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  Rob Shepherd

  CSLI City Director, Annapolis
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Rob Shepherd
CSLI City Director, AnnapolisRob Shepherd is a Baltimore-based Captain for Southwest Airlines. He is also a retired Air Force pilot, having spent 25 years flying mostly airlift aircraft and serving in three command positions. Rob holds degrees in Computer Science from the U.S. Naval Academy and University of Idaho, completed the C.S. Lewis Fellows program Year Two in 2014, and has served as a Mentor for the Fellows Program in Annapolis for several years. He also serves as a Senior Fellow with the Severn Leadership Group, an Annapolis-based group that seeks to inspire lives of selfless courage and service to others.  
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  C.S. Lewis Institute

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C.S. Lewis Institute
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C.S. Lewis Institute, in the legacy of C.S. Lewis, works to develop wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in personal and public life. Founded in 1976 by Dr. James Houston and James R. Hiskey, the Institute provides leading teachers who address important issues of the day from the perspective of Biblical orthodoxy, while also providing discipleship for individuals in small groups.
 
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  Colleen O’Malley

  Consultant
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Colleen O’Malley
Consultant
Colleen O’Malley, Consultant, has been a learning and talent development consultant for Deloitte Consulting LLP for the past 6 years. In that time, she has supported multiple agencies and staffs at varying levels throughout the Federal Government, largely in learning strategy, development, and delivery, and the change management associated with those efforts. Colleen completed the C.S. Lewis Fellows program Year One in 2013, then served as a mentor to the class of 2014. A lifelong Christian, Colleen credits the Lord and her parents with instilling in her a sense of and need for Jesus, as well as a desire to make Him known.
 
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  Joseph A. Kohm

  Vice President for Development, CSLI & CSLI City Director, Virginia Beach
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Joseph A. Kohm
Vice President for Development, CSLI & CSLI City Director, Virginia BeachJoseph A. Kohm, C.S. Lewis Institute Vice President for Development and City Director for Virginia Beach. Joe is an attorney and formerly worked as a Certified Major League Baseball Player Agent. He earned his Master’s in Management Science from the State University of New York at Oswego and both his J.D. and M.Div. from Regent University. Joe is the author of The Unknown Garden of Another’s Heart: The Surprising Friendship between C.S. Lewis and Arthur Greeves (Wipf and Stock, 2022.)  
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  Philip Ryken

  Author
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Philip Ryken
Author
Philip Ryken, Author, is the president of Wheaton College. He also completed a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in historical theology from University of Oxford in 1995. He joined Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and became senior minister. He has written over thirty books, including: Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts; Written in Stone: The Ten Commandments and Today's Moral Crisis; The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel with James Montgomery Boice and R. C. Sproul; and Discovering God in Stories from the Bible. Ryken has also coauthored a series of commentaries on individual books of the Bible with R. Kent Hughes.
 
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  Joel Woodruff

  President, C.S. Lewis Institute
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Joel Woodruff
President, C.S. Lewis Institute
Joel Woodruff, President, C.S. Lewis Institute, has worked in higher education, “tent-making,” nonprofit administration, and pastoral ministries in Alaska, Israel, Hungary, France, and Northern Virginia. He served as Dean of Students, Chaplain, and Professor of Bible & Theology at European Bible Institute, where he helped train Europeans both for professional ministry and to be Christian leaders in the marketplace. Prior to joining the Institute, he was on the leadership team of Oakwood Services International, a nonprofit educational and humanitarian organization. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, earned his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and has a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. As a Parish-Pulpit Fellow, he studied Biblical Backgrounds & Archaeology in Israel for a year.