Andy Crouch

Author, Musician, Public Speaker

Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.

Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae’s 2014 single “Non-Fiction.”

From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Catherine Crouch

Professor in the Department of Physics at Swarthmore College

Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch is Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College, where she has taught since 2003. Dr. Crouch has extensive expertise in both materials physics and pedagogical best practices for college and university science. She earned her PhD. at Harvard University studying electrical transport in nanofabricated quantum dots, and then remained at Harvard in a dual postdoctoral fellowship in materials physics and physics education with Eric Mazur. She has published more than twenty peer-reviewed experimental physics research articles and has involved twenty Swarthmore undergraduate students in her experimental work; she has also published a dozen peer-reviewed articles examining the effectiveness of methods for teaching introductory physics. Her work developing and evaluating introductory physics for life science students is currently supported by two National Science Foundation grants. In the fall of 2018, she was elected to the Chair succession of the American Physical Society’s Forum on Education for 2019-22.

Since the summer of 2017, Dr. Crouch has been the faculty director of Swarthmore’s Collaborative STEM Inclusive Excellence initiatives to expand support and resources for students in the sciences during the regular academic year. She also taught in the Swarthmore Summer Scholars program during summers 2016 and 2017 for underrepresented and first-generation students in the sciences.

Jeffrey Metzner

Vice President, Marketing, Media & Communications: P&G Walmart Global Customer Team

Jeff is responsible for Marketing, Media and Communications on P&G’s Walmart US business. Prior to this role, Jeff held
numerous roles across the company, most recently as the OTC Health Care Walmart team leader. Other assignments have
included leading the North America Vicks brand and expanding Always Infinity into Europe and China. In his time at P&G,
Jeff has held assignments in OTC Health Care, Oral Care, Beauty, Feminine Care, Pharmaceuticals and Pet Care.

Prior to P&G, Jeff built homes as a project manager for a large homebuilder in the Northeastern US. Jeff is passionate about
values-based leadership and investing in those around him to build their own personal and business leadership skills. Jeff has
taught Communication Effectiveness both inside and outside P&G and enjoys guest lecturing on effective brand building as
well as personal purpose and values. Jeff has guest lectured at University of Arkansas since 2019 and guest lectured at
Cornell University from 2019 to 2024. Jeff is on the University of Arkansas Retail Advisory Board.

Jeff is a native of Ohio and enjoys spending time with his family outdoors. Jeff and his wife Katy have six children and live in Northwest Arkansas.

Israel Soong

Former Director of Cyber Policy at the White House National Security Council

Israel Soong is former Director of Cyber Policy for the White House National Security Council. While at the NSC, Israel coordinated inter-agency efforts to counter nation-state cyber threats to the United States critical infrastructure, and efforts to bolster the cyber security of allied and partner nations in the Indo-Pacific. Before entering government service, Israel was a senior vice president for strategy at a software company in the United States, and regional vice president for an IT security company based in Asia and the Middle East. He has been a part-time seminary student at Westminster Theological Seminary, and has written for The Gospel Coalition and for the Tennent School of Theology. He graduated from Cornell with a BS in policy analysis in 1996 and obtained a JD from Harvard Law School and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2001. He enjoys kayaking, biking, and hiking Civil War battlefields.