Lori Devillez BA

Lori Devillez is a Founder and Executive Director and she Equipped with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology/social work from the University of Southern Indiana, and a background in social work, public administration, and missions, Lori began her career path of serving pregnancy centers in 1992. She quickly moved from a volunteer position, to leadership of a pregnancy center and a maternity home, to becoming president of an Austin, Texas based organization that assists women’s pregnancy resource centers.

From 1997-2005 Lori travelled the nation as President of The Heidi Group, helping centers develop strategic ministry and providing training in all aspects of pregnancy resource center management. Lori’s teachings included superior management and administrative practices, strategic planning for boards of directors, personnel training and certification, fund-raising, development of new centers, exceptional conferences and continuing education, as well media campaigns that reach women in crisis, and more. Lori developed a heart for the 100,000 plus University students in the city of Austin, Texas shortly after she moved there in 1997.

Her vision for a pregnancy center adjacent to the UT campus was realized in January of 2005 when the Austin Pregnancy Resource Center became a reality. In March of that year Lori DeVillez became the executive director of that facility and has planted 12 more pregnancy resource centers in the Austin area to date. Lori has been featured twice on Focus on the Family’s Heartlink, a web-based outreach to women’s resource/pregnancy centers and she was awarded the 2011 Texas Business Woman of the Year Award by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Texas. Lori is recognized and respected for inspiring a “Culture of Life” through her work and she continues to help create “A New Day” as a certified Ziglar Legacy trainer.