D. Michael Lindsay, Ph.D., serves as the President of Taylor University, one of the nation’s leading Christian universities.   Since he assumed the Taylor presidency, the University has experienced significant momentum in admissions, advancement, athletics, community collaboration, employee and constituent engagement, and faith expression on campus.  Lindsay credits these good results to a talented leadership team and board and the servant-leadership of faculty and staff across the Taylor campus.

Lindsay came to Taylor after a decade of distinguished service as president of Gordon College on Boston’s North Shore. Prior to arriving at Gordon, Lindsay was a member of the sociology faculty at Rice University, where he won multiple awards both for his teaching and academic research. He is the author of two dozen scholarly publications and numerous books, including, Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, which was nominated for the nonfiction Pulitzer Prize, and his award-winning View from the Top, which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. His most recent book, Hinge Moments, was launched globally on the Taylor campus in 2021 and is published with InterVarsity Press.

Lindsay earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and graduate theological degrees from Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Baylor University where he has been named Outstanding Young Alumnus. He has lectured on six continents and is recognized for his insights on leadership and higher education.

Lindsay has been married for over 25 years to his wife Rebecca, an accomplished teacher and speaker who serves as Taylor’s Ambassador for the University. They are the proud parents of three daughters, Elizabeth, Caroline, and Emily.

Greg Chafuen serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Public Policy. He crafts legislation and advises government officials on policies that promote religious liberty and other civil rights.

Since joining ADF in 2020, Chafuen has authored state and federal legislation defending fundamental civil rights. He regularly provides testimony and legal analysis on how proposed legislation will impact constitutional freedoms and advises lawmakers and policy organizations on the importance of laws and policies that protect First Amendment rights.

Prior to joining ADF, Chafuen spent three years as a white-collar defense litigator at a prominent law firm in Washington, D.C., and one year as a law clerk to the Hon. Alice Batchelder on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Chafuen earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, graduating cum laude in 2015. While at Notre Dame, he served as president of the Notre Dame chapter of the Federalist Society.

John Schilling is Founder and President of 2020 Strategies, LLC, which provides consulting services on non-profit management, government and public affairs, and the nexus of policy, advocacy and elections. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the American Federation for Children and the Defense of Freedom Institute. 

Over a three-decade career, John has successfully led and managed organizations in the non-profit, government and private sectors. He has appeared on FOX News and FOX Business, NPR, local television and talk radio programs around the country. His writing has appeared in The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, RealClear Politics, National Review, Washington Post, and state papers around the country.

In 2021, John completed 15 years of non-profit leadership at the American Federation for Children (AFC), the nation’s largest school choice advocacy organization. As President, he helped the Federation, and its affiliates, become the largest and most effective education reform group in the country.

John leads the local coalition supporting the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, helping to secure multiple program reauthorizations and 18 years of annual funding. For the past several years, he also managed a lobbying and coalition effort in support of the federal scholarship tax credit that was recently included in the One Big Beautiful Act (OBBBA).

John has spent more than two decades in K-12 education reform. This includes four years as Associate State Superintendent and Chief of Policy at the Arizona Department of Education where he helped pass and implement a school tuition tax credit, expansion of the state’s charter school law, and an accountability system to track student achievement and education spending. He also served two years as Chief of Staff for Education Leaders Council, a national organization for reform-minded state school chiefs.

John’s extensive work in the non-profit sector has given him valuable knowledge and insight into the philanthropy world. He’s had the privilege of working and building relationships with donors and foundations across the country and, having been both grantor and grantee, he is a firm believer in protecting donor intent and philanthropic freedom to advance good public policy.

During his early career, John worked on two presidential campaigns and dozens of U.S. House and Senate campaigns. He’s a former Director of Research and Opposition Research for the Republican National Committee and served under four national party chairmen. He’s worked for a U.S. Senator, served in senior roles for two Members of Congress, and was a political appointee in former California Governor Pete Wilson’s administration.

John’s private sector experience includes time in the early 1990’s as research director for a top Sacramento, California public policy firm. He started his first consulting firm in 2003 and his clients included Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful 2003 campaign for Governor of California and the Educational Testing Service.

John graduated from the University of San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a minor in philosophy. His education experience includes a semester abroad in Oxford, England and graduate work at American University in Washington, D.C. He has two grown children, a beautiful granddaughter, and resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Valerie Londono serves as senior counsel and deputy director of the Church and Ministry Alliance (CMA) with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, she helps provide leadership to the CMA program, which serves as a resource to ministries by providing the day-to-day operational legal advice they need to fulfill their religious missions.

Prior to joining ADF in 2022, Londono served as assistant general counsel for Brevard Public Schools, a large K-12 public school district in Florida, where she served as the district-wide Title IX Coordinator and trained staff on Title IX Compliance. In addition, for nearly 10 years she served on the in-house legal counsel team for Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ). In that role, she gained extensive corporate and transactional experience in the context of an evangelistic global ministry active in 191 nations.

Londono earned dual bachelor’s degrees, summa cum laude, in English and Magazine Journalism from the University of Florida, and her law degree, magna cum laude, from Regent University School of Law, where she served as the executive editor of the law review and studied international human rights in Strasbourg, France. She was an ADF Blackstone Fellow in 2008. After law school, she clerked for two federal judges on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Londono enjoys teaching in the pre-law program at The King’s Academy in West Palm Beach, FL. She formerly taught nonprofit law as an adjunct professor for Regent Law. She frequently speaks on religious liberty topics to church and ministry audiences, specializing in educational institutions.