About our Speakers

D. Michael Quinn earned his PhD at Yale University in 1976 and taught American social history at BYU from 1976–88. His three-volume Mormon Hierarchy series includes Origins of Power (1994); Extensions of Power (1997); and Wealth and Corporate Power (2017). In 2016, the Mormon History Association awarded him its Leonard J. Arrington Award for distinguished and outstanding service to Mormon History.

Lindsay Hansen Park is host of the Year of Polygamy podcast and executive director of the Sunstone Education Foundation.

Shirlee Draper was born and raised in Colorado City, Arizona, within the sect now known as FLDS. After the ascent of Warren Jeffs, she took her children and moved to St. George. She has a degree in Social Work and a Master of Public Administration program, both from the University of Utah. She is the Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the United Effort Plan Trust and Director of Operations for Cherish Families, a nonprofit which offers wraparound services and crime victim advocacy for people from Fundamentalist backgrounds. She is also a founding member of the Short Creek Community Alliance, a grassroots citizens group which fosters voter registration and political engagement inside Colorado City/Hildale.

Terrill Musser