Alison Leland is an instructor in political science and the director of the Honors Pre-Law and Public Service program at the University of Houston’s Honors College. She is a graduate of Spelman College and the Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Leland is a trustee of the Menil Collection and is a board member of the Texas Defenders Service, which provides representation to indigent death row inmates, and the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation, which sends high school students to Israel. (Spring 2025)