Since 1993, Diana Foss has guided urban wildlife policy as part of the Wildlife Diversity Program of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She also coordinates the Houston Area Bat…

Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music and Division Chair of Musicology at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987.  He has published…

Susan Lorette Dunn is artist teacher of opera studies in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, Australia, graduating…

Larry Rachleff (1944-2022) was the Walter Kris Hubert Professor of Orchestral Conducting and Music Director of the Shepherd School Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. He also served as music director of…

Beth White, one of the nation’s leading urban park planners. In June 2016, Ms. White joined the Houston Parks Board as president and CEO to lead the organization in implementing and…

Mr. Ho is director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voting Rights Project. He supervises the ACLU’s voting rights litigation and advocacy work nationwide, typically managing active cases in…

Lois Parkinson Zamora is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Houston, where she holds a Moores Distinguished Professorship. She frequently writes about the visual arts and their relationship…

Michael Guidry, curator of public art, came to UH in 2005 after serving more than nine years as the assistant registrar and curator of traveling exhibitions for the New Orleans…

David Rainbow is an instructional assistant professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He teaches and writes about modern Russian and Eurasian history and is currently writing…

Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after…