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Mandy Green

Mandy Green grew up in Orem, Utah, served a mission in Moscow, Russia, and graduated from BYU with a humanities degree. She is married to an exceptional human, Brent, and they are the proud, if not perplexed, parents of three children. Mandy loves learning, great literature, leather jackets, family, caffeinated beverages, and flamingos. Her post-graduate studies include: Egyptian Religion, Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Grail Lore and Hermeticism. Her research focus is the Divine Feminine with a special emphasis on Mary Magdalene. She currently teaches Biblical Hebrew classes online, produces a weekly podcast, Reflecting Light, and is a Tour Educator for specialized, international, Christ-centered tours with "Forbidden Adventure" and "Legacy Tours and Travel."

Karen Zelnick Rivera

Karen Zelnick Rivera works in venture capital developing portfolio communities. That is a huge step up from her first job after college, where she at one point found herself having to stuff a gift bag at each of the 6,015 seats at Radio City Music Hall with Aqua di Gio cologne samples at 4 a.m. (It took years before she could stand the smell of that cologne again.). She loves pancakes and anything strawberry flavored. If she could spend an entire day climbing trees, she would. The fictional character she most identifies with is Anne of Green Gables. Her strengths include watercoloring, water skiing, and water drinking.

Dallyn Vail Bayles

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.

Karl Anderson

Karl Ricks Anderson is affectionately known as “Mr. Kirtland” throughout the Church because of his love, research and writings on Kirtland Ohio area church history. Although he grew up in Utah, he has lived near Kirtland, Ohio for over 50 years. He is a popular author and entertaining speaker. Karl has worked with historians and prophets, written books, including Joseph Smith’s Kirtland and The Savior in Kirtland, helped acquire Kirtland properties and has done much to put Kirtland on the Church history map. He received a bachelor’s and MBA degree from University of Utah and had a career in the corporate world for over 20 years. He then taught and supervised seminaries and institutes for the Church in Northern Ohio.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

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Richard Turley

Richard E. Turley Jr. is a former Managing Director of the Church Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Assistant Church Historian and Recorder. He served as chairman of the editorial board of the Joseph Smith Papers and has authored many books on Latter-day Saint history. During nearly three and a half decades of Church employment, he also served as managing director of the Church’s Family History, Communication, and Public Affairs Departments. He is spending much of his retirement researching and writing about the Prophet Joseph Smith.

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Sara Christensen

Sara and Doug Christensen have been married for nearly 32 years. They went to Junior High and High school together, but only dated after Sara returned from a mission to Portugal. Sara spent several years at BYU, but completed a BA in History at the University of Utah. She runs a business called Jenibee Market with her sister Jeni Gochnour. Sara sells her scented Bluelily Candles and room sprays along with other seasonal crafts at their market and at various outlets along the wasatch front. Sara and Doug enjoy traveling, making food, watching shows, working in the yard, hiking, and playing pickleball together; they enjoy all of the above with their children: Hannah (Brandon), Adelide (Chase), Henry (Kaylie), & Lillie Jane. But above all, they delight in the company of their granddaughters Edith (2) and Posy (6 mo).