Stephanie Smittle’s history of engagements includes howling in front of roaring amplifiers as a member of southern sludge rock group Iron Tongue, singing ancient chant as a cantor in a 200-year-old Episcopal church and slinking around stage in an avant-garde Kurt Weill opera.Her self-titled debut solo album is a collection of ten songs for voice and electric autoharp, which the Arkansas Democrat Gazette called “stunning” and “incandescent … a skilled and observant lyricist unafraid to express vulnerability and wonder and rage.” The Cave Springs, Arkansas, native has performed as a soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Opera in the Ozarks, and has recorded two albums of genre-hopping original material with The Smittle Band.

As a son of two preachers, Chris was raised with a strong sense of faith. This faith has never collided with his love for science — in fact, it only made it grow stronger. Chris attended Morehouse College on a NASA Scholarship, for physics and math, then studied at MIT to become a nuclear engineer and earn a Ph.D. in urban planning. Now running for Governor of Arkansas, he was first blessed to run the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, which provided the tools and technology Arkansans needed to build businesses and create jobs.

Torii Hunter has established himself as one of the top Major League Baseball players. Torii is a five-time Major League All-Star and the recipient of nine consecutive Gold Glove Awards for his accomplishments on the baseball diamond. In July 2016, Torii was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame.

Dr. Jake Hertzog is a critically acclaimed guitarist, composer and educator whose career to-date has spanned ten albums as bandleader across jazz, rock and classical new music styles. He has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and India and performed and recorded with a diverse cadre of artists including Randy Brecker, Ivan Neville, Mike Clarke, Blondie Chaplin, Anton Fig, Corey Glover, Barry Altschul, Dave Leibman, Ingrid Jensen and many others.