Connie L. Cochran serves as Assistant Vice President of Alumni Relations & Special Events at Texas Southern University, carrying more than 29 years of experience in her…

Dr. Courtney Jacocks Chance is a committed general dentist within the Houston metropolitan area. She is co-owner of Oaks Point Pediatric Dentistry in the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest…

Houston native Michelle Bythewood is president of Salata Salad Kitchen. As president, Bythewood is responsible for management of operations and logistics and creating, communicating and implementing the…

Juliet Breeze, MD, a healthcare entrepreneur, is the CEO and Founder of Next Level Urgent Care and the Vice President of Vantage Hospice. Dr. Breeze has developed…

Colleen Banks is currently a Senior Associate at Wealth Development Strategies LLC after getting her start serving the financial service needs of the Lutheran community through Thrivent…

With more than two decades of experience in Global Trade Compliance, Tracey Anthony is an industry expert dedicated to helping clients meet the rules, restrictions and protocol…

Leanne Dobard Alvarez is President and CEO of Leading Edge Enterprises, LLC, doing business as The UPS Store at Shadow Creek Ranch in Pearland, Texas. LA Holdings,…

Vanessa E. Wyche is deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), an organization of nearly 10,000 civil service and contractor employees in Houston and White Sands…

Lisa Trapani Shumate was appointed Associate Vice President (UH System) & General Manager, Houston Public Media (UH) in 2011, with dual roles of responsibility including serving as…

When Kim Padgett isn’t managing her public relations firm, The Padgett Group, this media maven can be found supporting charities throughout Houston. Padgett has spent the last…

Award-winning journalist Melanie Lawson is a proud Houstonian and a product of Houston schools. Journalism has always been in Lawson’s blood. She started first as a full-time…

Myrtle Jones is Senior Vice President of Tax at Halliburton Company. Jones graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and is now a…

Resting her hand on her grandfather, Rev. O.D. Ford Sr.’s heirloom Bible, Mayor Yolanda Ford was administered the oath of office at the Monday, Dec. 17, 2018…

Joyce L. Jacquet is a superlative, accomplished retired educator and counselor of 37 years who is passionate about her faith, family and chosen profession.  Currently, she is…

In 1984, Judy Foston Stanford, after working for Fortune 500 companies in sales and marketing nationally for ten years, founded a full-service boutique communications company specializing in marketing,…