Sonya Shafer 

Simply Charlotte Mason

Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than 20 years studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte’s gentle and effective methods of education. Her passion for homeschooling her own four daughters grew into helping others and then into Simply Charlotte Mason, which publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at simplycharlottemason.com.

 Dr. Randy Guliuzza

 The Institute for Creation Research (ICR)

 Dr. Randy Guliuzza is a captivating speaker who presents well-documented and often humorous scientific and biblical talks to audiences of all ages. He has represented ICR in several scientific debates at secular universities and in other forums. Dr. Guliuzza has a B.S. in Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, a B.A. in theology from Moody Bible Institute, the Doctor of Medicine from the University of Minnesota, and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. Dr. Guliuzza served nine years in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps and is a registered Professional Engineer. In 2008, he retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Air Force, where he served as 28th Bomb Wing Flight Surgeon and Chief of Aerospace Medicine. He is the author of Made in His Image: Examining the Complexities of the Human Body, Clearly Seen: Constructing Solid Arguments for Design, Five Minutes with a Darwinist, and Twenty Evolutionary Blunders: Dangers and Difficulties of Darwinian Thinking, and is a contributor to Guide to Creation Basics, Creation Basics & Beyond, Guide to the Human Body, and the Made in His Image DVD series.

Faith Berens 

 HSLDA / Special Needs Consultant 

 Faith Berens lives in Fauquier County, Virginia, with her husband Matthew, daughter Hailey, and son Hayden. Faith joined the HSLDA team of special needs consultants in 2008 and homeschools her children. She also works as a private educational consultant and evaluator. Some of her passions include reading for pleasure, singing, traveling, nature/science, leading Bible studies, and teaching reading to struggling students. Faith holds a master’s degree in reading from Shenandoah University. She has over 15 years of teaching experience that includes serving as a classroom teacher in public and private Christian schools, Reading Recovery teacher, reading specialist, NILD educational therapist, home educator, co-op instructor, and tutor. Her areas of expertise are early childhood literacy, reading assessment, and the identification and remediation of reading difficulties and disabilities.

Dennis & Naomi Gundersen
Speaker/Author, President & Owner of Grace and Truth Books

Dennis Gundersen is President and owner of Grace and Truth Books, a Christian publisher of over 100 books, with a primary focus on reprinting 19^th century children's stories, with a character building emphasis.  Dennis served as Senior Pastor at two Tulsa churches from 1984 through 2009 and is now devoted to writing, publishing and conference speaking.  He is the author of four books, the best known of which are "Your Child's Profession of Faith" and “Courtship or Dating: So What’s the Difference?” and is a frequent speaker at church conferences, men's retreats and home education conventions. He and his wife Naomi have been married 43 years and they have four adult sons who were all homeschooled for their entire pre-college education.  For relaxation, he is an avid hiker, cyclist, and waterfall photographer.