Click on the photos to see more details about this year’s 2019 Annual Conference speakers, panelists and moderators.
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Carol Robertson Lopez (SCI Board of Directors; New Mexico Children’s Foundation)
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Stephen T. “Tim” Quigley, Jr (SCI Foundation)
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Nyamusi K. Igambi (U.S. Commercial Service)
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Christian Epps (Lights, Camera, Diaspora!)
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Nneka Stefania Achapu
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Mazda Denon (Global Engagement Manager)
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Cynthia S. Perry (Former Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Burundi)
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Jack M. Webb (Honorary Consul General of Ghana)
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Ron Nirenberg (Mayor of San Antonio; SCI Chairman)
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Carol Robertson Lopez (SCI Board of Directors; New Mexico Children’s Foundation)
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Marie Royce (United States Department of State)
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Rhada Friedman (Rhada Friedman Global Philanthropy; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Nyamusi K. Igambi (U.S. Commercial Service)
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Matthew Combe (Seattle 2030 District; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Christina Sciabarra (Bellevue College; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Stephanie Celt (BlueGreenAlliance; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Brandon Hersey (Federal Way Public School District; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Larinda Smith (UnBound Fort Worth)
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Ryan Dennis (Project Row House)
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Amir Reisman (Israel Trauma Coalition)
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Minal Davis (Office of the Mayor, City of Houston)
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Bridget Bray (Asia Society Texas Center)
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Perry Price (Houston Center for Contemporary Craft)
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Lance Black (Texas Medical Center)
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Baysa Benshushan (Asia Society Texas Center)
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Alix Desulme (North Miami City Council)
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Jeff Reichman (January Advisors)
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Suhail Arastu (Musical Bridges Around the World)
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Kausi Subramaniam (Anuja San Antonio)
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Cissy Segall Davis (Miller Theater Advisory Board)
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Joel Cowley (Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™)
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Kay Sargent (Lexington Sister Cities Commission for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government)
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Pat Fallin (State Representative SoCal)
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Richard Buckler (Albuquerque Sister Cities Foundation)
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Ricki Garrett (Ricki Garrett LLC)
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Jose Luis Valencia (Silogiat Worldwide Logistics)
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Andrew Sherr (Consulate General of U.S. in Guayaquil, Ecuador)
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Luis Moyano (President of HGSCA)
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Raul Edwards (Rice University)
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Robert Gallegos (Houston City Council Member)
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Ruth María Dueñas de García (Consul General of Ecuador in Houston)
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Y. Ping Sun (Rice University and Yetter Coleman, LLP)
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Rochelle Jonson (German American Chambers of Commerce)
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Fred Blanton (SCI Honorary Board Chair)
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Jane Cahaly (SCI State Representative for South Carolina)
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Barbara Shepard (SCI Board of Directors)
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Kathleen Roche-Tansey (Founding President of the San Diego Sister Cities Association)
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Ashley Turner (First Daughter of Houston)
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Julie Goodman (CEO Goodman Global Consulting)
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Rick Ruth (Senior Advisor Department of State)
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David Campbell (Board Member Fort Worth Sister Cities International)
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Gil Garcia (SCI Honorary Board and SOCAL Board of Governors)
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Cristal Montañéz Baylor (Board Member Sister Cities of Houston)
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Teri A. Simmons (Partner Arnall Golden Gregory)
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Naoko Ozaki (Professor at Rice University)
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Olivera Jankovska (Global Citizenship Fellow UNICEF)
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Henry Van de Putte (American Red Cross Greater San Antonio)
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Sherry Bernard (YMCA of Greater Houston)
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Pamela L. Cruz (Rice University Baker Institute)
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Alexis Thompson (The Salvation Army of Greater Houston)
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Laura Dixon (Spurs Sports and Entertainment)
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Linda “Jay” Jackson (Founder of Helping Hand for Nepal)
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Ruth H. Frasier (Sister Cities Virginia Beach)
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Mary C. Johnson (St. Charles Sister City Association)
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Robert Ogburn (U.S. State Department)
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Angelika Schmidt-Lange (Executive Director German Institute for the Southwest)
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Aaron R. Dean II (Brigadier General)
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James Donovan (Co-Founder and CEO of ADEC Innovations)
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AM Kinney III (A.M. Kinney Architects)
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Wolfgang Schmidt (President of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association)
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Martin Wilhelmy (SVP of Investments at Frank Wilhelmy Hearn)
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Thomas Meister (Consul General Germany in Houston)
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Roberto Ransom (Operations Director for the Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness)
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Daniel Dominguez (CEO of Air Matrix LLC)
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Alan Russell (Co-Founder of The Tecma Group)
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Peter Svarzbein (Photographer, Curator and Disruptive Media Specialist)
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Veronica Garza (Specialist in Immigration Law)
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Juan Sánchez Muñoz (President of University of Houston Downtown)
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Carlos Martinez Vela (CEO of The Hub of Human Innovation)
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Gabrielle Goldfuß (Coordinator for The City of Leipzig International Affairs)
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Ryan N. Dennis (Programs Director at Project Row Houses)
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Bridget Bray (Curator and Director at Asia Society Texas)
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David Hsu (Attorney at Givens and Johnston PLLC)
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Justin Grimsley (Resource Administrator for E-Sports Stadium Arlington)
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Mike Hunter (Director of E-sports Stadium Arlington)
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Jonathan Oudthone (Design and Development for E-Sports Stadium Arlington)
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Jennifer Priest (Executive Director of The Norfolk Sister City Association)
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Ksenia Mokrushina (Founder of CityCompass Project)
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Kelley Eubanks (Managing Partner KEE Concrete and Construction)
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Sarah Craven (Director of UNFPA Washington)
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Chris Olson (Director of Trade and International Affairs City of Houston)
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Merrill Eisenhower Atwater (CEO People-to-People International)
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Jeffrey Blair (Director Middle East, Europe, Africa for Greater Houston Partnership)
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Rhada Friedman (Rhada Friedman Global Philanthropy; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Matthew Combe (Seattle 2030 District; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Stephanie Celt (BlueGreenAlliance; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Brandon Hersey (Federal Way Public School District; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Christina Sciabarra (Bellevue College; Henry M. Jackson Foundation)
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Ping Sun (University Representative, Rice University Of Counsel, Yetter Coleman, LLP)
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Irina Karmanova (U.S. Department of State)
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Camille Wardrop Alleyne (NASA)
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Kenia Mosquera (Houston-Guayaquil Sister City Association)
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Thomas Nguyen (CEO of Peli Peli)
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Rick Burns (Founder of Karadah Project International)
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Tom Kolditz (Director Doerr Institute for New Leaders)
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Teresa Kennedy (STEM Professor UT Tyler)
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