Leadership Speaker Series

Will Eppes, born Willie Donald Eppes, Jr., is an actor/filmmaker who received his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in film and theatre. He attended St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy during his freshman year of high school. The millennial descendant of the renowned astronaut, Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., has currently written a feature-length screenplay on the astronaut’s declassified life, which he is also set to star as him in the future feature-length film. Presently residing in Canada with his wife and newborn daughter, he seeks to represent America well through his service to Canada by continuing the legacy started by his late relative as a skilled aviator. After competing with the entire nation for a single training slot of only 10 candidates, Eppes has been pre-selected for employment with Canada’s third largest airline as a Boeing 737-800 first officer. His dedication to family, education, and faith are the family pillars that he continues to live his life by, in his hopes of continuing on the Lawrence Family Legacy of being useful to mankind.