Although Riley enjoys the arts, music, and a good, sappy romantic comedy, he is usually mistaken for a jock. He currently works full time as a sport psychology consultant, or mental performance coach, addressing innermost fears of most athletes: failure. He enjoys giving athletes, corporate employees, and young people the tools to handle a stressful and frightening world. Riley went back to school at the over-the-hill age of 40 (it’s the new the new 30, right?) to get his master’s degree in sport and performance psychology at the University of Utah in 2017. He is married to the wonderful and talented Georgann Manolis Jensen and they have three beautiful children under the age of 7 (yes, he’s tired). His dream is to serve another mission in France one day (he seems attracted to difficult scenarios), and to enjoy laughing and watching his children make some of the mistakes he made.

Ruth was born and raised in Arizona before heading to college at BYU. She graduated with a journalism degree before starting on an unexpected career path that has taken her through decades of television news across the country, teaching communications at BYU, a stint in Church Public Affairs as a spokesperson, and to her current position as SVP of Global Public Affairs for a multi-national health and beauty company. She and her husband Bryan are the parents of five terrific children, and the grandparents of six grandchildren who both delight them and crack them up on the regular. Ruth recently earned an MBA from BYU. She is currently serving as a member of the YW General Board for the Church.

Denise loves life and is a very happy person. She also loves the outdoors and hiking is her passion.

Grown from the good grounds, Paige celebrates differences among culture, faith, and people. In between story times and adventures with her children she speaks, teaches, and presents on themes radiating from the intersection of the humanities and deity and has addressed thousands on the glory of diversity, the exquisite beauty of individuality, and the fulfillment of creation.

Dallyn Vail Bayles is a professional actor, singer, recording artist and teacher. His performing credits include leading roles in national and international Broadway tours, regional theater productions across the country, and feature films. As a soloist, Brother Bayles has performed with the Tabernacle Choir and other distinguished musical artists, and has recorded several albums. He is a seminary teacher, and has worked as adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University. Brother Bayles is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and BYU. He and his wife Rachel were sealed in the Mount Timpanogos Temple and are the parents of five children.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born in 1938 in Sugar City, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1960 with a BA in English. That fall she moved with her husband, Gael Ulrich, to Boston, Massachusetts so he could begin graduate work at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). During the next ten years, while engaged with her growing family, she worked with a dynamic group of Mormon women to produce a popular guidebook to Boston (a fund-raising project for their local congregation) and helped to found a Mormon feminist newspaper. Exponent II (now a magazine available in print or on-line). Taking one course a semester, she completed an MA in English at Simmons College in 1971.