Authors

Mark L. Smith

Director and state librarian, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Michelle Smith

Director of government relations, Raise Your Hand Texas

Russell A. Smith

CEO, Refugee Services of Texas

Sara E. Smith

Staff attorney for Environment Texas


Phyllis Snodgrass

CEO, Austin Habitat for Humanity

Doug Snyder

President, UT University Democrats

Grant Sobetski

Student, The George Washington University

James Spaniolo

President and CEO, North Texas Commission


Julia Spann

Executive director of SafePlace

Margaret Spellings

Former U.S. secretary of education

Tom Spencer

Program director, National Wildlife Federation

Stan Spinner

VP and Chief Medical Officer, Texas Children’s Pediatrics Associates


Vicki Spriggs

CEO, Texas CASA

Steve Stagner

President and CEO, ACEC Texas

Donna Stahlhut

CEO, the Epilepsy Foundation Texas

Dean Stansel

Economist, SMU


Todd Staples

President of the Texas Oil and Gas Association

Ken Starr

President and chancellor of Baylor University

Randan Steinhauser

Advisor, EdChoice

Robert Stein

Professor, Rice University


Sara Stevenson

Former public school librarian

Jonathan Stickland

State representative, R-Bedford

Steve Stockman

Former U.S. representative, R-Friendswood

William R. Stockton

Senior research fellow, Texas A&M Transportation Institute


Cade Stone

Research assistant, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life

Joe Straus

Speaker of the Texas House, R-San Antonio

Sophia A. Strother

Founder, Learning to Exhale Restoration Strategies LLC

Daniel Suez

Immunologist


Ray Sullivan

Political consultant

Thomas P. Sullivan

Former United States Attorney

Kalpana Sutaria

Member, Citizens' Climate Lobby

Stacey Swann

Teacher and writer


Stephanie Swanson

Founder, Honest Elections for Texans

Ellen Sweets

Author, former Austin resident

Gyl Switzer

Executive director, Texas Gun Sense

Sherry Sylvester

Political consultant


Mustafa Tameez

Political consultant

Randi Lynn Tanglen

Professor, Austin College

John Tanner

Executive director, Test Sense

Kristin Tassin

President, Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees


Tim Tate

Attorney, Tate Law Offices

Jessica Taylor

High school teacher

Larry Taylor

State Senator

Van Taylor

State senator


Jeff Temple

Vice chairman of the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence

Gene Terry, Texas Association of Counties

Gene Terry is the Executive Director of the Texas Association of Counties

Gene Terry, Texas Association of Counties

Gene Terry is the Executive director of the Texas Association of Counties. The Texas Association of Counties exists as a unified voice for Texas counties, focused on promoting efficient and effective government for the people of Texas.

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University


Shawn Thierry

State representative, HD-146

Travis Thomas

Spokesman, Texans for Consumer Freedom

Jere Thompson Jr.

Co-chair, Texas Transportation Alliance


Senfronia Thompson

State representative, HD-14

Wayne Thorburn

Author; former executive director of the Texas Republican Party

Donna Scott Tilley

Vice provost for research, Texas Woman’s University

Calvin Tillman

Former mayor of DISH


Emily Timm

Deputy director of the Workers Defense Project

Catherine Tinsley

Professor at Georgetown University

Dr. Carlos Tirado

Psychiatrist; president, Texas Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine


Tom Torkelson

CEO, IDEA Public Schools

Egidio Torre Cantú

Governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico

Ángela-Jo Touza-Medina

Executive director, YWCA Greater Austin

Maria Town

Director, Houston Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities


Steve Tozer

Founding coordinator, EdD Urban Education Leadership program, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jay Trainor

Retired social worker

Javier Treviño

Mexican congressman

Alex Triantaphyllis

Director of Immigration and Economic Opportunity, BakerRipley


Ellen Troxclair

Senior fellow, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Karen Tseng

Health policy fellow, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

Terra Tucker

Texas state director, Alliance for Safety and Justice


Chris Turner

State representative, HD-101

R. Gerald Turner

President, Southern Methodist University

Sylvester Turner

Mayor of Houston

Tyson Tuttle

CEO, Silicon Labs


Cristina Tzintzun

Executive director, Jolt

Chase Untermeyer

Texas ethics commissioner

Mark K. Updegrove

Director of the LBJ Presidential Library


Carlos Uresti

State senator, D-San Antonio

Jace Valcore

Asst. professor of criminal justice, University of Houston

Matthew Valentine

UT-Austin lecturer

Tamsen Valoir

Molecular biologist, patent lawyer


Leticia Van de Putte

State senator, D-San Antonio

Beth Van Duyne

Mayor of Irving

Yvonne VanDyke

MSN, RN, Seton Healthcare Family


James P. Van Overschelde

Director, Evaluation & Research, Office of Educator Preparation at Texas State University

Veronica Vargas Stidvent

Chancellor, WGU Texas

Jason Vaughn

SREC liaison, Texas Young Republicans

Marc Veasey

U.S. Representative, D-Fort Worth


Linda Vega

Former 2014 U.S. Senate candidate

Jesus Velasco

Non-resident scholar, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

Peggy Venable

Policy director of Americans for Prosperity-Texas

Jason Villalba

State representative, R-Dallas


Elisa Villanueva Beard

CEO, Teach for America

Chandra Kring Villanueva

Policy analyst at the Center for Public Policy Priorities

Mike Villarreal

Founding director, Institute on Urban Education, UT-San Antonio

Ruben O. Villarreal

Mayor of Rio Grande City


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