Latter-day Profiles

David Reichner works as a business partner and Director of Team Fredette Utah, an elite brand in New York & Utah. He was previously the Head Coach for the San Diego Surf (ABA). He has worked with the L.A. Clippers as a Director of the Jr. Clipper Foundation; running camps, Leagues, private training and AAU teams.

Dave McCann is a studio host and play-by-play announcer for BYU sports on BYUtv. He is a former news anchor for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City and KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.

Reid Moon is the owner of Moon’s Rare Books in Provo, Utah. Moon graduated from BYU in 1985.   After 30 years of running Moon’s Rare Books in Dallas, Texas, he decided to return to Provo.  His beautiful bookshop is located in The Shops at Riverwoods in Provo.  It’s really a museum disguised as a bookshop. About half of the items on display are for sale–the rest are part of a permanent museum collection.

He specializes in four main categories: Bibles, early Mormon books and documents, classics and high points in literature, and early American and European history.  He even has some incredible “Movie Props” that please and excite everyone that views them. His collections are beyond most people’s imaginations and he truly brings history to life as you tour through this magnificent shop.

For the Truman Brothers, music and the gospel are in their DNA, Sons of Dan Truman of Diamond Rio and Nashville Tribute Band fame and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, they spent their formative years in green rooms, backstages, and tour buses as well as sacrament meetings and Young Men activities. Their pedigree would suggest an automatic attraction to the family business, but post-mission life found the brothers pursuing higher education. It wasn't until attending college in the same town that their musical roots would take hold. They began writing songs together for the first time, and despite their Nashville upbringing, their sound found a home in the catchy choruses and undeniable melodies of modern pop music.

Kerry Muhlestein is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. from BYU in psychology with a Hebrew minor, spending time in the intensive Hebrew program at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. He then proceeded to receive an M.A. in ancient Near Eastern studies from BYU and a Ph.D. in Egyptology from UCLA. He has taught at Cal Poly Pomona, UCLA, and BYU-Hawaii. His research focuses on the texts and iconography of Egyptian religion, international contact between ancient Egypt and her neighbors, the Egyptian juridical process, Egyptian literature, and the overlap of the biblical and Egyptian worlds, including the ancient and modern history of the Pearl of Great Price, among other things. He and his wife, Julianne, have six children.

Grant and Si Foster share their unique experience of serving as missionaries in Spain during the Covid Pandemic. Si hosts the food blog A Bountiful Kitchen. Grant is a partner in the law firm Dorsey and Whitney.

Christian Mawlam shares his miraculous story of overcoming cancer. Mawlam started his own video production company in England before coming to the United States to teach at BYU-Idaho where he teaches video production.

Kate Holbrook, PhD is a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saint women and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of women’s history at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints history department, she writes, studies, and interprets history full-time. Her major research interests are religion, gender, and food.

Kathy Aiken is a former broadcast journalist. She began reporting with the Utah Jazz in 1987 and five years later joined the staff of KSL-TV as the first female sports anchor in Utah. She worked as a producer, reporter, and anchor for KSL Sports. While at KSL, Aiken also anchored the Mormon Times program for over a year and worked on projects for the Mormon Channel radio program. She worked at Brigham Young University as both a sports reporter for BYUtv and as Newsroom Manager at the Universe, the student newspaper. Kathy is the founder of the “Forget Me Not Project” 

Kirby Heyborne is an actor, singer, musician, songwriter, comedian, and narrator. He is known for his work in films centered around the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heyborne has also worked extensively as an audiobook narrator. Kirby is the host of the BYUtv show “Making Good”.