Meet the LDW Team

Heather Carson –- Latter-Day Woman™ Advisor

I love to create. My memories of childhood are filled with making things. I was always working on some sort of project – and then sometimes trying to sell them to my poor neighbors.

When I finally found the career of Design during college, I couldn’t get enough. Many of my peers specialized in a certain area but I couldn’t pick and went with the degree that let me do as many things as I could. I got a BA in Design and got to play around with industrial design, photography, illustration, interior design and graphic design.

Since leaving school I have worked most of the time in graphic design – for other design companies and now on my own. I have done projects in the other disciplines as well. I am a serial entrepreneur and love to create logos, branding, and business identity materials. But I can’t stay away from anything creative for too long. Since having a family I added sewing, crocheting, and general mess making to my list of creative adventures. I could spend hours in the art store deciding which supply or technique to try out next.

I have a passion for vintage goods, simple design, and love to re-mix old stuff into new things. I love giving thrifted things new life. I am a mom to six kids, a wife, and work from my home studio along side my kids who love to make art messes as much as I do.

I am happy to be a part Latter Day Woman™. I like the opportunities it provides LDS women to reach across the world and celebrate our unique differences while also enabling us to see ourselves in each other.

Find me at:
Memo Graphic Design (my design site): http://www.memographicdesign.com
The Modern Hive (my blog): http://www.themodernhive.com
Good Look Cookbook (a DIY design blog): http://www.goodlookcookbook.com

Jessica Peterson –- Art Director & Graphic Designer

Jessica is the art director for Latter Day Woman Magazine™ and loves the opportunity to make beautiful pages and connect with women all over the world. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art and visual communications, with an emphasis in graphic design. She also works as a freelance graphic artist, specializing in wedding invitations, logos, business identities and all kinds of custom lovelies. As a Utah native, Jessica loves visiting Lake Powell, being outdoors, baking and cooking, and going to the symphony. She and husband Todd are expecting baby number one, August 1, and couldn’t be more excited.

Jessica feels very blessed to have the opportunity to meet and work with so many Latter-day Saint Women from all over the world through Latter Day Woman Magazine™. She is grateful to be a part of a community of women who support and encourage one and another.

Find me at:
jpcreativedesign.blogspot.com

Kim Christenson –-  Editor-in-Chief

Kim loves meeting people from different walks of life, and loves being a part of Latter Day Woman™ as it helps LDS women around the world connect and uplift each other.

Kim graduated from BYU with a degree in English and went on to work as public relations specialist for Covenant Communications, then associate editor for Utah Valley Magazine.

She spent her high school years in Australia and enjoyed the eye-opening experience of being one of only a few members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her entire K-12 school.

Kim enjoys reading good books, eating great food, exercising (to work it off) and watching “Gilmore Girls” re-runs. She also dabbles in voice over and acting. Kim currently lives in Utah with her husband and their baby girl.

Find me at:
http://www.bellymamas.blogspot.com

Sheri Joi –- The Grapevine™ Personal Interviewer

Sheri Joi is a single mom from Happy Valley, Oregon who wants to make a difference in the world. She has two little cubs that she adores, so she is always busy with some sports or scouting event. Her favorite time of day is snuggle time and reading time. Sheri is on a continual search to find purpose in life and to be the change she would love to see in the world. She wants to make a big deal about the amazing women she meets every day who do what they can do to create a better world.

When she met Daryll several years ago, Sheri knew they would work together but didn’t know what that would look like. They shared their visions with each other over the last couple years and it has been exciting for Sheri to witness the amazing vision she has is really making it happen with Latter-Day Woman™.

Sheri is honored to join the team doing something she is very passionate about – talking to other women about what they are passionate about through The Grapevine – Latter-Day Woman’s™ live interview center. Sheri shares Daryll’s vision of the greatness within every woman and wants to shine that light from the top of the mountains.

Find me at:
http://www.findyourkumu.com

Alexis Tanner –- Advertising Manager

My name is Alexis Tanner and I am the new Advertising Manager for Latter Day Woman Magazine! I just became a stay at home mom with my first baby due at the end of February. My husband and I met in a Single’s Ward at BYU where I graduated with a BS in Elementary Education. I grew up in Southern California and the beach will always be a huge part of me. My goal is to get back there every year. We currently live in Utah so my husband can finish school and then we’ll go wherever he gets in to Physical Therapy school – we’re hoping the University of Utah which may be a little hard at first for our die hard true blue BYU family. I love blogging, digital scrapbooking, reading, playing pretty much any sport, the sunshine, being with my family, spending time with friends, and of course working for this magazine!

Kate Lowe –- Advertising Representative

In High School, I studied and found one of my passions, American Sign Language. This gave me an opportunity to live in Ghana, Africa for a month while teaching at a deaf school. I attended Brigham Young University-Idaho where I discovered an opportunity to go work as a Character Performer at Walt Disney World for a semester. Through talking to several friends about the Gospel in Florida, I met Peter who is now my husband, who was serving a mission at that time.

I am blessed to be a stay-at-home-mom, and love being able to spend so much time with my little boy. Our little family of five ( which includes two dogs) lives in Utah where we enjoy spending time in the outdoors, cooking, doing yard projects, do-it-yourself-projects, visiting family and trying new things. Some of my hobbies include, sewing, running, cooking healthy -and unhealthy on occasion, organizing, blogging/journaling and most of all, learning new things.

Rebecca Servoss –- Web Designer/Developer

Rebecca is a stay at home mother of two and the owner of Persnickety Graphic Design. She earned her Marketing degree from the University of Utah. Rebecca specializes in graphic and web design for small businesses. Her work can be seen on billboards, city buses, businesses and events all over the country or you can check it out online at her website. Rebecca likes blue slurpees, blue gum and corn.