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…

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…

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…

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…

Terrence Doody received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1970 and joined the faculty of Rice University where he is professor emeritus in the department of English. He teaches courses…

Christopher Hill, a former career diplomat, served as lead negotiator for the United States in the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue between 2005 and 2009. In a…

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…

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…

David Bomford, chair of conservation and Audrey Jones Beck Curator in the department of European art at the MFAH, led the creation of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for…