When you look at the way Deborah Duncan grew up, it is no surprise that she ended up in the communication business. Raised in a military family, her early years were spent in Taiwan and Japan. As her family constantly moved around, young Duncan attended five different elementary schools. At each school, determined to learn…
Honoree 2017, In 2012, Cynthia Cisneros was appointed Vice President of Community Affairs at ABC13. She was hired at ABC13 in 1989 and while no longer filing daily reports, she is deeply involved in community efforts. As a native Houstonian, Cisneros has witnessed much of the city’s astounding growth firsthand. Growing up in the city…
Cydonii Miles is a prominent corporate lawyer, with almost 20 years of corporate finance, governance and securities law experience. As Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of American Capital, Ltd., a publicly-traded private equity firm and global asset manager, she has served for the past 13 years as the lead in-house attorney…
Honoree 2017, Dr. Margaret Jeanelle Allen was born in Lafayette Louisiana, the youngest of nine children. Dr. Allen knew in high school that she wanted to work in the field of dentistry. She enrolled into the Debakey High School for Health Professions and it was then that she decided to become a dental hygienist. Dr….
Honoree 2017, Karina Barbieri was born in Venezuela, daughter of doctors and the youngest of six. She is married to the love of her life, Carlos Barbieri, an Italian petroleum engineer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and with an MBA from MIT. They have been married for over twenty years. Barbieri is the…
Honoree 2017 Karina Gonzalez is a native of Caracas, Venezuela and a silver medal winner of the New York International Ballet Competition in 2007. She trained at the Gustavo Franklin Ballet School in Caracas, Venezuela and has danced professionally with Ballet National of Caracas and Tulsa Ballet, where she reached the rank of principal in…