About
AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association) is a Christ-centered community of women who write, speak, teach, and share God's message with the world.
Writing and speaking can be rewarding, but they can also feel lonely. That's why AWSA exists—to provide encouragement, friendship, mentoring, professional growth, and meaningful connections with women who understand the unique joys and challenges of this calling.
Whether you are an experienced author, a first-time writer, a speaker, a teacher, a podcaster, or a woman with a message God has placed on her heart, you'll find a welcoming community ready to help you grow.
For more than two decades, AWSA has connected Christian communicators through networking, training, conferences, awards programs, mastermind groups, prayer, and industry relationships. Our members encourage one another, celebrate successes together, share opportunities, and help one another navigate the writing and speaking journey.
AWSA is a program of Right to the Heart Ministries, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Membership is open to women who are actively pursuing writing, speaking, teaching, or ministry opportunities and who affirm our Statement of Faith and Code of Ethics.
You don't have to walk this journey alone. Welcome to the sisterhood.
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Leadership
AWSA is led by women who understand the publishing world, the platform work, and the spiritual care behind a public calling.
CEO & Founder, Right To The Heart Ministries
Founded AWSA on September 11, 2000. Founder of Right To The Heart Ministries (1999). Bestselling author of 36+ books. Publisher of Leading Hearts Magazine. Based in Colorado.
Serving AWSA since 2000
President, AWSA Steering Committee
AWSA President. Speaker, author, and coaching director.
Treasurer, AWSA Steering Committee
Joy A Schneider – AWSA Power Speaker Joy is passionate about equipping and encouraging people to stand in the spiritual battles they encounter in life. Her first book, Identifying the Hierarchy of Satan: A Handbook for Wrestling to Win! has been a resource book for many in the Body of Christ. Her newest book is How to Keep Grief from Stealing Your Destiny. This book is the first in her Battle Over the Anointing series. Joy is a Board member of AWSA. She also works with the Cyrus Foundation, a ministry to Israel. She has two awesome daughters and their husbands, and eight amazing grandchildren.
RTTH Board · AWSA Steering Committee
Director of the AWSA P.O.W.E.R. Speaker Certification. Podcast host and board-certified Christian life coach.
RTTH Board · AWSA Steering Committee
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AWSA Steering Committee
Evelyn Johnson-Taylor Ph.D. – AWSA Certified Coach and P.O.W.E.R. Certified Speaker As a ministry leader for several decades, Evelyn lives to encourage, empower, and equip women to WIN. She loves to share God’s Word and her life experiences through speaking, coaching, mentoring, training, and writing books showing women how to apply biblical principles so that they can walk in the fullness of all that God created them to be and accomplish. Her practical teaching affirms women, builds their confidence and reminds them they can produce fruit, even in a dry season. One of her greatest joys is to help women set goals and develop the necessary plan needed to succeed. Evelyn is an Ordained Minister, Theology Professor, Award Winning Author, Mentor, a P.O.W.E.R. Certified Speaker, Certified LINKED Personality Coach and Certified Writer Speaker Coach. She served as founder and president of Women of Promise International Ministries Inc. for 14 years, a nonprofit outreach ministry offering hope and healing to women. She also served with her late husband Pastor Scott Taylor as the founding pastors of Good News Bible Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Good News Global Ministries in Wesley
AWSA Steering Committee
An avid reader and writer, Rhonda Dragomir is a seventeenth-generation direct descendant of Martin Luther. She lives in the heart of idyllic horse country in central Kentucky, and her degree in Social Work from Asbury University prepared her for more than forty years of ministry as a pastor’s wife. Rhonda has written articles and opinion pieces for many denominational and regional publications, and she now writes full-time. She has won awards for both fiction and nonfiction writing, and she was named the 2019 Writer of the Year by Serious Writer, Inc. Her website may be viewed at www.rhondadragomir.com .
AWSA member
Marketing, Communications & Brand Director for AWSA / Right to the Heart Ministry Network. Founding Editor & Art Director of Leading Hearts Magazine. Springfield, MO.
Founding Board Member
Founding board member of AWSA. Director of the Florida Christian Writers Conference. 2022 Lifetime Achievement honoree.
Serving AWSA since 2000
Coaching Director
Co-founder of LINKED Personality. Director of the Carolina Christian Writers Conference. First-class AWSA certified coach.
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