Alumni Profiles

Overview

Academy Fellows come from a wide variety of personal, academic and faith backgrounds. What unites the alumni are 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 close relationships with one another.

Range of Undergraduate Schools Represented
Arizona State, Baylor, Biola, Cornell, Davidson, Duke, Florida State, Furman, Georgetown, Harvard, James Madison, LSU, Messiah, Oxford, Princeton, Rhodes, Samford, SMU, Stanford, UC-Davis, Univ. of Kansas, Univ. of Michigan, USC, Univ. of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Wheaton, Wofford

Range of Graduate Schools Represented
Baylor, Cambridge, Duke, Galluadet, Gordon-Conwell, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Princeton, Regent, Stanford, Univ. of Chicago, USC, Yale

Professional Experience / Current Career Fields
Medical research, Congressional staff, investment banking, advertising, social work, non-profit management, teaching, legal clerking, interior design, IT consulting, corporate marketing, non-profit management, business consulting, church leadership, professional artist - many Academy Fellows are currently in Masters and PhD programs

Below are just a few profiles from among our 76 alumni. If you would like to discuss the Academy experience with any of them, please email academy@ttf.org.

More alumni profiles coming soon

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
QRE Topic: The role of image in advertising
Mentors:Terry Klaassen, Ursula Meese
Currently: Marketing Executive with WorldVision

“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.”