MEET AUTHOR Jeff Lindsay

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay and his wife, Kendra, are back in Appleton, Wisconsin after nine years in Shanghai, China. Jeff has been providing online materials defending the LDS faith for over twenty years, primarily at JeffLindsay.com and on the former Mormanity blog that started in 2004, recently migrated to “Arise from the Dust” (www.arisefromthedust.com). He also wrote weekly for Orson Scott Card’s Nauvoo Times (NauvooTimes.com) from 2012 through 2016.

Jeff has a PhD in chemical engineering from BYU and is a registered US patent agent. He currently does intellectual property work and innovation support through his Planet Lindsay, LLC. Formerly he was Head of R&D and IP for a personal care startup in the US; Head of Intellectual Property for Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the world’s largest paper companies; a Director at Innovationedge in Neenah, Wisconsin, helping many companies with innovation and IP strategy; Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and associate professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (now the Renewable Bioproducts Institute) at Georgia Tech. He is active in the chemical engineering community and has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Every year since 2015, Jeff has been listed as a leading IP strategist globally by IAM Media in their global IAM300 listing.

Jeff is co-editor of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship and is a vice president of the Interpreter Foundation. Jeff served a mission in the Switzerland Zurich Mission. Jeff and his wife are currently serving as ministering specialists working with the African community in the Appleton, Wisconsin Stake and are currently learning Swahili while still continuing their study of Chinese. He and his wife Kendra are the parents of four boys and have thirteen grandchildren.

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