Vox Peregrini Leadership


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Jonathan Greer

Vox Peregrini Board Member (Secretary)

Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021

Jonathan Greer serves as Secretary on the Vox Peregrini Board. A bass/baritone, he is a founding member of vox peregrini and is a sought after bass-baritone, singing in several professional choral groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He also performs standards and new standards with his collaborator Steve Crozier throughout the Metroplex and invites folks to check out his website at jonnygreer.com. After a decade in the wedding and events industry, Jonathan has taken a different path, now pursuing a Master of Divinity at Brite Divinity School.


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Shelley Krispin

Vox Peregrini Board Member (Treasurer)

Shelley Krispin joined the Board as Treasurer in Fall 2020. A music appreciator, Shelley played and taught piano in the first half of her life, sang in the Arizona State University Concert Choir for 2 years - and then went on to be a wife/widow, mom/stepmom (of 6), grandmother (of 20), great Gma (of 1 so far) and CFO/partner of a 50+ Burger King restaurant company. Her degrees (BS of Accounting and MBA) are from ASU - and completed while a working mom. Shelley is also a bit of a walker (part of the Camino, Wicklow Mountains in Ireland - twice - and the Dingle Peninsula/Ireland) - and hopes to walk until she drops. She has spent the last 15 years surrendering to Mystery, trying to catch her breath in the presence of Wonder, and being so grateful for Beauty.


Arlie Langager

Vox Peregrini Board Member (Vice President)

Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021

Arlie Langager serves as the Vice President of the Vox Peregrini Board, has walked Estes Park with Vox Peregrini in 2021, and Wicklow Way in 2015, 2017, and 2019. She conducts the choirs and teaches voice at MiraCosta College in San Diego County. Arlie serves as President-Elect of the California Choral Directors Association. She is Vice President of the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, and coordinates the annual scholarship auditions awarding over $100,000 each year. Arlie attended The University of Texas at Austin for her doctoral studies before moving to California in 2008. Arlie is looking forward to walking the Camino in Spain with new and returning Vox Peregrini pilgrims in June 2022.


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Gil Stafford

Vox Peregrini Board Member

Vox Peregrini Pilgrim Guide, 2015, 2017, 2019

Gil Stafford is a Vox Peregrini Board member and has led Vox on three pilgrimages through Ireland. He is a writer, spiritual guide, life coach, and alchemist of the soul. He speaks, leads retreats, and is a consultant. He played professional baseball, was head baseball coach at Grand Canyon University, winning three national titles. Stafford was the university’s president four years. Life is a pilgrimage and he has taken many, including walking Ireland coast-to-coast. His publications include works on higher education, leadership and spirituality, including his latest book, Wisdom Walking: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life. Gil and his wife, Cathy, are founders of the Wisdom Way Interfaith School.


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John Wiles

Vox Peregrini Board Member (President)

Founder and Artistic Director

John Wiles is the Founder and Artistic Director of Vox Peregrini. He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Northern Iowa. His choirs can be heard on the CENTAUR and MARK Record Labels and they have performed extensively throughout the United States and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards from the University of Northern Iowa and The University of Texas at Austin. His research is published by the Choral Scholar and he has presented his work at the American Choral Directors Association National Convention. John is married to Amy Lea Wiles and together they raise their two children, Ruthie and Tommo, along with a rambunctious goldendoodle, Daisy.

People need wild places.  Whether or not we think we do, we do.  We need to be able to taste grace and know again that we desire it.  We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers.  To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about us in our place.  It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd.        BARBARA KINGSOLVER, Small Wonder