Meet The Team
Robert is a San Francisco native from the Richmond District. He studied at Lowell High, City College, and Notre Dame’s Vita Institute. Robert has been with Pro-Life SF since 2016. He previously worked at Aquarium of the Bay and has volunteered for Alpha Pregnancy Center. Recently, he has volunteered on the presidential campaign of pro-life democrat Terrisa Bukovinac to center victims of abortion in the public discourse.
Robert enjoys creating content to educate and inspire the public and highlighting the fact that people of all beliefs and no beliefs in particular — like himself — can be pro-life. When he’s not doing research, he engages in the visual arts creating original characters such as the political cartoon “OfGilda.”
Robert Byrd
Executive Coordinator and Treasurer
Jazzi is a wife, Kids Pastor, and mom of two cats with a deep commitment to the consistent life ethic. She has been involved in pro-life work in San Francisco since 2019 and has served as a Kids Pastor in San Francisco since 2021. Jazzi has a background in executive administration and studied psychology in college. For five years, she volunteered as a Public Speaker for the Fairfield Alpha, focusing on teen dating violence and sexual assault. Raised in a low-income, single-parent home, she is passionate about supporting those facing similar challenges. Jazzi is also a tattooed, vegan advocate who brings her unique perspective and dedication to her work on the board.
Jazzi Milton
Board Member
Eric Cochran
Board Member
Eric started his activism with Pro-Life SF at its first Planned Parenthood protest in 2017. Soon after, he was attending every San Francisco court hearing in the unjust prosecution against pro-life journalist David Daleiden. Inspired by David, after years in tech, Eric began a new career in journalism. While, he still has fun programming and building Android apps whenever he has the opportunity, Eric now runs an undercover journalism nonprofit, breaking national new stories and bringing justice for victims of sexual abuse.
John Leibee
Board Member
John is a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. John credits growing up with severe food allergies as his inspiration for service in the prolife movement and for reaching out to the most vulnerable. In addition to working in the legal industry, John is an active volunteer at his Catholic parish, Knights of Columbus council, and is Life Director for the Oakland Chapter of the Knights of Columbus. John is also President of United for Life of Northern California, the oldest prolife organization in the Bay Area.
Melanie is a Catholic, wife, mom, and proud Chicana from San Antonio, Texas. She earned her bachelors in Communication from the University of Texas at San Antonio Honors College with double minors in Spanish and Civic Engagement.
Melanie began pro-life advocacy by refounding and leading her university pro-life group. While in college, she studied abroad in Germany, served the houseless community at a Catholic Worker House, worked at a maternity home as a translator for immigrant teen moms, interned for a foster care youth success program, moved to DC to advocate for the confirmation of both Justice Kavanaugh and Barrett, and door knocked, testified, and lobbied in favor of pro-life first policies and politicians.
She has previously worked for Students for Life of America, for the San Antonio Coalition for Life as a weekly sidewalk intern, and for a pregnancy help clinic. Melanie received training in pro-life apologetics through Justice For All. She later joined the international pro-life fight by co-founding Pro-Life Global, where she has trained students and leaders in Uganda, Guatemala, Jamaica, Colombia, Bolivia, India, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka. She has been featured in BBC, Vice, New York Times, and ABC Nightline.
In her free time Melanie enjoys language learning, reality TV romance shows, and working on her Open to Life Podcast which is an intersectional space of the pro-life movement meeting pro-fertility awareness advocacy.
Melanie Salazar
Executive Director
Bay Area native Emma Craig has been a huge fan of PLSF since she discovered the organization in 2020. What attracted Emma to PLSF was their commitment to fighting the late-term abortion and fetal organ harvesting happening at UCSF. She has contributed as an organizer during several memorable weeks of action, the CVS pharmacy protests, and the street campaign in the city to fight against Prop O. Emma works in the bay area as a public high school art teacher. In her spare time she loves to read, roller skate on the waterfront and dance to regional Mexican music.
Emma Craig
Board Member
Previous Leadership
Terrisa is an atheist, leftist, and the Founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU). She formerly founded Pro-Life San Francisco and is the former President of Democrats for Life of America. Terrisa also serves as Vice President of Secular Pro-Life, and on the Board of Directors for Let them Live and Rehumanize International. Terrisa graduated at the top of her class from Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts and has over 15 years experience in business and team management with several fortune 500 companies. She has been arrested multiple times and spent time in jail for leading peaceful civil disobedience actions in and around abortion businesses. Terrisa has also participated in direct actions for various social justice movements from animal rights to death penalty abolition. Her efforts have been featured in every major media outlet including the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, NPR, BBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, Rolling Stone and the Christian Post.
Terrisa Bukovinac
Founder and Executive Director 2016 - 2021
Kristin Turner joined the pro-life cause as an atheist. In 2020 she founded Take Feminism Back, was an outspoken leader within Young Pro-Life Democrats and Democrats for Life of America, and previously worked full time for the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising. During her time in jail for defending the unborn, she shared a cell with other Christians. It was through their wisdom, and the witness of the unborn children she was defending that she became Catholic.
Kristin is a musician, speaker, and has travelled over 17 states to train young anti-abortion activists. She currently serves as the DC Coordinator of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, where she educates students, counsels at abortion centers, and defends the unborn wherever they are threatened
Kristin Turner
Executive Director 2021 - 2023
