Please join us in 2027...
Registration is now closed for the 7th Annual Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk, and we loved having you there. If you missed it, please sign up as a member at Michigan for Vaccine Choice (MVC)—we offer both free and paid memberships.
Joining will ensure that you are kept in the loop on our 2027 Vaccine Injury Walk, which will likely be held in SE Michigan. We take turns hosting this incredible and necessary event on both the west and east sides of Michigan, but with more help from volunteers, it is possible we could host the event in more places throughout Michigan on the same day!
Will you join us? We'd love it if you did!
2026 Speakers
Our speakers helped give a voice to others.
Michigan State Rep. Gina Johnsen
Gina Johnsen has been a community leader, a businesswoman, and a leader in the faith movements in Michigan for many years. She currently serves the 78th house district as a State Representative. This includes the 4 counties of Eaton, Barry, Ionia, and Kent.
As a state representative, she serves on the following committees: Judiciary, Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, Natural Resources and Tourism, and Families and Veterans. Gina is currently running for state senate, district 33, for the 2026 election.
She also leads the Michigan Pray organization based in Lansing across from the Capitol, connecting people of faith in Michigan with our state government.
Dr. Christina Parks
Dr. Christina Parks graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in 1992 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan in 1999. She did her graduate research in the field of cytokine signaling. Cytokines are the chemicals that the immune system uses to communicate. Thus, Dr. Parks brings a wealth of knowledge about how vaccines affect the immune system.
Dr. Parks has also been outspoken in warning that there can be no medical freedom when doctors and scientists who have dared to tell the truth are silenced and punished. Dr. Parks garnered significant attention for her testimony on Michigan House Bill 4471 which seeks to ban discrimination based on vaccine status. In her testimony, she challenged the assumption that DTaP, Flu, and COVID vaccines prevent transmission.
Teresa Cichewicz
Teresa is currently serving as Director Emerita of The Betrayal Project USA and a longtime advocate and supporter of MVC based in West Michigan. After losing her father, Robert Michanowicz, and close 39-year-old friend Jessica Hallgren following failures during hospitalizations in 2021, Teresa became actively involved in helping families share their stories and raising awareness about their experiences with hospital protocols.
Drawing on 18 years of professional leadership she has helped organize advocacy efforts, public events, media outreach, and grassroots initiatives across Michigan and nationally. Most recently, Teresa has helped coordinate BPUSA’s trip to Washington, D.C. bringing families and advocates around the nation together around Senator Ron Johnson’s September 28 roundtable on COVID-19 hospital protocols. Her focus now is working with lawmakers around the state and nation to help make hospital reforms and seek accountability for the 1.6 million deaths of those that are lost due to the hospital protocols.
Katie Cunha, Integrative Homeopathy
Katie Cunha received her certification from Caduceus Institute of Classical Homeopathy (2017) in Acute Homeotherapeutics, CFH (Certificate in Foundational Homeopathy) in 2018 and full CPH (Certificate in Professional Homeopathy) in 2020.
She would like to share:
"I have always had horrible allergies, asthma, chronic neck and back pain, hormonal imbalance and digestive issues for most of my life. When I started using more natural products, eating clean and staying away from pharmaceutical drugs, my health improved, but my issues never went away completely. When I discovered Homeopathy, I realized a whole new level of health.
After 2 years of healing, all of my original issues had been resolved. I don’t have to eat a special diet, spend thousands on vitamins, or supplements either to maintain (even though we eat very clean and take some immune-boosting supplements)."
Joel Troyer
Joel is a single father of four, based in Middlebury, Indiana, where he works in sales for a sport court coatings and surfacing business. He also works as a Communication Regulation Partner for non or minimally speaking individuals with autism; teaching them autonomous communication through spelling. He enjoys the gym, time spent with his kids and sharing his faith with others as well as relaxing on the lake. As the father of a 13-year-old son with profound non-speaking autism and three younger children, Joel speaks from lived experience about raising a family that includes a child with significant support and medical needs, bringing a grounded, faith-driven perspective to both parenting and everyday life.
Kristen Meghan Kelly, MS-OSH
Kristen is an internationally recognized speaker and educator on vaccine safety, health freedom, medical autonomy, and informed consent.
She has appeared at conferences, in documentaries, and across national and international media, and has provided testimony and technical expertise on occupational and public health policies.
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Kristen also volunteers with We The Patriots USA, supporting its health-freedom advocacy and legal efforts. Each year, she helps host the organization's 24-hour Vaccine Safety Awareness Marathon, raising awareness and funds to support its ongoing work protecting medical freedom and informed consent.
Rachel Atwood
Rachel is a passionate advocate for health freedom through special needs advocacy, education, and political work. Rachel is in leadership within the Michigan Republican Party, Michigan for Vaccine Choice, and volunteers with REACT along with other organizations.
Recently, she received a Volunteer of the Year award from the Michigan Republican Party and is currently working to support school board candidates that value medical freedom and parental rights. Her experience working in the House of Representatives, along with media public speaking engagements, has helped increase awareness of medical freedom issues.
2026 Walk Sponsors
Our Sponsors made the 7th Annual Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk possible.
A Special Thank You To Our Event Decorators & Coffee Provider
