Alvia Wardlaw is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston. She also is a…

Robert Shimko is the Director of the UH School of Theatre & Dance and the Executive Director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival. He is also assistant professor of playwriting and dramaturgy…

Emilee Dawn Whitehurst is the President and CEO of the Houston Area Women's Center. She previously served as executive director of the Rothko Chapel in Houston from 2008 until 2014.…

David Ferris is an associate professor of musicology in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He teaches seminars on the classical style, Mozart, Romantic song, Mendelssohn, Schumann, text…

Patricia Covo Johnson was born in Mexico City where she lived until moving to Houston in 1973.  She earned a BA in art history from the University of California, Santa…

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He studies contemporary and historical mystics, eroticism and sexuality, the paranormal and the…

Martha Serpas is a poet, a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, an advocate for wetland preservation, and a hospital chaplain. Since 2006, she has…

Alejandro Chaoul is a teacher and practitioner of Tibetan yoga and mind-body techniques. He is the founding director of the Jung Center's Mind Body Center Institute an assistant professor, and…

Dr. John Booth is considered a foremost authority on Central America and has co-authored the two most recent editions of Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change (Boulder, CO:…

Donna De Cesare is an award-winning journalist and photographer who has lived in Central America and an associate professor, University of Texas school of journalism and media. Through her books…