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Suzanne Montz Adams has presented writing workshops both locally and nationally and is a Program Director for ARTreach where she facilitates writing and expressive arts workshops for adolescent girls at risk in Fort Bend ISD. She graduated with honors from Texas A&M University with a BBA in Accounting and is a former CPA. She has an MA with a concentration in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard College. Her essays have appeared in national magazines and journals including Radical Psychology, Diving in the Moon, Family Life, BrainChild, and Trivia: Voices of Feminism. She is on the Council of the Transformative Language Arts Network and is the founder of Write to the Center which offers writing workshops that promote personal growth, healing, and insight as a way of transforming and honoring life experiences. 
Liz Anders, a Senior Associate at Kinzelman Art Consulting, is an art advisor, curator and fine art appraiser for private and corporate clients. Prior to joining Kinzelman Art Consulting, Ms. Anders worked in New York’s Christie's Auction House in the British and Irish Art specialist department. She hold a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market from Christie's Education in New York. She completed the Certificate Program in Appraisal Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and conducts her appraisals in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). Active in several arts’ related organizations, she is a member of the Houston Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) where she currently serves as a board member and chapter First Vice-President, a member of the Menil Contemporaries Steering Committee, and is currently serving on the Exhibitions Committee at the Houston Center for Photography. 
David Brauer is head of the History of Art Department of the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is a native of Scotland. He was educated in England at the Sir Christopher Wren School and St. Martin’s School of Art from which he received his degree. After extensive travel in Europe, Russia, Turkey, and North Africa, Mr. Brauer returned to England where he worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and taught at the North Oxfordshire College of Art and Technology. Since moving to Houston, he has curated numerous art exhibits: Houston Art in Norway in 1982; Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943-1993 in 1993; Landscape without Figures in 1994; and Images from Space, 1995; Charles Schorre 1925-1996: A Retrospective, 1997, which opened at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and traveled to several Texas museums; and he co-curated a Pop Art exhibition at the Menil Collection in 2001. He has taught at the University of Houston and Rice University, and has guest lectured at Columbia University, University of Notre Dame, and the University of Texas at Austin, the San Antonio Art Museum, the World Business Council’s conference in Brussels, and the Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado.
B. Jill Carroll, Ph.D., a noted expert on issues of religious tolerance and the philosophy of religion, served as Executive Director of the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University for five years. She holds a doctorate in religious studies from Rice and she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in theological and historical studies from Oral Roberts University. She has taught classes and lectures on religion, philosophy, and humanities at Rice University, the University of Houston, and the Jung Center, Houston. Her recent book A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gulen's Islamic Ideals and Human Discourse was a Publishers Weekly bestseller in religion. A frequent guest on radio and television programs, she has been interviewed by the New York Times, PBS, and "Good Morning America."
Roberta M. Diddel Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of Disability 101, a non-profit organization providing high quality, consistently available programs to help people with disabling medical conditions and their families learn to adapt and thrive. She also teaches part-time in the Psychology Department at Rice University and at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. As a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Houston, she helps patients meet the challenges of major life transitions, loss and bereavement, chronic illness, brain injury, chronic pain and other disabling conditions. Dr. Diddel received her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and her PhD. in clinical psychology from Boston University. 
William E. Frisco, CPA, CFP,CFP is a senior vice president wealth advisor at one of the largest global wealth management firms. He has over 20 years experience managing growth and retirement portfolios for individuals, trusts, and corporations; he also serves as a retirement consultant for 410(k) and profit sharing programs. Mr. Frisco received his B.A. in Economics from Duke University and M.B.A. from Tulane University. A member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Certified Financial Planners, he has presented his investment seminars to corporations, Rice University's School for Continuing Studies, and CPA societies across Texas. In 2009, Barron's included him in their list of top investment advisors in the country. In September of 2009, Texas Monthly included him in the Five Star Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers survey, which represented about two per cent of the managers in the Houston Region. 
Susan Fruit, ASID, is a licensed interior designer with over 30 years of professional design experience, has designed homes in Texas, California, Florida, the Midwest and South America. The author of numerous articles on interior and landscape design, Ms. Fruit is a state registered remodeling contractor and member of the Greater Houston Builders Association and its Remodelers Council. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in interior design from the Purdue University and is the founder and former director of the Interior Design Certificate Program at the University of Houston. In addition she has lectured throughout the U.S. and Canada and is one of only three interior designers in the country who has attained professional membership in the National Speakers Association. 
Nancy P. Geyer, novelist and playwright, is the author of two novels, Flying South (Scribner) and Frailties (Little, Brown). Sonia and Suzy, the national winner of the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea Festival of Firsts Playwriting Competition was presented at Houston's Country Playhouse during its 2010-2011 season. All the Pretty Little Horses, one of three plays selected for the debut of Wordsmyth Theatre Company's annual Playwrights Reading Series, was presented to a capacity audience at Houston's Stages Repertory Theatre in 2009. I Would Give You Violets, received not only from Live Oak Theatre, an equity theatre in Austin, the New Play Award for the Best American Play but also an option contract for a Broadway production. Versus was one of three finalists in the national 50th Anniversary Stanley Drama Competition and Dust was one of three winners in The Festival of Southern Theatre Competition.The Reflection Pool received a reading by NY Artists Unlimited. Ms. Geyer, who has taught in the English department of the University of Houston and Rice’s Shools of Continuing Studies, received two master's degrees from the State University of New York. She has also edited a newsletter for a professional theatre, produced and anchored in-house television programs for a major energy corporation, developed and written informational material for a maritime museum, served as a consultant on award-winning scripts for a major symphony orchestra, created and taught in a government-funded program for gifted children, and conducted seminars for lawyers, civic and social groups, and hospice volunteers. 
Irene Guenther received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in modern European cultural history. While on the faculty of Marquette University she received the 2009 Way Klingler Award, a university-wide award for research and teaching. Before moving to Wisconsin from Texas, she taught at the University of Houston, Houston Community College, Rice University and is the recipient of five "teaching excellence" awards. She has published numerous articles and essays on the fashion industry in Nazi Germany, the plight of French and German cultural emigrés during World War II, and the Emergency Rescue Committee that helped rescue cultural luminaries from Nazi-occupied Europe. Her book, Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich, won the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Award for "the best fashion history book" of 2005, as well as the Sierra Prize, given by the Association of Women Historians, for the best history book written by a female historian. Dr. Guenther currently teaches in the honors program at the University of Houston.
Barry Greenlaw is a private consultant, appraiser and lecturer specializing in the decorative and fine arts of England and America. He received his undergraduate degree from Bates College and his master's degree from the University of Delaware as a Winterthur Fellow. Before coming to Houston in 1974 as Curator of the Bayou Bend Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, he served as Curator of Furniture and Assistant Director of Collections at Colonial Williamsburg. For three years he was a dealer in antique maps and prints. Mr. Greenlaw has lectured throughout the United States and has taught at several institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the publication of numerous articles, he is the author of New England Furniture at Williamsburg.
Ronald L. Hatchett, Ph.D., is the immediate past Director of the Center for Global Studies at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas. He held similar positions on the faculties of the University of St. Thomas in Houston and Texas A & M University at College Station, the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. During the Reagan administration, Dr. Hatchett served as a senior civilian official in the Department of Defense working arms control and international security issues. Prior to taking his position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he served for 20 years as an Air Force officer working in intelligence and politico-military affairs in fighter and reconnaissance wings; he also served on the staffs of Headquarters 7th Air Force, the Republic of Vietnam, the USAF in Europe Headquarters, and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon where he was a Middle East analyst. His academic specialties are foreign policy, European Studies, and Middle Eastern Affairs. Dr. Hatchett holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Air Force Academy; a Masters of Arts from California State University, San Diego; a certificate of Balkan studies from the University of Zagreb in Croatia; and a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
J. Dennis Huston received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (Connecticut) in 1961, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Houston in 1969, he was Assistant Professor of English at Yale. Dr. Huston is Professor of English at Rice University where he has four times won the George R. Brown Superior Teaching Award and where in the fall of 1989 he was named Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. he is an occasional participant in dramatic productions and is the author of a book on Shakespeare.
John Keating received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his master's degree from George Washington University. He subsequently served 20 years as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. Early in his career, he spent three years on assignment in Spain, and it was that experience that launched a lifelong interest in wine. After retirement from the Air Force, he turned this interest into a second career. As the manager of fine wine sales for a major distributor in Virginia, he wrote wine and lifestyle articles for newspapers, travel, food, and golf publications. For many years he hosted "a best of wine" feature on local television and taught wine classes at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Wales University, a culinary school in the region. Mr. Keating is a charter member of the Society of Wine Educators.
Lynda Harper Kelly received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in French from Rice University. In 1974 her doctoral dissertation received Rice's Gardner Award given to the graduate student doing the best piece of research and writing in the humanities and social sciences. Her romance with France began in 1961 when she spent a summer in Paris studying at the Alliance Française School and she later returned to Paris for a year to study at the Sorbonne. She and her husband, architect Frank Kelly, return to France almost every year to explore and photograph different regions. They have given many lectures on their travels at the Alliance Française de Houston. Dr. Kelly has taught French at Southern Methodist University, Houston Community College, and Rice University. In 1995 she organized and conducted a six-week travel/study program in Burgundy for Rice University. She also loves French cuisine and has studied at both the Cordon Bleu and the Ecole Ritz in Paris. 
J. Pittman McGehee is an Episcopal priest and former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral. In 1991 he resigned that office in order to train as a Jungian analyst. He received his diploma in 1997 and currently is in private practice as an analyst. He is a published poet, teaches at the University of Houston and lectures frequently in the fields of psychology and religion. 
Richard W. Murray is a native of Louisiana with B.A. and M.A. degrees in government from Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has taught at the University of Houston since 1966 where he is currently Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Public Policy. His principal academic interests are in political parties, campaigns and elections, public opinion, and interest groups. The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Murray's most recent book is Progrowth Politics: Change and Governance in Houston. Professor Murray consulted in over 200 political campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s (he has since given up the sport) and has conducted over 50 polls for local media. In addition he is a political analyst for Channel 13.
William J. Neidinger received his B.A. in history and Spanish from Fordham University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Rice University where he taught for a number of years. He is a trustee on the board of the Texas Foundation for Archaeological and Historical Research and continues to direct a number of archaeological excavations in the Balkans and Middle East. 
Kate Emery Pogue received her undergraduate degree in Theatre from Northwestern University and her master’s from the University of Minnesota. She was founder of the drama program and writer of the theater curriculum for Houston Community College where she taught for over 20 years. During this time she was the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare by the Book Festival in Fort Bend County and a founder and Artistic Director and Resident Librettist for Opera To Go, the educational outreach performance company for Houston Grand Opera. Both a stage director and librettist, she has directed plays for numerous organizations and colleges and has had commissions for writing the librettos for several opera companies. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A frequent lecturer on Shakespeare, her research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and her books on Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Friends (Praeger, 2006) and Shakespeare’s Family (Praeger, 2008) have established her as a world authority on Shakespeare’s private life.
Chris Rogers is a former advertising business owner and marketing consultant. She downsized her life to pursue her love of writing and her work has won local and national awards. In 1996, she sold a three-book contract and a movie option to her Dixie Flannigan series about a female bounty hunter who resides on a pecan farm in Richmond, Texas. The first book in the series, Bitch Factor was published by Bantam Books in 1998 and followed by Rage Factor and Chill Factor. The series has since been published in Japan, Germany and Brazil and is now available in audio format. Like Dixie, Ms. Rogers resides in a small Texas town, Hilltop Lakes, where, as an author and ghostwriter, she continues to pursue her love of writing. Her short stories and essays have appeared in various magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Writer’s Digest. Her nonfiction book Goosing the Write Brain was published in early summer 2009. A former instructor in the University of Houston Extension Program, Rice University School of Continuing Studies, and a private Master Class, she is frequently featured as a guest lecturer at writing workshops, colleges and association meetings.
Seymour Rossel is the Rabbi of Congregation Jewish Community North of Spring, Texas. He is the author of 33 books, including The Torah: Portion by Portion, Bible Dreams: The Spiritual Quest, Israel: Covenant People, Covenant Land, and The Child’s Bible. Rabbi Rossel formerly served as Director of Education for the Union of Reform Judaism, Director of the Commission on Reform Jewish Education, and Academic Coordinator of the School of Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where he was on faculty for nearly a dozen years. As speaker, author, and editor, he is listed in Who's Who in the Eastern States, Contemporary Authors, The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, as well as Who's Who in World Jewry. He holds the Bonei HaNegev award for excellence in Jewish Education and served as an ex-officio member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Before serving his present congregation, Rabbi Rossel lectured on Bible and biblical archaeology, Jewish history, mysticism, and spiritual values throughout North America, in Great Britain, and in Israel.
Ann Thompson was born in Indonesia of Dutch parents, and she lived in Java, Sumatra, Holland, Curaçao, England, Switzerland, Greece, and Trinidad West Indies. A graduate of the Freies Gymnasium in Zurich, her marriage brought her to Houston where she soon became involved with the Houston Grand Opera. As part of HGO Guild’s volunteer docent program, she discovered an affinity for sharing her interest in the performing arts “with anyone who would listen” and has been speaking on opera and related subjects for over 30 years. She gives the pre-curtain lectures before the HGO performances and lectures for the West University Senior Center and at Lone Star College, The Woodlands.
Sylvia Blackley Thompson received her B.A. in history and English from Baylor University and taught American history at Memorial High School. She has over 25 years experience as book reviewer, historical trip narrator, and lecturer on Texas and Southern history. A frequent banquet and event speaker, Mrs. Thompson has lectured for Baylor’s Women’s Forum, the University of Texas’s Elderhostel, and as a Distinguished Lecturer for UT’s Winedale Symposium. She is the author of the original history of Texas used for docent training at the Harris County Heritage Society and In Praise of Painted Churches, written for the Texas State Historical Society’s Heritage Magazine. In addition, she has served on the boards of the Texas Association of Museums, Baylor University Women’s Association, and as chairman of both the Accessions Committee and the Guild of the Heritage Society.
Hector Urrutibeheity has a B.A. in English Literature from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University. He is a Professor Emeritus from Rice University, where he taught Spanish, Romance Linguistics, and foreign language methodology in Spanish and French. He also served as chairman of the Department of Hispanic Studies for 15 years. He is currently an adjunct professor of Spanish and French at the University of St. Thomas. He is the co-author of The Lexical Structure of Spanish, Mouton, The Hague, two college Spanish textbooks, Peldanos and Tierra del Feugo, and the French series entitled “Echelons." He recently completed a book on French phonetics entitled La prononciation du français contemporain.
Liz M. Weiman is the author of The Lawyer's Guide to Concordance published in 2010 by the American Bar Association, and her second book, The Lawyer's Guide to E-Discovery, is scheduled for 2010 publication by the ABA. Ms. Weiman has created instructional and technical manuals, e-learning modules, and Web content for Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger, Smith International, Inc. In addition she served as a fiction reveiwer for the Houston Chronicle and other national newspapers, as associate editor of Ultra Magazine, and as senior editor of Southwest Art Magazine. She has worked as a journalist, editor, instructional designer, technical writer, graphic designer, computer instructor, database designer/administrator, and healing arts provider. Ms. Weiman, a Boston University graduate, teaches software programs to the public and specalizes in genealogical online searches.
Christopher Woods is a Texas native who writes poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction. He is the author of the novel Dream Patch. His recent books are Under a Riverbed Sky, a collection of prose poems and brief fictions, and Heart Speak, stage monologues for actors and actresses. His work has appeared in over 300 periodicals and journals in the U.S. and in ten foreign countries, some of which include The Southern Review, New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, Columbia, and Glimmer Train. He has received a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation as well as the Betty Green Fiction Award from the Center for Texas Studies. Mr. Woods has also been the recipient of residencies from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Edward Albee Foundation in New York and he has taught creative writing for Rice University's continuing studies program.
Susan Briggs Wright holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work in memoir and family history is enriched by her background of award-winning TV journalism, public relations, and corporate communication dealing with business as well as personal stories. She produced radio and TV News programs at WOR in New York, and in Houston, she covered consumer affairs, medicine and courts at KPRC-TV Channel 2. Ms. Wright was a columnist for The Houston Business Journal, a journalism instructor at University of Houston and an anchor/managing producer at Houston Public Television. She became a partner in Meyer, Griffin & Wright Public Relations and directed communications at a technology services company and a community college district. Most recently she has edited Coping With Transition: Men, Motherhood, Money, and Magic—Memoirs from the Lives of Professional Women, published by Texas Review Press.| Women's Institute of Houston 2202 Avalon Place, Houston, Texas 77019 Telephone: (713) 529-7123 | Facsimile: (713) 529-9266 Email: wih@wih.org |
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