Nathan Barczi, Executive Director, has served as Associate Pastor at Christ the King Presbyterian Church since 2014, where he was awarded the John Stott award from the Creation Project at the Henry Center, a grant that supported him and his congregation in a year exploring the doctrine of creation in an age of science with eminent scientists and theologians.  He is a cohort facilitator for the Boston Fellows, and a fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians.  His Christianity Today article about his work with Harvard geneticists exploring the bioethics of gene editing won an Evangelical Press Association Award. Prior to serving in full-time vocational ministry, he was an economic consultant for The Brattle Group and an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He holds a PhD in theology from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in economics from MIT.  He did his undergraduate work at Stanford University in his native Silicon Valley.  He lives with his wife (another Bay Area native) and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Mia Chung-Yee, Founder and Board Chair, has enjoyed great success internationally as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. In 1993, she won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and in 1997, she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the highest recognition for young concert artists in the United States. Mia graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree from Yale University and doctorate from The Juilliard School. She served as Professor of Music and Artist in Residence at Gordon College from 1991 to 2011 and joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music as Professor of Musical Studies in 2012. She has been a guest speaker and panelist at Veritas Forum events and was a fellow in the Veritas Riff program in 2014 and 2018. Dr. Chung-Yee’s introduction to the Christian study center movement occurred in 2018 when she was a guest lecturer at Cornell’s Chesterton House.

Karl Johnson, Chief Strategist, received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. For ten years he served as the Dan Tillemans Director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center, a division of Cornell Outdoor Education. In 2000, he founded Chesterton House, a Center for Christian Studies at Cornell. In 2008, he became one of the founding members of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers, and has served as board chair for several years. His academic expertise is in the history and philosophy of recreation and leisure. He is the recipient of multiple writing awards, including the 2014 Literary Award of the Christian Society of Kinesiology and Leisure Studies.

Glen Comiso is Senior Director for Institute Affairs in the Office of the President at MIT. He co-manages the MIT Task Force 2021 and Beyond effort, charged to help develop a better MIT in the post-Covid world. He also facilitated the MIT task force defining the structure and priorities for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Other efforts Glen has managed include The Engine (tough tech innovation incubator) working groups and Institute-wide studies on digital health and advanced manufacturing. Glen was Chief of Staff to the MIT president from 2012-2015. He also previously managed administrative processes of the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation (trustees) and the Academic Council (academic leadership), MIT’s primary governing bodies. He joined MIT in 2010.

Daniel Hastings is the Department Head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Professor Hastings earned a PhD and an SM from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 1980 and 1978 respectively, and received a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University in England in 1976. He joined the MIT faculty in 1985. Professor Hastings was MIT’s Dean of Undergraduate Education from 2006 to 2013, head of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division. He was US Air Force Chief Scientist From 1997-1999 and chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2002-2005. He served on the Board of the Aerospace Corporation, the Board of the Draper Corporation and currently serves on the Advisory Board of MIT Lincoln Lab. He has served on several US National Research Council committees including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and the Government University Industry Interactions Roundtable. He has published over 120 papers, written a book on spacecraft environment interactions and won 5 best papers awards. His recent research is focused on Complex Space System Design. 

Ian Hutchinson is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). An international expert on the physics of plasmas, his research underlies the effort to generate practical energy from fusion reactions, the power source of the stars.  A graduate of Cambridge University and the Australian National University, he is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. He has authored over 200 scientific journal articles and two advanced science text books. He has also written and spoken widely on the relationship between Science and Christianity, in events sponsored b Christian organizations and also in the wider secular media. His new book recently published by InterVarsity Press is entitled "Can a scientist believe in miracles? An MIT professor answers questions on God and science." It answers hundreds of the tough questions that young people today have asked him about the relationship between science and Christianity.

Anne McCants is Professor of History and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT where she directs the Concourse First Year Learning Community for the integration of the humanities in the science core. She serves as the President of the International Economic History Association and as an editor for both Social Science History and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Her books include Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam, and several edited volumes on railroad construction in technological, economic and social context.  She has authored numerous articles on welfare in the Dutch Republic, European historical demography, and material culture and global consumption.  Her current work includes a study of medieval building technology in its social and economic context, an examination of the role of gender and family in long-run economic growth, and problems in modeling institutional and economic development.

Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder of Affectiva, which provides Emotion AI, and co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, which provides the first FDA-cleared smartwatch to detect seizures. Picard is author of over three hundred peer-reviewed articles spanning AI, affective computing, and medicine. She is known internationally for writing the book, Affective Computing, which helped launch the field by that name, and she is a popular speaker, with a TED talk receiving ~1.9 million views. Picard is a fellow of the IEEE and the AAAC, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Masters and Doctorate, each in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT. Picard leads a team of researchers developing AI/machine learning and analytics to advance basic science as well as to improve human health and wellbeing, and has served as MIT's faculty chair of their MindHandHeart wellbeing initiative.

Troy Van Voorhis is the Robert T. Haslam and Bradley Dewey Professor and Department Head of Chemistry at MIT. Troy earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics from Rice University and his PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he joined the faculty of MIT. His research focuses on the intersection of quantum mechanics and chemistry.