Christy Oliver is the founder and director of Step Out Summit and Areté Press. She earned M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Animal and Range Science from North Dakota State University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Subsequently, she was awarded a Congressional Science Fellowship. Christy was home educated K-12 by parents who were pioneers in the homeschool movement of the early 1980s, and she started a microschool in Virginia where she taught for 11 years.
She is a guest author for American Experiment North Dakota.