Gina Donovan is a conservation consultant and the former executive director of the Houston Audubon Society.  Co-founder of the East Texas Forest & Wildlife Coalition, she also served on the…

J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. is an Episcopal priest and a Jungian analyst. He is a popular lecturer in the fields of psychology and religion and has held many distinguished lectureships. …

Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. His collection of essays, Twenty Poems that…

Oleg Sulyga is a violinist with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Mercury Chamber Ensemble and other music organizations in Houston. As a chamber musician, he has performed…

Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun of the Congregation of St. Joseph, a leading activist for the abolition of the death penalty, and the founder of Survive, an…

Daron Shaw is Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor & Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He serves on the editorial board for…

Timothy Hester is professor of piano and director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Mr. Hester has performed as a soloist…

Aralee Dorough is principal flutist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and first appeared as soloist with the HSO in 1992, at the beginning of her second season as principal. Ms.…

Deborah Cramer is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT. Her book, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World, is the companion publication to the Sant Ocean Hall, a…

J. Dennis Huston is Professor Emertius of English at Rice University, where he taught from 1969 until 2017. He has won a number of George R. Brown teaching awards, the…