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Mary Wood

Mary Wood grew up in Louisiana and graduated from the Honors College of the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in music performance. She performed with the Orchestra at Temple Square and worked with the Utah Symphony until switching careers to start a thriving professional organizing business. Mary is a single mom of two and loves to seek beauty through reading and travel. Always up for a good road trip, Mary has been to all 50 states and is currently working on visiting the national parks of the US.

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Neylan McBaine

Neylan McBaine is the co-founder and CEO of Better Days 2020, a non-profit focused on popularizing women’s history in creative and communal ways. She has written or contributed to several books, including her most recent, Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West.

Jennifer Kaufmann

Jennifer Bishop Kaufmann was born and raised in Maryland where she developed a love for seafood, life-long friends, and a love for the gospel. She attended Utah Valley State College, then BYU Provo, then BYU Idaho. Jen is married to Reed, whom she met as a counselor at a church camp (EFY). They currently live in Columbus Ohio with their four children. Jennifer is still deciding what she wants to be when she grows up and has dabbled in a bit of everything from health, dance, psychology to communications. Currently, she is a fulltime chauffeur, maid, counselor to teenage girls and puppy wrangler. In addition to those duties, she hopes to keep working her way to being a true disciple of Christ and loving others as He does. Jen also hopes to one day have a full night’s sleep again.

Lita Little Giddins

Lita Little Giddins was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Southern California. She has been involved in the recording, commercial, film, and musical theater industries. She is a graduate of BYU, with a BA in socio-cultural anthropology and an MA in clinical social work. She is currently Assistant Dean for Diversity, Collaboration, and Inclusion for the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at BYU.

J. David Pulsipher

J. David Pulsipher is a professor of history at Brigham Young University–Idaho, where he leads its program in peace and conflict transformation and is also a practicing mediator. He is the author of When We Don’t See Eye to Eye: Using the Weapon of Love to Overcome Anger and Aggression (Covenant Communications, 2014) and editor, with Patrick Mason and Richard Bushman, of War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives (Greg Kofford Books, 2012). He and his wife, Dawn, live in Rexburg, Idaho, and they are the parents of six children.