online women’s magazine Theology of Home and a coauthor of the books Theology of Home, volumes I – III. Noelle is a wife and mother of six. 
Paul M. Jonna is a Catholic husband, father of 8 children, parishioner at OLMC, and lawyer with a litigation practice that focuses heavily on constitutional law and the defense of religious liberty. Paul serves as Special Counsel to the Chicago-based Thomas More Society and has won many high-profile religious liberty cases – in the trial courts, courts of appeal, and even the U.S. Supreme Court – including 9 consecutive wins against the State of California. Many of these cases were on behalf of brave Christians that vindicated their right to work and live without caving to the illegal and immoral demands of the new woke orthodoxy.  
Stacy Trasancos has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State University and worked as a senior research chemist for DuPont before converting to Catholicism. She left her career to stay home with her highly complex composite systems who call her Mommy. In those years, she earned a M.A. in dogmatic theology while keeping a large family together and published five books on the integration of science and theology. She and her husband, Jose, operate Children of God for Life, an organization that fights to end the use of aborted children in research. Dr. Trasancos teaches online science and theology courses for Seton Hall University and Holy Apostles College and Seminary, is a Fellow of the Word on Fire Institute, and frequently appears on Catholic radio, podcasts, and television. After the publication of her book, Particles of Faith, John Farrell at Forbes wrote, “Trasancos represents a very rare bird, the scientist who did not cease to be a geek even after she got religion.” She is, at last, pursuing a second M.A. in systematic philosophy. 
Fr. Anthony Saroki  is the Pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in northeast San Diego.  During his tenure he has lead a vibrant and spirit filled congregation and has overseen the building of a new church and discipleship center.

Fr. is the oldest of six children born to Karim and Faiza, Chaldean Catholic immigrants from Iraq. He was raised in San Diego and graduated from Chula Vista High School. He studied at Georgetown University and earned a BA in Government in 1996. He attended law school at UC Berkeley and received his JD in 1999.

After two years of practicing business litigation for a large law firm in downtown San Diego, God made it clear that he had another vocation in mind for Anthony—to serve God and the Church as a priest. He responded to the call and entered seminary formation at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California. He was ordained a priest in 2005.

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