Aimee Saesim Leukert

  Liss’ warm smile lit up the screen as she joined our videoconference from behind her desk in northern California, where she holds the position of operations director for Kaiser Permanente Health Connect. “This all started,” she began, looking around her office, “with the CNA license I earned at 16.” Liss shook her head in…

  My mom always reminded me,” Dr. Wesley Phipatanakul recalled quietly, blinking through his wire-rimmed glasses, “that the most important thing in the world was my relationship with the Lord.” That, his mother declared, was the reason she sent him to Adventist schools. “She said that over and over—that by providing me with an Adventist…

The establishment of Adventist education began in the late 1800s after the foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination had been set and its leaders began to look past the immediate structure of the church—both literally and figuratively.1 As the story goes, a group of church elders gathered for a meeting one evening to discuss the…