Jay Jenkins is the Harris County project attorney for the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, where he promotes broad justice reforms across Texas. Mr. Jenkins is the president and co-founder (with…
Angela Blanchard is a globally recognized expert practitioner in community development and long-term recovery. Blanchard's breakthrough strategies have successfully revitalized neighborhoods, while providing a powerful road map for cities across…
Howard Henderson is the founding director of the Center for Justice Research and professor of justice administration in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.…
A native Houstonian, Anita Wadhwa is a classroom teacher and restorative justice coordinator at YES Prep Northbrook High School, author of Restorative Justice in Urban Schools: Disrupting the School to…
A Texan by birth, Amilcar Shabazz is professor of history and Africana Studies in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.…
Anat Ronen is a multilingual Houston-based self-taught artist who became a professional artist after her family immigrated from Israel. Ronen’s work can be found throughout Houston including on highways, bridges,…
Daniel Anguilu is a well-known street artist who works as a METRORail conductor. Anguilu moved to Houston from Mexico when he was 14 years old with limited English. He learned…
Christine Jelson West joined Houston First Corporation as cultural programs manager in 2015. She serves as the curator and manager for both the permanent and temporary public art programs across…
Ann Dumas is consulting curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and curator at the Royal Academy, London. Over the past 25 years she has been…
Abra Schnur was processing archivist of the Texas Jazz Archive at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library, from 2017-2019. (Fall 2021)
