Mike Feinberg co-founded KIPP in Houston in 1994 and served as Superintendent of KIPP Houston until 2012. He is co-founder and president of Texas School Venture Fund. (Fall 2010)

Houston welcomed Dr. Terry Grier as superintendent of HISD in September 2009, after the district’s trustees voted unanimously in favor of his selection. Promising to transform HISD’s educational culture, he…

Melissa F. Kean was Rice University’s Centennial Historian from 2005 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice,…

Kate S. Kirkland is the author of Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941 (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), published in conjunction with Rice University’s centennial, and The Hogg Family…

Brian Connelly's career embraces an unusually broad range of historical and modern repertoires and styles. He has premiered works by a host of contemporary composers, and is widely known for…

John B. Boles retired in 2019 as the William Pettus Hobby Professor of American History at Rice University, where he taught for 38 years. He is the author of the…

Clive Swansbourne studied at the Royal College of Music in London 
and received his doctorate from the Yale School of Music. He has won prizes in international competitions, and performed…

Sean Theriault is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of government at the University of Texas in Austin. His primary focus is American political institutions with specialties in congressional politics, elections and…

Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection since 2016, was formerly a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1990. She…

François de Menil, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C; is Principal and founder of FdM:Arch, an internationally acclaimed architecture firm. He is also a filmmaker. One of his first films, "Hanging Max…