Jennie M. Johnson is the Executive Director of Liberty Fellowship. She was previously president of Liberty Insurance Services and executive vice president of RBC Liberty Insurance. Her prior experience includes the presidency of Pierce National Life Insurance Company; strategic planning for Liberty Corporation and Ashland Oil; and planning for United Way. An active civic leader, Johnson is vice chair of the Area Commission for Greenville Technical College. She chaired the South Carolina Research Authority and the Greenville Humane Society and was a member of the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University’s Graduate Business School. She also has served on the board of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts. A graduate of Miami University with a degree in Political Science, Johnson earned her M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Virginia and her M.B.A. from Wake Forest University. She resides in Greenville.

Julie C. Ducworth is Connectivity Manager at Liberty Fellowship. Before joining the Liberty Fellowship, she was Communications Director for Edens & Avant. Her prior experience also includes communications management roles as well as project manager with Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). Ducworth is a graduate of Leadership Columbia and Leadership South Carolina and served as communications chair for the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America, planning committee member for Leadership Columbia and member of the Historic Columbia Foundation. She received a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Presbyterian College and a Master of Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. Ducworth resides in Clemson.

Janice M. Wilkins is Seminar Manager of the Liberty Fellowship. She came to the Fellowship from the Biology Department at Wofford College where she served as their Faculty Administrative Assistant. Prior to joining Wofford, Wilkins was an Administrative Assistant and Tax Preparer for Unique Services in Spartanburg. She held previous positions as Bookkeeper and Secretary for Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic School. Wilkins has served multiple terms on the Board of Directors for the Spartanburg Little Theatre also serving as an officer on the Executive Committee and performs in local and regional musical theatre venues. She attended Converse College and lives in Spartanburg.

Kay G. Oken is Senior Administrative Coordinator at Liberty Fellowship. Before joining Liberty Fellowship, she was an Account Manager at C.H. Robinson, Inc.  Her prior experience includes various positions in the hospitality and golf tourism industry, working for Wild Dunes Resort, Kiawah Island Golf Resort and the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.  Oken grew up in Virginia and graduated from James Madison University.  She has lived in South Carolina for 15 years and currently resides in Greenville.

Skip Battle is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute. He is Chairman of the Board of Fair Isaac Corporation and a Director of Advent Software, Netflix, Expedia, OpenTable and the Masters Select family of mutual funds. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Ask Jeeves. Battle retired from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in 1995 as a partner. From 1982 he held a series of management positions in the firm including Worldwide Managing Partner, Market Development, and Managing Partner, U. S. Operations and Planning. He was formerly a Director of Barra, Inc., and was the lead Independent Director of PeopleSoft. He is a trustee of the Berkeley Community Fund and U. S. Olympic Cycling Development Foundation. Battle is a senior moderator for the Aspen Institute and lives in Berkeley, California.

Benjamin Bernard Dunlap, President of Wofford College, was instrumental in the establishment of Liberty Fellowship and has moderated its seminars since its inception. Dunlap attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. He has held academic appointments at Harvard, the University of South Carolina and Wofford College and in 2006 received an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of the South (Sewanee). He serves as a frequent moderator for the Aspen Institute and for its Global Leadership Network in this country and abroad. A prominent lecturer, Dunlap has taught and lectured widely in Europe, India, Thailand and Japan, serving twice as Senior Fulbright Lecturer. He has published numerous poems, essays, anthologies, guides and opera libretti and written and produced award-winning programs for public television. He lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

David H. Langstaff is a senior moderator with the Aspen Institute and chairs its Business and Society Program Advisory Board. He is currently President and CEO of TASC, Inc.  Previously Langstaff was President, CEO and Director of Veridian Corporation and CEO and Co-chairman of Olive Group. He is a trustee of The Committee for Economic Development and is a member of the Defense Business Board. Langstaff is Chairman of This I Believe, Inc., and is involved in other organizations in the fields of the arts, education and the environment. He also performs as a baroque soloist with amateur and professional orchestras.  Langstaff earned a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He resides in Comus, Maryland.

Eric L. Motley is a Vice President and Managing Director of the Henry Crown Fellows Program of the Aspen Institute as well as Executive Director of the Aspen-Rockefeller Foundation’s Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process. He most recently was Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Visitors.  Motley is a Henry Crown Fellow as well as a moderator. His civic involvement includes the Board of Directors of Young Concert Artists, Barry-Wehmiller Companies, The Inter-American Development Bank Foundation, The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s National Council, and the Washington National Cathedral. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Samford University. As a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at St. Andrews University, he earned a Master of Letters in International Relations and a Ph.D. in International Relations as a John Steven Watson Scholar. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Peter A. Reiling is Executive Vice President for Leadership and Seminar Programs and Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute. He is a trustee, officer, and senior moderator of the Aspen Institute, a Henry Crown Fellow, and the founder of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI). Previously, Reiling was President and CEO of TechnoServe. He is co-founder of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and is chairman of the board of the CALI Foundation as well as on the boards of ALI/East Africa, ALI/West Africa, ALI/South Africa, Agora Partnerships and the Energy Access Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Bretton Woods Committee and was named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. Reiling is a graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS) and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), with additional studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He lives in Arlington, VA.

Roger Widmann, a moderator of the Aspen Seminar since 1989, was a principal of the New York-based boutique investment bank Tanner & Co. He was previously Senior Managing Director of Chemical Securities, Inc. (now JP Morgan Chase); founder and CEO of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investment firm in the U.S.; and Senior Vice President of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Widmann is a director of Oxfam America, MicroCredit Enterprises and former president of the March of Dimes of Greater New York. Widmann also is a director of Cedar Shopping Centers, Standard Motor Products and Gigabean Corporation. He was formerly chairman of Lydall Corporation. A cum laude graduate of Brown University, he earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School. Widmann resides in Larchmont, NY.