Oleg Sulyga is a violinist with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Mercury Chamber Ensemble and other music organizations in Houston. As a chamber musician, he has performed…

Gina Donovan is a conservation consultant and the former executive director of the Houston Audubon Society.  Co-founder of the East Texas Forest & Wildlife Coalition, she also served on the…

Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. His collection of essays, Twenty Poems that…

J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. is an Episcopal priest and a Jungian analyst. He is a popular lecturer in the fields of psychology and religion and has held many distinguished lectureships. …

Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun of the Congregation of St. Joseph, a leading activist for the abolition of the death penalty, and the founder of Survive, an…

Aralee Dorough is principal flutist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and first appeared as soloist with the HSO in 1992, at the beginning of her second season as principal. Ms.…

Daron Shaw is Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor & Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He serves on the editorial board for…

Deborah Cramer is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT. Her book, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World, is the companion publication to the Sant Ocean Hall, a…

Timothy Hester is professor of piano and director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Mr. Hester has performed as a soloist…

Marsha Recknagel is a writer and artist who received her Ph.D. from Rice University, where she taught creative writing and was named writer-in-residence in 2002. In 1988, Dr. Recknagel was…