Lyn Ragsdale is the Radoslav A. Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs and professor of political science at Rice University. She has written five books and numerous articles on the American…

Michelle García is a journalist and essayist and recent Soros Equality fellow with Open Society Foundations. In 2019, she completed the prestigious Dobie Paisano writer’s residency, while roaming a 200-acre…

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton is the first Black Poet Laureate of Houston, Texas. This seven-time National Poetry Slam Competitor, and Head Coach of the Houston VIP Poetry Slam Team, has been…

Nizar Farsakh is a principal at Farsakh Training Consulting LLC;  Chairman of the Board of the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.; and a lecturer at the Elliott…

Lindita Camaj is an associate professor at the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston. She researches individual and societal factors that determine the impact of…

Tamler Sommers is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He works in the areas of moral psychology, free will, and moral responsibility with additional focus on…

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…