Dr. Krista L. Olson is Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Program Director at the Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Olson has trained at the world-renowned Texas Medical Center and is responsible for training and educating the future surgeons in the field of facial plastic…
Kim Gagne is the Emmy Award-winning supervising producer of the Steve Harvey daytime talk show, and for five years she has produced Steve Harvey’s Neighborhood Awards. Gagne is known for her outstanding leadership and communication skills, as well as her successful track record of effectively managing and training up strong production teams. Gagne prides herself…
Katie Walthall Mehnert is the Founder and CEO of Pink Petro, the first and only global social community for women in energy and their diversity advocates. Pink Petro is aimed specifically at closing the gender gap. A daughter to an engineer in the 1980s, Mehnert was acutely aware of the impact the bust in the…
Joyce Tyler-Williams was born in Beaumont, Texas. She has been a native of Houston for 57 years. She received her Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration from Texas Southern University School of Business. She is Senior Vice- President and Community Development Officer for the Houston/Galveston Region of Frost Bank, where she has worked for 30 years. …
As Manager of Supplier Diversity & Local Participation for TransCanada’s Major Projects Organization, Heather Holland is responsible for leading, developing and implementing a multi-year supplier diversity strategy and program for a portfolio of U.S. and Canadian energy infrastructure projects in excess of US $20 billion. In this role, Holland works to ensure integration of aboriginal,…
As a native Houstonian and graduate of Phillis Wheatley High School, it was instilled in Palmer to dream bigger than her. For over 20 years, Palmer served as executive secretary to several prominent attorneys in Houston, gaining extensive experience that helped make her the successful business woman she is today, as CEO of Autos R…
Dr. Wanda Thornton Mott is Managing Partner for the Houston Women’s Obstetrical and Gynecological Associates, and she has practiced as a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas for more than 20 years in the Texas Medical Center. As a gynecological clinician and surgeon, her hallmarks include educating patients and providing cutting edge medical and…
Selina Ahmed was born in Bangladesh. In 1973, Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, conferred upon her a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Human Nutrition. Since August of 1975, she has taught Nutrition as an Associate Professor at Texas Southern University in the Department of Human Services and Consumer Sciences. She has also served as…
Dr. Marla Fielder, R.Ph., was born in Columbia, Missouri. She moved to Duncanville, Texas at the age of ten and relocated to Houston to pursue her studies at Texas Southern University. She began her career with The Kroger Co. in 2000 as a pharmacy technician. After completing her Doctor of Pharmacy studies at Texas Southern…
Dr. Kamala Raghavan is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Texas Southern University. In this position, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in advanced financial accounting, managerial accounting and accounting information systems. Dr. Raghavan has conducted seminars on finance for managers and international accounting standards at the…
