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A scholar, speaker, entrepreneur, and pastor, Dr. Nicholas Pearce (@napphd) serves as an award-winning Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and as the founder and chief executive officer of The Vocati Group, a boutique global management consultancy, and assistant pastor of Chicago's historic, 12,000-member Apostolic Church of God. A leading expert on values-driven leadership and organizational transformation, Dr. Pearce is the author of the bestselling book The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life's Work (St. Martin's Press) and has served as a trusted strategic adviser, executive coach, and keynote speaker for over 200 leading corporations, social impact organizations, governments, and communities of faith on six continents, including Allstate Foundation, Archdiocese of Chicago, Aspen Institute, BP, Capital Group, Chicago Public Schools, Echo, The Episcopal Church, EurFacebook, FMC, Google, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Health Care Service Corporation, Hearst, Hyatt, JPMorgan Chase & Co., KPMG, McDonald's, Morningstar, NASA, Nike, Northern Trust, PepsiCo, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Surge Institute, Teach for America, United States Department of State, United States Olympic Committee, and Whirlpool.

Dr. Pearce is deeply committed to civic engagement and philanthropy, serving as a trustee of the Field Foundation, Chicago Children's Museum, Fuller Theological Seminary, McCormick Theological Seminary, and Seminary Co-Op Bookstores. He has been a Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago since 2015 and has also been named one of Chicago's 40 Game Changers (under 40) by WVON/Ariel Investments, a Galbraith Scholar by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, a Public Voices Faculty Fellow by The OpEd Project, and Kellogg's MSMS Professor of the Year (2015). He has also been honored for excellence by the White House, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Mustard Seed Foundation, Wentcher Foundation, Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, National Black MBA Association, and Union League Club of Chicago, among other notable institutions. He and his award-winning work have been featured in global media outlets including ABC, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS Evening News, The Chicago Tribune, Christianity Today, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, CNN, Crain's Chicago Business, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, iHeart Radio, The Los Angeles Times, Marketplace, MSNBC, The New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, PBS, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Univision, UrbanFaith.com, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Dr. Pearce holds the Ph.D. and M.S. in Management & Organizations from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, and the S.B. in Chemical Engineering & Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a concentration in Religious Studies earned in conjunction with Harvard Divinity School.

Andrew DeVigal is an Emmy award-winning storyteller with expertise in journalism innovation, community-centered journalism, media collaboration, and civic engagement. His latest report which he co-authored, "Assessing Oregon鈥檚 Local News & Information Ecosystem 2022," focuses on the role of local news in the civic health of communities. DeVigal holds the endowed chair in journalism innovation and civic engagement and is the director of the Agora Journalism Center, the forum for the future of local news and civic health at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism & Communication.
 
A constant connector and bridge builder, DeVigal鈥檚 leadership at the school has led to industry-recognized initiatives such as Gather, a platform to support community-minded journalists, and the Doers Gathering, a toolkit to drive community-driven solutions addressing pressing local issues. Prior to joining the UofO, DeVigal was the multimedia editor at The New York Times where he directed the multimedia team and conceived and produced ground-breaking story forms and processes that continue to shape the industry today.

Regina Lawrence is a nationally recognized academic expert in civic engagement, journalism innovation, political communication and gender and politics. Her latest report which she co-authored, "Assessing Oregon鈥檚 Local News & Information Ecosystem 2022," focuses on the role of local news in the civic health of communities. Lawrence is associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication in Portland and research director for the Agora Journalism Center. Regina wrote a book about Hillary Clinton鈥檚 2008 presidential campaign. She is currently the editor of the journal Political Communication. She can also speak to how candidates and reporters use social media as well as the current controversies over police use of force.

David C. Kirkpatrick (PhD, University of Edinburgh) has written or co-edited multiple books that explore intersections of politics, religion, and social movements—with the University of Pennsylvania Press (2019), Rutgers University Press (2022) and his current book project with Oxford University Press (expected in 2023). This book, Blood and Borders, explores how stories and images of violence shaped voting constituencies and participation in the U.S. public square. He has also produced leading research with scholars from around the world—at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Germany, funded by the German government (UNC Press, 2022), at Dartmouth College funded by the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), and at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Kirkpatrick’s research speaks to the increasing diversity of the U.S. voting public, how religion impacts political discourse and engagement, as well as the diversity and importance of Latino communities in the United States.