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Faith Stults is Program Manager at BioLogos where she supports K12 educators through resource recommendations and training opportunities. She is also leading a team to adapt the <a href="http://biologos.org/integrate">Integrate curriculum</a> for use in churches and other settings. Faith's passion for science education and for healing the church’s relationship with science came out of her experience as a science-loving kid growing up at Christian schools. After double-majoring in Astronomy and Religion at Whitman College, she worked as the Project Coordinator for the AAAS’s program on the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. She researched science education at Christian high schools as part of her MS in Science Education at Stanford University and then spent seven years teaching high school physics and astronomy at a Christian high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also recently completed an MS in Astronomy from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia in her "spare time".

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April Maskiewicz Cordero, PhD, is a professor of biology and Dean at Point Loma Nazarene University. Her research focuses on developing more effective approaches for teaching ecology and evolution that enable students to develop not only factual knowledge, but biological ways of thinking and reasoning about the living world. As a Christian biologist trained in science education research, she is in a unique position to investigate science students’ perceptions of the relationship between scientific issues that evoke controversy (i.e. origins, evolution, human origins) and Christian faith. Dr. Maskiewicz Cordero gave a TEDx talk on evolution and faith and she was featured in “From the Dust,” a BioLogos sponsored documentary. She is also active in several professional development projects with schoolteachers as well as university biology faculty, is one of the six authors of the <a href="http://biologos.org/integrate">BioLogos Integrate curriculum</a>, and was one of four professors coordinating the PLNU/BioLogos Biology by the Sea Christian school teacher program.

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Christy Hemphill and her husband Aaron work as linguistic consultants on a minority language Scripture translation project in southern Mexico, where she homeschools her three children. Prior to her work in Mexico, she worked as an educator for eight years in various contexts including high school, museum education, college, and adult education. Christy has a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from Old Dominion University, and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics/Bible Translation from the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics at Dallas International University.

Christy serves on the curriculum development team for <a href="https://biologos.org/integrate/">BioLogos Integrate</a> and on the BioLogos Advisory Council. She has also served as a moderator on the <a href="https://discourse.biologos.org/">BioLogos discussion forum</a> since 2015, and you can often find her there sharing her pursuit of good biblical exegesis and good science with anyone who wants to join in.

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Sarah Bodbyl Roels is Associate Dean at the Van Andel Institute Graduate School where she supports the curriculum, student fellowships, and student internships. Sarah earned her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas, where she studied mating system evolution, behavioral ecology, and conservation. Postdoctoral experiences at Michigan State University formed Sarah's continuing interests in science communication and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Prior to her current appointment, Sarah supported faculty development at Colorado School of Mines, offering professional teaching and learning opportunities across the university. Sarah enjoys assisting continuous improvement of teaching and learning across all instructional levels.

Sarah is a member of the BioLogos Voices speakers bureau, the Advisory Council, and the BioLogos <a href="https://biologos.org/integrate/">Integrate</a> curriculum development team. Sarah passionately explores the relationship between science and faith and appreciates opportunities to learn from others.

She and her husband Steve, also a scientist, are avid birders and their family includes a horse, a donkey, a dog, and numerous chickens.

Sarah Bodbyl Roels

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Diane Sweeney is a veteran instructor and curricula developer with over 25 years experience in education. She is currently an AP biology instructor and department head at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, CA. She previously taught at the Punahou School in Honolulu, HI; Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, CA; and Prince of Peace Lutheran School in Fremont, CA. Her publications include writing for the biology textbook program Biology Exploring Life (lab manual and teacher’s instructions) by Campbell, Williamson, Heyden (Pearson 2009). Diane has a BS in biochemistry from UC Riverside and an MA in education from Stanford University.

Diane has been active with BioLogos for many years. Through a BioLogos grant, she co-created with Pastor Joshua Hayashi <a href="http://www.theauthoroflife.org">Author of Life</a>, a collection of 7 short documentary films and companion curricula for churches and schools. Diane is currently serving on the BioLogos Advisory Council and on the curriculum development team for <a href="https://biologos.org/integrate/">Integrate</a>.

Diane enjoys cultivating native Californian plants and growing fruits and vegetables in her garden when she is not hiking or biking in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Kendra Terpstra is a homeschool teacher with 15+ years of experience in education. She earned her degrees in Secondary Education, English and History at Central Michigan University and began her career teaching at a large urban high school in Michigan. For the past 8 years, Kendra has homeschooled her 3 children which has involved researching the varying curriculum options and approaches as well as modifying and supplementing curriculum to fit the needs of her children. In addition to her teaching experience, Kendra has worked on a variety of curriculum development projects, including <a href="https://biologos.org/biologos-integrate/">BioLogos Integrate</a>.

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Mark Witwer served for 41 years in four Christian schools, teaching many courses but especially Earth Science, Physics, Zoology, and middle school life and physical science. Mark also served as an administrator, leading curriculum in three schools and serving as Dean of Faculty in one. He is currently adjunct Professor of Christian Education at Knox Theological Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and loves helping teachers, pastors, and homeschooling parents explore what it means to teach Christianly.
Mark has a bachelor’s degree in English with a science minor (Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana), a master’s degree in secondary school science (Villanova University), and a PhD in religion and society studies, focused on Christian education (Omega Graduate School, Dayton, Tennessee). In 2000 he was invited to be one of two teachers representing the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) at the National Teacher Forum in Washington, D.C. More recently, he was selected to participate in the Faith-and-Science-Teaching (FAST) project that created the units at <a href="http://teachfastly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://teachfastly.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636656020495000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHswasWDgiJHCBKNEEgjflrjO7T3w">teachfastly.com</a>.
Mark’s primary academic interests are in Zoology, especially herpetology (the study of amphibians and reptiles), and the intersection of faith and learning, especially in science. He enjoys walking, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwitwer/">nature photography</a>, reading novels aloud with Andrea, his wife of 40 years, and spending time with their son’s family.

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Kathryn Applegate is a former Program Director at BioLogos. While working on her PhD in computational cell biology at  Scripps Research (La Jolla, CA), she became passionate about building bridges between the church and the scientific community. In 2010, she joined the BioLogos staff where she has the privilege of writing, speaking, and working with a wide variety of scholars and educators to develop new science and faith resources. Kathryn co-edited with Jim Stump <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Changed-Mind-About-Evolution/dp/0830852905" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.amazon.com/How-Changed-Mind-About-Evolution/dp/0830852905" data-sk="tooltip_parent">How I Changed My Mind About Evolution</a> (InterVarsity Press, 2016).

Among many other projects during her time at BioLogos, Kathryn most recently led the development of <a href="https://biologos.org/integrate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://biologos.org/integrate/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Integrate</a>, a new science and faith curriculum for home educators and teachers at Christian schools. Kathryn and her family enjoy exploring the beaches and state parks of Michigan and are helping to plant a new PCA church in Grand Rapids.

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