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Ryan Baughman

Ryan Baughman is a cofounder and managing director at Sundance Bay, a real estate private equity firm based in Salt Lake City. He and his wife, Shima—who teaches at BYU—are raising five children and share a love of faith, family, and pickleball.

John Heath

John H. Heath is fascinated by history and inspired by accounts of how Jesus Christ works through His children to restore the gospel and gather them in the latter days. At the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, John works with teams across the Church to enhance their programs and publications with stories of amazing latter-day saints. He and his talented wife have five beautiful, hilarious children and three adorable granddaughters. He currently serves as the bishop of a Young Single Adult ward in Orem, Utah.

Jolynn Skousen

Jolynn was born and raised in Provo, Utah. She married her high school sweetheart and together they have six children and 13 grandchildren that she adores. She is a hairstylist and enjoys "salon talk" with her clients. Her hobbies include reading, quilting, gardening and she enjoys exercising in the beautiful outdoors with her wonderful friends. Her newfound love is dipping JoJo’s chocolates at Christmastime.

Todd Skousen

Todd was born in Illinois but grew up in Provo, Utah. He served a mission to Korea. He graduated from BYU in Marketing and received his MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern. He married his high school sweetheart Jolynn and they have 6 children and 13 grandchildren. He owns his own Financial Practice. His hobbies include golf, pickleball and mountain biking. He loves to travel with his wife and spend time with his family.

Eugene Orr

Eugene Orr is the son of David Orr and Martha Wilder Orr. He has four children. He was a founding member of the Genesis Group and was the second counselor in the first Genesis Group presidency. Eugene lived in Canada, where he worked as a naturopathic health counselor. He passed away on September 22, 2025, in Alberta, Canada.

Kristen Howey Dimick

Kristen Howey Dimick lives near snowy Buffalo, New York, with her husband, Matt, and their fluffy dog, Oso. They’re new to the “empty nest” chapter of life and are adapting to the adventure. Kristen has spent more than 25 years working in public affairs, including serving as a spokesperson for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2014 to 2016. A graduate of BYU and a Las Vegas native, she brings a unique perspective shaped by the desert, the mountains, and now the Great Lakes.

Jacob Hess, Deseret News

BJ & Angie Allen

BJ when grew up in Centerville, Utah and then served a mission in Detroit, Michigan. Angie grew up in Farmington, Utah. They met and married while attending BYU. Since then they've had six kids and moved 11 times, with stops both in Utah and all across the midwestern United States for BJ's various jobs and schooling. Angie has a degree in Special Education and BJ has a PhD in Marketing. He teaches at BYU and loves attending sporting events there, and she is the CEO at home. Both BJ and Angie love Jesus Christ and His Gospel with all their hearts. Personal hobbies and interests often feel like something that existed in another life, but when they have a spare moment of time they're usually too tired to do anything more than sit next to each other and hold hands.

Scott M. Peterson, ChFC®, Peterson Wealth Advisors

Rachel Cope

Rachel Cope received a BA and MA in history from Brigham Young University and a PhD in American history, with an emphasis in women’s history and religious history, from Syracuse University. Rachel is a scholar of women’s spirituality and conversion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and works as an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU. Rachel is deeply committed to raising awareness of and funding for obstetric fistula victims throughout the global south.