Academy Fellows come from a wide variety of personal, academic, and faith backgrounds. What unites Alumni is a sense of calling to pursue lives of integrity through devotion to Christ, through creativity and excellence in their chosen field, through building and supporting communities, and by maintaining accountable relationships with one another.
Range of Experience Among Incoming Fellows
Undergraduate Degrees from:
Arizona State, Baylor, Biola, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Florida State, Furman, Georgetown, Harvard, James Madison, LSU, Messiah, Oxford, Princeton, Rhodes, Rice, Samford, SMU, Stanford, UC-Davis, Univ. of Kansas, Univ. of Michigan, USC, Univ. of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Wheaton, Wofford
Graduate Degrees from:
George Mason, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine, Univ. of Rochester, Vanderbilt
Experience at top firms and organizations;
Deloitte, GAP, Inc,, Goldman-Sachs, KPMG, Teach for America, BBDO Advertising, Bain Consulting; also careers in finacial management, consulting, medicine, education, science research, NGOs, tech development
Academy Alumni
Graduate Degrees from:
Baylor (PhDs), Cambridge, Duke (MBA, JD, MDiv, MTS), Galluadet, Gordon-Conwell, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Notre Dame (JD), Pepperdine (JD), Princeton, Regent, Stanford (MBA), Tufts, Univ. of Chicago (JD), USC, Vanderbilt, Yale (PhDs)
Employment and awards:
Fulbright Scholar, tenured professor at Oxford University, attorney at Department of Justice, Teach for America, Deloitte Consulting, World Vision, Congressional Press Secretary, Booz Allen Hamilton, LifeNet NGO startup; also careers in medical research, investment banking, advertising, social work, non-profit management, arts advocacy, media/journalism, teaching, interior design, IT consulting, corporate marketing, non-profit management, business consulting, church leadership, jazz music
Below are just a few profiles from among our 124 Alumni. If you would like to discuss the Academy experience with any of them, please email us. You can read some of their testimonies on our 10 Year Anniversary site.
David Scudder ('08)
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Undergraduate Degree: Biology, Stanford University
QRE: Science as Worship - an interactive website presenting a harmony of faith and neuroscience and cosmology
Mentor: Dr. Francis Collins
Currently: A teaching fellow at the new African Leadership Academy, a leadership school for top African students from all over the continent in Johannesburg, South Africa
"I came to the Academy hoping to figure out the next steps in my journey. What I got was a crucible where God broke and remade me; a community that I came to love and struggle with and love again, and see in the process the reflection of God's character. I met a mentor who deeply shaped my thinking and my walk with the Lord. It was a formational experience, shaping me in ways that I cannot quite put a finger on yet. All I know is that in all my relationships with my colleagues now, I am constantly referring back to the lessons I learned in the Academy community."
Katie Roland ('03)
Undergraduate Degree: Marketing & Psychology, Bucknell University
Graduate Degree: Communications, Johns Hopkins
QRE Topic: The role of image in advertising
Mentors: Terry Klaassen, Ursula Meese
Currently: Managing Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
“After a few years of working in San Francisco, first at Gap Inc. and then at a start-up non-profit, I was beginning to think more deeply about issues of poverty and philanthropy and I wanted to ground what I believed in deeper theology. My desire for intellectual and spiritual growth was the main reason I came to the Academy... but this idea of living in community and living for – not just alongside others when convenient - was something I was challenged with throughout my time at Osprey Point…To have learned these lessons and to have developed lifelong relationships are two of the greatest gifts of grace that I received through my time the Academy.”
Read more Alumni Profiles
Pioneer Class of 2002
Dr. David Franz - innovative community education
Class of 2005
Jonathan O'Connor - entrepreneur, global health