Mark DiBella is Chief Executive Officer of YES Prep Public Schools, a high-performing charter system serving more than 17,000 students from underserved communities on more than 20 campuses. He began…

HISD’s deputy superintendent Rick Cruz joined the district in 2008 as a Teach For America corps member and bilingual fifth-grade teacher at Moreno Elementary School, where he was twice named…

Matthew Rojansky is president and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, a private grant-making foundation established to promote the development of a healthy and independent private sector and the rule of…

Anila Daulatzai is a socio-cultural anthropologist and the Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught in prisons and universities across three continents, and has been conducting…

Justice Gordon Goodman was elected to the First Court of Appeals in 2018 and is a member of the Texas State Bar, Pennsylvania Bar, and Energy Bar Associations. Before serving…

Jane E. Houser is a life-long Quaker. (Spring 2022)

Ameer Abuhalimeh is executive director of the Islamic Dawah Center.  (Spring 2022)

Dr. D. Z. Cofield is senior pastor at Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church. (Spring 2022)

Farshid Emami is an associate professor of art history at Rice University where he specializes in art and architecture of the Islamic world with a focus on the early modern…

Ryan LeVasseur is the Managing Director of Direct Real Estate for Rice Management Company, Rice University’s investment arm, and is responsible for investments in strategic development opportunities in Houston. Mr.…