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…

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…

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…

Najib Ghadbian is an associate professor in the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has been a frequent political commentator for Al-Jazeera Satellite…

Elena Marks has been president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation since 2014 and a non-resident fellow in health policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute since 2010. Previously she…

Angel Quesada has worked as a visual artist, producer, curator, exhibition designer, musician, arts administrator, digital editor, and ethnographer. He concentrates on large scale murals, creating dozens of commissioned pieces…

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…

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.…