R. Devan Jensen is the executive editor at the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. With a master’s degree in English and an emphasis in British history, he has edited eight books on Pacific Latter-day Saints and has researched the European, Asian, and American colonizing forces that that have controlled Micronesia. He was a full-time missionary for two years in the Micronesia Guam Mission, where he learned Pohnpeian and grew to appreciate the island culture of kindness and compassion toward outsiders. He has presented at many academic conferences on Latter-day Saint and Pacific history. He has conducted many interviews with the people of Micronesia, focusing primarily on those living in Chuuk, Guam, Pohnpei, and Utah.

Rosalind Meno Ram is the associate academic vice president for curriculum and assessment at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. She is a native CHamoru scholar and the second CHamoru sister missionary from Guam. As an alumna of BYU–Hawaii in TESOL with a minor in linguistics, she earned her master’s degree in library science and a doctorate in education leadership. She was hired as a library faculty member at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, where she became an original cataloger specializing in Pacific materials. For some time, she also managed the Pacific Island Collection there. Her doctoral research involved the study of CHamoru parental involvement in elementary-age children’s lives. She has taught numerous courses with subjects that include intercultural communication, the Pacific Islands, and student development. Rosalind is an experienced and published oral historian specializing in Pacific Island women. Her efforts and love for BYU–Hawaii led her to being an associate professor. In 2012 she was invited to be in the academic division as an administrator. She has presented at many academic conferences on Pacific history, including the Pioneers in the Pacific conference, the Mormon Pacific Historical Society conference, and other regional conferences.

Karen Benson served a mission in Australia in 1980–81, where she had several companions and investigators from the islands who began showing her a different way of seeing the world. Karen and her husband, Del, moved to Saipan in 1991 with their four young boys, who loved the movie Swiss Family Robinson. The boys often imagined they were living on an island just like in their favorite movie. Karen taught school for many years. She claims she has learned the most from her students. She enjoys aspects of the CHamoru and Carolinian culture, which includes a love of family, respect for their elders, and showing kindness to strangers. Karen has a bachelor’s degree from Westminster in English education and a master’s degree from Utah State University with an emphasis in folklore. She finds stories about cultural differences both fascinating and entertaining. While Del was serving as a branch president, he found a collection of member stories and saved them so they wouldn’t get lost or destroyed. Many of his photos have appeared in magazines and Church documents.

Po Nien (Felipe) Chou is a professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University–Hawaii and former religious educator for the Seminaries and Institutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He holds a BS from George Washington University and an MS and PhD from Brigham Young University. He has had a variety of teaching and administrative assignments with Seminaries and Institues, BYU Religious Education, Church Correlation Research Information Division, and the Church History Department. His research has taken him to various countries throughout the world, including those in the Asia and Pacific region. He has authored or coauthored various Latter-day Saint articles and a book, Voice of the Saints in Taiwan.

Clinton D. Christensen is a historian who has worked for the Church History Department at Church headquarters since 2001. He is a member of the Global Support and Acquisitions Division. Over the course of his career, he has traveled to and collected the history of the Church throughout Latin America and in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. He has published articles on international and pioneer Church history topics. He wrote the history of the Brigham City Utah Temple for the Temple Department and was involved in writing two books that were published for the Laie Hawaii Temple centennial in 2019. Christensen earned a BA and MA in English from Brigham Young University and a Master of Library and Information Science and Archival Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Herryann Anepo Hinton was born on the island of Weno in the Chuuk Islands, located in the Federated States of Micronesia. A religious observer in her early years, she was a teenager when she met missionaries, gained a testimony for herself, and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At a young age she developed an interest in reading English books, which helped her develop an understanding of the English language. This knowledge would help her years later when she was called to serve as a full-time missionary in the Georgia Macon Mission. Afterward, she attended and graduated from Brigham Young University–Hawaii, where she studied art. For the past eleven years, Hinton has worked as a translator and interpreter for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has worked as a translator and interpreter at general conference and has contributed to many projects translating documents, material, and scriptures into her native language. In addition to these roles, she has served as the language coordinator for the interpretation team.

Casey Paul Griffiths is an associate teaching professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He holds a BA in history, an MA in religious education, and a PhD in educational leadership and foundations from BYU. He has written extensively on the history of Latter-day Saint education. As part of his research, he has traveled to Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, and Kiribati, carrying out interviews and collecting historical materials. He has given several presentations at international conferences on Latter-day Saints in the Pacific.

Paul A. Hoffman is president of Hoffman Legal Corporation, located in Mission Viejo, California. He is licensed to practice law in California and Utah and is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and various federal district courts. He received a BA in political science and a JD degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1988, where he graduated cum laude and was a published member of the Law Review. Paul has been a contributing author to various publications on early California and Latter-day Saint history, focusing on the contributions of members of the Mormon Battalion. He is also a living history reenactor and ardent student of American military history with a focus on World War II, the American Civil War, and the Mexican-American War.

Phillip H. McArthur is a folklorist and anthropologist at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, where he serves as the director of the Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian & Pacific Studies. His work in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere in Micronesia closely examines social power and Indigenous epistemologies in Micronesia and the Pacific Islands as well as the Marshallese’s tumultuous relationship with the United States. Dr. McArthur has spent much of his career documenting and analyzing Marshallese narratives, mythology, songs, and performances. [editor’s note: there is a new bio, ask Devan]

Daniel O. McClellan is a scripture translation supervisor in the Church’s Publishing Services Department. He worked in and with the Asia North and the Pacific Areas from 2014 to 2020, supervising scripture, core music, and temple translation projects in Bislama, Chamorro, Chuukese, Kiribati, Kosraean, Palauan, Pohnpeian, Tahitian, and Yapese. Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree in ancient Near Eastern studies from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in Jewish studies from the University of Oxford, another master’s degree in biblical studies from Trinity Western University, and a doctorate in theology and religion from the University of Exeter. He occasionally teaches as an adjunct instructor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

Vonda A. Skousen was first introduced to the Pacific people in 1995 when she and her husband, Orval N. Skousen, were called to be full-time missionaries at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. She earned a master’s degree in family resource management. At BYU–Hawaii she taught physical education, health, music for elementary teachers, group piano, and clarinet for three years. The love that blossomed in Hawaii for the Pacific people continued to grow when she and her husband received another mission call to Palau. While there, they received permission to copy genealogy information from histories and ahnentafel charts gathered in the early 1900s, then put the genealogy information in a standard computer format. Before leaving Palau, Vonda compiled a Church history of the island from the records and handwritten history the previous missionaries had written, plus pictures and current interviews with some of the members.

Eric Tonini served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Marshall Islands/Kiribati Mission, speaking I-Kiribati and Marshallese. He has since graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in global supply chain management. Eric and his wife, Esther, reside in Houston, Texas.

Iotua Tune is a Service Center manager and Area Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taborio, Kiribati. He previously served as the first counselor of the Marshall Islands/Kiribati Mission presidency. He has also served as a bishop, branch president, district president, and stake president. He and his wife, Maii Toanimatang, are the parents of seven children.