Curtis Chang
Curtis Chang bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. In the former world, he is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House, and he teaches strategic planning as a faculty member of American University’s School of International Service.
In the Christian world, he is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. Curtis is also a former senior pastor of an Evangelical Covenant Church in San Jose, California. He is the author of the book The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self
Aryana Petrosky
Before joining Redeeming Babel, Aryana worked for the American Enterprise Institute’s Initiative on Faith and Public Life organizing events and conferences for college students and professors on topics related to Christianity, politics, law, business, and public policy. She was an assistant producer for the documentary For Love of Neighbor: Politics for the Common Good. Aryana is also a writer and aspiring poet. Her work has been published at Comment, Breaking Ground (a project of Comment), Mere Orthodoxy, and Vita Poetica. Aryana is dedicated to the questions that surround how Christians can best serve the public square in all of its various nuances and challenges.
Nancy French
Nancy is a five-time New York Times best selling author, an essayist, investigative journalist, and The Moth story teller. She has published op-eds and articles in the Washington Post, USA Today, the Springfield News-Leader, Time, and other publications too numerous to list. Her investigative journalism into abuse in the context of religious institutions appeared on the front page of USA Today. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee.
Jamie Higdon
Jamie parlayed a career as a senior government communicator at the Department of Homeland Security into strategic communication consulting with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to international relief and development nonprofits. Completing her undergraduate work at one AU (Asbury University) and her masters at another (American University), she’s currently writing her dissertation entitled, “Devils at the Door: Villainization in the Partisan Press.” She lives outside of Washington, DC with her husband Michael and their two amazing children.
DT Slouffman
DT catches good stories and releases them into the world. A ten-time Emmy Award-winning producer, he has led teams at CNN, Sports Illustrated, NBC’s Olympics Group, and TIME. His short documentaries have earned millions of views on digital platforms and seven International Television and Film World Medals. He has spent significant time learning how to use tools from Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and Fritz Heider’s attribution theory to inform the on-camera interview-based content that he produces. Slouffman holds an MFA in Television and Film Production from Asbury University, where he teaches documentary and storytelling courses. Ordained as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, over his morning coffee, he often ponders where our stories fit into God’s work of renewing creation.
Karl Wirth
Karl Wirth is a business leader and entrepreneur. He co-founded Evergage in 2010 and, as CEO, led the company from startup to the leading personalization platform on the market to successful acquisition. He is now leading and scaling the business for the acquirer. Prior to Evergage, Karl had a variety of leadership roles in general management, product management, and marketing for Red Hat (now IBM), RSA Security (now EMC), and Sentillion (now Microsoft).
Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Katherine served as founding director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith & Work (CFW) from 2002 to 2012. Since 2013, Katherine has worked with a variety of churches to establish faith and work ministries and led the New City Fellows program in Raleigh, NC for its first two years. She is also adjunct faculty in Regent College’s Masters of Arts program in Leadership, Theology and Society (MALTS). Katherine received her BA from Wittenberg University, her MBA from the University of Virginia, and has taken seminary classes from Regent College. She has served on the boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fellowship of the Performing Arts, the Theology of Work Project, International Arts Movement and the Carver Project. Katherine co-authored Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.
Ken Miller
Kenneth P. Miller is the Don H. and Edessa Rose Professor of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, where he also serves as the Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. Miller has been a visiting scholar at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2011-2012) and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (2017-2018). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Veritas Forum.
Dakota Pippins
Dakota Pippins was born and raised in New York. He studied applied mathematics as an undergraduate, followed by graduate programs in computer science and in theology. Dakota began working with InterVarsity in 1996 and served as Regional Director in the Mid-Atlantic. He is currently Senior Field Director at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. Dakota and his wife, Jennifer Rodriguez Pippins, have two high-energy boys.