Meet The Team
Judson Aulie
Managing Director
Venice, Florida
What’s the most energizing thing about your work?
I love getting to do work that makes a positive difference in people’s lives. By helping nonprofits and churches make a positive difference, our team gets to have a part in their meaningful work as well.
A personal accomplishment that you’re proud of?
I love rock climbing. My biggest climbing accomplishment was climbing (redpoint) a 5.12c after weeks of failed attempts.
The career advice you’d give your younger self?
Always be learning, do what you love, and take risks.
Luke Pahlau
Director of Operations
Anchorage, Alaska
I’ve flown in a small bush plane over a glacier in Alaska. Really cool!
A quote that resonates with you?
“Walk the narrow road. Live the larger story. Battle for a better love. It’s why we’re alive.” – Larry Crabb
The most energizing thing about your work?
Nathan Stump
Director of Ad Grants Management
Soldotna, Alaska
What’s the most energizing thing about your work?
Luke Pahlau. He’s a genius!
The values that drive you?
Flexibility, integrity, and efficiency.
A personal accomplishment that you’re proud of?
Getting my Merchant Mariner Credential captain’s license.
Tiffany Nutt
Google Ad Grants Manager
Marquette, Michigan
What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
Hiking or paddle boarding on Lake Superior.
A quote that resonates with you:
“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” – Michael Scott
A personal accomplishment that you’re proud of?
Starting a business and going back to university, completing my BFA.
April Tix
Google Ad Grants Manager & SEO Specialist
Houston, Texas
What’s one fun fact about yourself?
I once won a costume contest as Wonderwoman and have a giant panda head costume.
What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
By a lake, ocean, or hiking.
What are the values that drive you?
Integrity, education, honesty, holistic health (physical, spiritual, mental)
Destiny Peterika
Paid Social Strategist
Tampa, Florida
What’s one fun fact about yourself?
I’m 6’1! My family wanted me to play sports growing up since my father played basketball overseas – I dabbled in a few sports but I eventually turned down a shot put scholarship.
What’s one piece of career advice you’d give your younger self?
Don’t be afraid to ask! Ask and it shall be given to you.
What’s something on your bucket list?
I want to travel to Australia – BUT I am not looking forward to the spiders!
Keagan Henman
Web Design & Online Church Manager
Minerva, Ohio
What are your favorite organizations to work with at CNP?
I enjoy the variety of churches and non-profits I get to work with. This always leads to new problems to solve, allowing me and the client to grow as we find a solution.
The values that drive you?
Excellence and independence.
The career advice you’d give your younger self?
“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” (1 Timothy 4:12)
Doug Neal
Account Manager & Content Writer
Venice, Florida
What’s one item on your bucket list?
Hiking the Camino de Santiago.
What are your favorite organizations to work with at CNP?
Organizations that are fighting to preserve nature.
The career advice you’d give your younger self?
Intentionally embark on a journey of self-discovery as early as possible. Many people spend years doing something they don’t love, not because they couldn’t do something else, but because they don’t know what else to do, and they don’t know what else to do because they don’t know themselves.
Valerie Riese
Content Writer & Editor
Appleton, Wisconsin
What’s on your bucket list?
Visit Ireland. And Alaska. And the Holy Land. And write full time. Not necessarily in that order…
What energizes you about your work?
I get so lost in the research, brainstorming, outlining, creativity, and editing that I forget to eat until I can’t concentrate because my tummy growls so loudly! I love everything about the entire creative writing process, especially that I get to do it for a purpose bigger than myself.
The career advice you’d give your younger self?
Yield to the creative process. The Vomit or Scribe method from Scribe Media freed me to write like total crap for the first draft. After I hurl my ideas out on the keyboard, I then clean it up before anyone else catches whiff of the stink. People tell me the end product is pretty good, so I’ll keep embracing the barf.