Previous Speakers
Dr. Barbara Johnson
Dr. Barbara Johnson’s Ph.D. is in the field of Global Education. She served as Co-Administrator of Louhelen Bahá’í School and Director of the National Children’s Education and Research Center, when that Center was based at Louhelen, 1991-2008.Dr. Johnson served as founding director for the Teacher Education Program of Colorado Mountain College, 2008-2018, and currently serves […]Read More
Dr. Francis Hayden
I am a practicing MD psychiatrist for the past 30 years in the New York City area, having moved here from my home state of Kentucky after medical school. I do evaluations, medication management, treatment planning, and consultation for all ages of patients and all diagnoses including addictions. I am Board Certified in my main […]Read More
Mr. Hillary Chapman
Hillary Chapman is a writer, guitarist, and songwriter who currently lives in Washington DC. He is the creator of the following books, short stories, and songs: Books:* Foreigner: The life story told in vignettes of an Iranian immigration to the Untied States (George Ronald, Oxford, UK, 2019)* Awakening: The story of religious turmoil and development in […]Read More
Mr. Masud Olufani
Masud Ashley Olufani is an Atlanta-based actor and mixed media artist whose studio practice is rooted in the discipline of sculpture. Masud learned of the Baha’i Faith in 1992 as a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta.He was introduced to the Faith from a then-girlfriend who was not a Baha’i but an admirer. According to […]Read More
Christopher Buck PhD Esq
Christopher Buck, Ph.D., J.D., publishes broadly as an independent scholar in a wide range of fields, including American studies, Native American studies, African American studies, religious studies, Islamic studies, and Baha’i studies. His Ph.D. (University of Toronto, 1996) is in the academic study of religions, and his law degree (2006) is from the Western Michigan […]Read More
Mr. Michael Hampton
Mr. Hampton is currently an entertainment consultant, music producer, and executive producer, He is also a team member of the Third Coast Recording Company in Grand Haven, MI., and became a voting member of the GRAMMYs in 2010.In addition to his career in the entertainment industry, he successfully built an investment practice as a Vice […]Read More
Mr. Adib Masumian
Adib received his Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, and his Master’s in Learning Technologies from that same institution in 2015, During his last year of graduate school, he spent a summer abroad in Jordan to study the fundamentals of Classical Arabic, with the goal of being […]Read More
Nabil Khodadad
Nabil L. Khodadad is a lawyer based in London and is a partner in an international law firm.Read More
Shahla Mehrgani, PhD
PhD from the University of Sheffield.Lecturer and researcher in sociology, particularly the sociology of religion with a specific interest in the Baha’i Faith.Read More
Ms. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a reader, writer, and lover of the English language. She is presenting a summary this week of her contributions to a three-year course held in Acuto, Italy between 2005 – 8, under the auspices of the Counsellors and National Spiritual Assemblies of Europe.Read More
