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STANFORD PARK HOTEL, MENLO PARK, CA JULY 15 - 19, 2018 special thanks to:

1 Veritas Riff equips Christian thought leaders with the communication skills and peer support needed to become recognized and compelling cultural commentators.

2 schedule

SUNDAY / JULY 15

6:30 PM DINNER tamarine, 546 university ave, palo alto

MONDAY / JULY 16

9:00 AM * DEVOTIONALS CURTIS CHANG menlo room, stanford park hotel

9:30 AM * STORIES OF RESCUE BETHANY JENKINS menlo room, stanford park hotel

10:00 AM BREAK

10:15 AM DESIGN YOUR LIFE WORKSHOP DAVE EVANS menlo room, stanford park hotel

* sessions marked with an asterisk are for Riff Fellows only 3 12:30 PM LUNCH menlo room, stanford park hotel

1:30 PM DESIGN YOUR LIFE WORKSHOP, CONTINUED DAVE EVANS menlo room, stanford park hotel

5:30 PM BREAK

7:00 PM DINNER left bank brasserie, 635 santa cruz ave, menlo park

TUESDAY / JULY 17

8:30 AM * DEVOTIONALS ANDY CROUCH stanford room, stanford park hotel

9:00 AM * STORIES OF RESCUE BETHANY JENKINS stanford room, stanford park hotel

9:30 AM BREAK

9:45 AM VISUAL STORY WORKSHOP KEVIN FRIESEN, DUARTE, INC. stanford room, stanford park hotel

12:00 PM LUNCH stanford room, stanford park hotel

* sessions marked with an asterisk are for Riff Fellows only 4 12:30 PM VISUAL STORY WORKSHOP, CONTINUED KEVIN FRIESEN, DUARTE, INC. stanford room, stanford park hotel

5:30 PM BREAK

7:00 PM DINNER chef chu's, 1067 n san antonio road, los altos

WEDNESDAY / JULY 18

9:00 AM * DEVOTIONALS CURTIS CHANG menlo room, stanford park hotel

9:30 AM DEBRIEF menlo room, stanford park hotel

10:30 AM INDIVIDUAL WORKING TIME menlo room, stanford park hotel

12:30 PM LUNCH menlo room, stanford park hotel

2:30 PM INDIVIDUAL WORKING TIME menlo room, stanford park hotel

* sessions marked with an asterisk are for Riff Fellows only 5 6:30 PM PRE-DINNER RECEPTION menlo room, stanford park hotel

7:00 PM DINNER AND PITCH PREVIEW NIGHT menlo room, stanford park hotel

THURSDAY / JULY 19

9:00 AM * FORMATION AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP ANDY CROUCH los altos room, stanford park hotel

10:00 AM BREAK

10:15 AM DEBRIEF AND WHAT COMES NEXT DAVID HOBBET los altos room, stanford park hotel

11:30 AM CLOSING AND COMMISSIONING LUNCH los altos room, stanford park hotel

* sessions marked with an asterisk are for Riff Fellows only 6 fellows

RAY BARFIELD Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Duke University Ray Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician with an interest in expanding the role of the humanities in the formation of physicians. Ray is married to Karen, who is an Episcopal priest, and they have two children – Micah and Alexandra.

LARA BUCHAK Associate Professor of Philosophy UC Berkeley Lara Buchak is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in decision and game theory, ethics, and philosophy of . Her book, Risk and Rationality, concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions, and vindicates the ordinary decision-maker from the point of view of even ideal rationality. Some other topics she has written on include what we owe to the worst-off in our society; when it is ethical to allow subjects to enroll in medical research; and the nature of faith, both in the religious and the more mundane sense.

7 CULLEN BUIE Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cullen Buie is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Buie explores flow physics at the microscale for applications in materials science and biotechnology. In 2017 Buie co-founded Kytopen Corp., a start-up that was among the first to be backed by The Engine, a venture fund launched by MIT. Kytopen offers a method of genetic engineering 10,000 times faster than current methods. Buie has received many honors including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the DuPont Young Professor award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Buie received his BS from The and earned his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from .

MIA CHUNG-YEE Professor of Musical Studies, Trustee Curtis Institute of Music Mia Chung is a distinguished pianist, music professor, and educational leader. A compelling communicator on stage, in the classroom, on air, and online, Dr. Chung is devoted to sharing the meaning and message of music to listeners of all backgrounds. As a leader, she is aiming to transform music education so that the next generation of musicians can harness the power of music to address the toughest problems facing society. Dr. Chung graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. She received a master's degree from and a doctorate degree from the Juilliard School. She joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012 where she serves as a trustee and as a professor of musical studies.

8 LYDIA DUGDALE Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics Co-Director, Program for Medicine Yale University Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics) is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics, and founding Co- Director of the Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. Her research involves issues related to the preparation for death. She edited the book Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is currently finishing a second monograph on the subject. She teaches medical and research ethics at Yale, where she also maintains an active primary care medical practice.

JOHN INAZU Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion and Professor of Political Science Washington University in St. Louis John Inazu teaches courses in religion and law at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (Chicago, 2016). John is on the board of trustees of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and serves as the executive director of the Carver Project. He and his wife, Caroline, have three children: Lauren (10), Hana (8), and Sam (5).

JIMMY LIN Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology, Natera C. Jimmy Lin, MD, PhD, MHS is the the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), Oncology at Natera (NASDAQ: NTRA), where he is leading the development of new diagnostic technologies for cancer. Dr. Lin is also a 2016 Senior TED Fellow and Founder & President of Rare Genomics Institute. Previously, Dr. Lin was previously at National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI), Washington University in St. Louis, and Johns Hopkins. He has numerous publications in Science, Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, and Nature Biotechnology, and has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, TIME, and the Huffington Post.

9 ROSALIND PICARD Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Co-Director, Advancing Wellbeing Initiative, MIT Faculty Chair, MIT Mind+Hand+Heart Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Empatica Co-Founder, Rosalind Picard, ScD, FIEEE, is founder and director of the Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder of Affectiva, providing automated facial expression recognition, and co-founder and Chief Scientist of Empatica, improving lives with clinical quality wearable sensors and analytics. Picard is the author of over two hundred fifty peer-reviewed articles and of the book, Affective Computing, which helped launch that field. Picard’s lab at MIT develops technologies to better understand, predict, and regulate , including machine-learning based analytics that work with wearables and smartphones, with applications including autism, epilepsy, PTSD, MS, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, biofeedback, migraine and pain.

FRANCIS SU Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College Francis Edward Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, and past president of the Mathematical Association of America. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the UT-Austin and his Ph.D. from . His research is in geometric combinatorics and applications to the social sciences. He has a passion for teaching and popularizing mathematics. From the Mathematical Association of America, he received the 2013 Haimo Award for distinguished teaching, and the 2018 Halmos-Ford award for mathematical writing. He is creator of "MathFeed," the math news app. His hobbies include songwriting, gardening, photography, and theology. Just like mathematics, these are modes of creative expression that blend structure and freedom, truth and beauty, reflection and action. His book, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.

10 hosts & staff

CURTIS CHANG Founder and Lead Consultant Consulting Within Reach With Consulting Within Reach, Curtis Chang leads a team of experts from both corporate and nonprofit backgrounds that serve social entrepreneurs. Curtis's own vocational path has included teaching public policy at Harvard, doing development work in Africa, and running a family foundation. Curtis has won a White House award for his work as a social innovator and is an adjunct professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC.

ANDY CROUCH Partner, Theology and Culture Praxis Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. His two most recent books—2017's The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place and 2016's Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing—build on the vision of faith, culture, and the image of God laid out in his previous books Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. Andy serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016.

11 BETHANY JENKINS Vice President of Forums and Content The Veritas Forum Bethany Jenkins is vice president of forums at The Veritas Forum, a contributor at The Gospel Coalition, and a senior fellow at The King's College. She has also worked in Congress, at the State Department, on Wall Street and in Big Law. She received her BA from Baylor and JD from Columbia. Bethany lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she loves to run along the Charles River.

DAVID SKEEL S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law University of Pennsylvania David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford, 2005) and Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other publications. He has been interviewed on The News Hour, Nightline, Chris Matthews’ Hardball (MSNBC), National Public Radio, and Marketplace, among others, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. Skeel has twice received the Harvey Levin award for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the graduating class, and has also received the University’s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. He is also on the federal government’s Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, having been appointed by Pres. Obama in 2016, because of his expertise on the solvency and bankruptcy of states and nation-states. In addition to bankruptcy and corporate law, Skeel also writes on sovereign debt, Christianity and law, and poetry and the law, and is an elder at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. His newest book, True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of A Complex World (IVP), was released in September 2014.

12 DAVE EVANS Lecturer, Product Design, Stanford, Management Consultant, co-founder, Electronic Arts From saving the seals to solving the energy crisis, from imagining the first computer mice to redefining software — Dave’s been on a mission, including helping others to find theirs. Starting at Stanford with dreams of following Jacques Cousteau as a marine biologist, Dave realized (a bit late) that he was lousy at it and shifted to mechanical engineering with an eye on the energy problem. After four years in alternative energy, it was clear that this idea’s time hadn’t come yet. So while en route to biomedical engineering, Dave accepted an invitation to work for Apple, where he led product marketing for the mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. When Dave’s boss at Apple left to start Electronic Arts, Dave joined as the company’s first VP of Talent, dedicated to making “software worthy of the minds that use it." Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. So he went out on his own; working with start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults. They were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work. Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

KEVIN FRIESEN Senior Facilitator Duarte, Inc. Kevin is a valued and sought-after ambassador of Duarte and their vision to transform people and organizations through unparalleled communication. For over 20 years, Kevin worked in the social sector developing people and programs to serve their communities. Since joining Duarte in 2011, Kevin has influenced thinking and promoted revolutionary change, leading over 400 workshops with over 100 brands and thousands of individuals across the world. He helps awaken natural talents, build confidence, and drive influence in speakers and communicators of all experience levels. Kevin has a BA in Music and a Masters in Conducting from Golden Gate Seminary. He also completed the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurialism from Stanford Graduate School of Business. 13 DAVID HOBBET Executive Director The Veritas Forum David Hobbet serves as the Executive Director of The Veritas Forum. Since 2013, under David’s leadership Veritas has grown its flagship Forum programming to over 135 leading universities in 11 countries. Veritas has also expanded into significant new program areas, all focused on a central mission to present Christ as plausible to questions asked by students, faculty and the university community, and to foster the steadfast inquiry of those questions through thoughtful discourse. Previously, David worked at McKinsey and Company, serving large private and public sector clients on strategy development and organizational effectiveness. He also worked in international economic development with Millennium Promise and in private equity with KKR Capstone. David received an MBA with honors from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Duke University. He and his wife Kimberly and their daughter Lucy live in Cambridge, MA.

KELLEY CHANG-FONG University Engagement Director The Veritas Forum Kelley Chang-Fong serves as special projects manager and university engagement director in the Northeast for the Veritas Forum. Kelley graduated summa cum laude from Gordon College with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Political Science, where she also served as a Presidential Fellow and the Director of the Social Justice Initiative. Prior to joining Veritas, Kelley worked in the public policy world at the American Enterprise Institute. Kelley currently lives outside of Boston with her husband, Henry, and their dog, Norman.

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