Stephen Vladeck is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts and constitutional law. He has argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower federal courts and…

Perry Allen Price joined HCCC as executive director in 2016. Prior to coming to Houston, he was director of education at the American Craft Council in Minneaoplis and curator of…

Vaccine scientist Maria Elena Bottazzi is co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine. (Spring 2021)

Gwen Bradford is an associate professor of philosophy at Rice University, where she specializes in value theory and normative ethics within the field of moral philosophy. Her book Achievement (Oxford…

George Sher is the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University and is the author of six books including In Praise of Blame (Oxford University Press, 2005) and…

Eric Berger is the co-founder of Space City Weather and is a certified meteorologist and senior space editor at Ars Technica. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist at the Houston…

Tony Payan is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is…

Kevin Shanley is the former CEO of SWA Group, an international landscape architecture and urban design firm that was instrumental in the landmark 1992 plan for Sims Bayou, saving it…

Auggie Campbell is the executive director of the Association of Water Board Directors, the former president and CEO of the West Houston Association, and the co-founder of Houston Stronger, which…

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar is a fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute and an associate professor in the department of international affairs at the Bush School of Government…