Elena Marks has been president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation since 2014 and a non-resident fellow in health policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute since 2010. Previously she…

Angel Quesada has worked as a visual artist, producer, curator, exhibition designer, musician, arts administrator, digital editor, and ethnographer. He concentrates on large scale murals, creating dozens of commissioned pieces…

Jay Jenkins is the Harris County project attorney for the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, where he promotes broad justice reforms across Texas. Mr. Jenkins is the president and co-founder (with…

A native Houstonian, Anita Wadhwa is a classroom teacher and restorative justice coordinator at YES Prep Northbrook High School, author of Restorative Justice in Urban Schools: Disrupting the School to…

Angela Blanchard is a globally recognized expert practitioner in community development and long-term recovery. Blanchard's breakthrough strategies have successfully revitalized neighborhoods, while providing a powerful road map for cities across…

Howard Henderson is the founding director of the Center for Justice Research and professor of justice administration in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.…

A Texan by birth, Amilcar Shabazz is professor of history and Africana Studies in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.…

Daniel Anguilu is a well-known street artist who works as a METRORail conductor. Anguilu moved to Houston from Mexico when he was 14 years old with limited English. He learned…

Anat Ronen is a multilingual Houston-based self-taught artist who became a professional artist after her family immigrated from Israel. Ronen’s work can be found throughout Houston including on highways, bridges,…

Ann Dumas is consulting curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and curator at the Royal Academy, London. Over the past 25 years she has been…