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Donor Spotlights

Thank you CenterPoint Energy! For almost 20 years, you have supported Civic Heart, not only financially, but with volunteers as well. Your continued support has helped to improve the lives of thousands of families. We can’t wait to see what the next 20 years brings!

Comerica Bank, you definitely help to raise expectations! For 15 years, Comerica has made a huge difference in the lives of clients we serve. Thank you for all that you do!

Thank you to a new supporter of Civic Heart. In a very short time, Worley has already impacted the lives of hundreds of our youth. Thank you for choosing to support Civic Heart!

Dr. Khalilah Campbell-Rhone
Officer of Special Populations
Houston Independent School District

Dr. Campbell-Rhone serves as the Officer of Special Populations for the Houston Independent School District where she oversees Gifted and Talented, Special Education, Dyslexia, Interventions and Multilingual for the district. She has been in the public education system for nearly 20 years. A proud Houstonian, she attended HISD schools and later became a teacher in the same district. While teaching, she earned her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies. In the 2016-2017 school year, Campbell-Rhone was named a School Support Officer. and later named principal of Worthing High School for the 2017-2018 school year. Campbell-Rhone was given one year to receive an accountability rating of Met Standard by the Texas Educational Association. That same year, in the month of April, Campbell-Rhone received the Educational Leadership Award for HISD and in August of 2018, Worthing High School officially Met Standard with distinction. She was chosen as the 2018-2019 Secondary Principal of the Year for the HISD and 2019 Texas Top 50 Black Professionals. Dr. Campbell-Rhone believes profoundly in preparing leaders for success, and because of this, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Houston teaching Instructional Supervision in the master’s program to aspiring school leaders. Campbell-Rhone is a proud wife, daughter, and mother of three.

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Jacque Daughtry
Executive Director
Literacy Now

Jacque Daughtry is the Executive Director of Literacy Now (formerly Making It Better) and has been with the organization since its inception in 2006. Along with the Board of Directors, she is responsible for strategic planning while directing the staff to accomplish board-approved plans and goals. Jacque also develops programs, policies, initiatives, and procedures for the organization. Jacque received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business, emphasizing Personnel Management, from the University of Houston and had 25 years’ experience in accounting and business management in the for-profit sector before joining Making It Better. Her passion for serving children and her community as a church volunteer and in multiple volunteer capacities at each HISD school her children attended, paved the way for her to help launch Making It Better. Jacque considers it an honor and privilege to serve the organization’s students, their dedicated staff, volunteers, and board of directors, and their Houston ISD partner schools. She also serves the community through active participation on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Education Committee, Change Happens! Good Life Outcomes Community Engagement Advisory Board, the Houston Community College Alief West Houston Business Community Steering Committee and as a women’s Bible study leader at BridgePoint Bible Church.

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Dr. Carla M. Davis
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Carla M. Davis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Section of Immunology, Allergy, and Retrovirology in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Food Allergy Program. Dr. Davis is focused on improving the quality of life for infants, children and adolescents with food allergies and is published in the area of food allergy and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease. Her interest is the expansion of the current treatment of food allergy through translational clinical trials and community educational and diversity initiatives.

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Sheara Jennings, PhD, MSW
Assoc. Professor & Humana Endowed Chair in Social Determinants of Health
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work

Sheara Jennings is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) and the Humana Endowed Chair in Social Determinants of Health. Since joining the GCSW in 2004, Dr. Jennings has been actively engaged in leadership, research, teaching and service. Her research has focused on the well-being of Black and LatinX youth and families in the areas of academic achievement, teen pregnancy prevention, healthy marriage/relationships and community-based interventions. Her current research activities focus on the delivery and evaluation of community-based projects designed to promote healthy marriage/relationships and address the well-being of minority youth via positive youth development strategies. Dr. Jennings has worked in a variety of higher education settings including: a top-10 business school and school of social work; a historically Black university; and an urban, tier one university. Her varied positions and roles represent the culmination of 20+ years of leadership experience. Through these appointments, coupled with practice experience as a master’s level social worker, professional trainer and diversity consultant, Dr. Jennings has developed a wide range of skills and the ability to work with diverse individuals and groups. Her approach is collaborative, task-oriented, analytical and strategic.

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Elwyn C. Lee, J.D.
Vice President for Neighborhood & Strategic Initiatives
University of Houston

Vice President for Neighborhood and Strategic Initiatives, University of Houston, Dr. Lee grew up in Houston’s Third Ward attending public schools including Yates high school. His last two high school years were at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, after which he attended Yale College graduating magna cum laude. Following Yale Law school graduation, Lee joined WilmerHale, a large firm in Washington, D.C. Returning to Houston, he taught employment, personal injury, administrative and ethics law on his way to becoming the first tenured African-American law professor at UH Law Center.

Subsequently, Lee has served in several administrative positions: interim director of the African American Studies program; twenty years as Vice President for Student Affairs responsible for a comprehensive array of student and enrollment services; and his current vice presidential role, Executive Leader of the UH Third Ward Initiative, that collaborates with neighborhood stakeholders to address disparities in education, health, economic empowerment and art exposure. For two decades he worked with Change Happens in many ways including helping draft the application for the $750 thousand Wells Fargo grant won by Change Happens. He is active in several other Third Ward organizations such as the Super Neighborhood 67, Third Ward Complete Communities, EEDC, SHAPE Community Center, and Project Row Houses.

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Edidiong Obot
Community Engagement Coordinator
Harris County Precint One

Edidiong Obot is a proud first generation Nigerian–American with strong cultural ties that impact her community and influences cultural awareness. Her enthusiasm to link communities with equitable resources while spreading cultural awareness, she is constantly connecting the dots in communities through advocacy, social impact, and engagement. Edidiong has served in various leadership roles impacting the presence of minorities in advocacy, cultural, arts, and S.T.E.M. arts spaces ranging from the Houston Area Urban League Young Professionals to the City of Sugar Land Cultural Arts Division. She is recognized as a global mentor and international speaker working with programs like the Global Mentorship Initiative and speaking at South Africa’s Dreams Academy Leadership Summit. Edidiong was recently recognized in the 2021 African-American Marketing Association’s 50+ Black Market on the Rise in Influencers and Media Innovators Category. Edidiong is an alumna of Texas Southern University where she obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry and a Master’s of Science in Environmental Toxicology. She currently serves as a Public Servant for Harris County Precinct One in Houston, TX as a Community Engagement Coordinator where she utilizes her training and experience to organize around various community issues centered on equity in underserved and marginalized communities.

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Daniel Williamson
Managing Director
OpenStax, Rice University

As managing director, Daniel Williamson leads the day-to-day operations of OpenStax, using his extensive experience in education technology to guide content development, technology integration, and overall project coordination. A Rice University graduate and passionate advocate of improved access and equity in education, he has dedicated the past eleven years of his life to developing and leading education start-ups from idea to realization. During that time, he has staked a claim in many areas of specialization, including open education, content development, education technology, education technology policy, management, and quality assurance. Under his leadership, OpenStax has grown to become one of the largest Open Education Resource providers in the world, with nearly 80 employees and 25 interns, and annually serving over 4 million students at 60% of all degree granting institutions in the United States. OpenStax’s 40 textbooks have already saved students over $1 billion in textbook costs and have achieved a more than 17% adoption rate in introductory college courses — a rate that rivals that of most commercial textbooks.

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Dr. Khalilah Campbell-Rhone
Officer of Special Populations
Houston Independent School District

Dr. Campbell-Rhone serves as the Officer of Special Populations for the Houston Independent School District where she oversees Gifted and Talented, Special Education, Dyslexia, Interventions and Multilingual for the district. She has been in the public education system for nearly 20 years. A proud Houstonian, she attended HISD schools and later became a teacher in the same district. While teaching, she earned her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies. In the 2016-2017 school year, Campbell-Rhone was named a School Support Officer. and later named principal of Worthing High School for the 2017-2018 school year. Campbell-Rhone was given one year to receive an accountability rating of Met Standard by the Texas Educational Association. That same year, in the month of April, Campbell-Rhone received the Educational Leadership Award for HISD and in August of 2018, Worthing High School officially Met Standard with distinction. She was chosen as the 2018-2019 Secondary Principal of the Year for the HISD and 2019 Texas Top 50 Black Professionals. Dr. Campbell-Rhone believes profoundly in preparing leaders for success, and because of this, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Houston teaching Instructional Supervision in the master’s program to aspiring school leaders. Campbell-Rhone is a proud wife, daughter, and mother of three.

Close
Jacque Daughtry
Executive Director
Literacy Now

Jacque Daughtry is the Executive Director of Literacy Now (formerly Making It Better) and has been with the organization since its inception in 2006. Along with the Board of Directors, she is responsible for strategic planning while directing the staff to accomplish board-approved plans and goals. Jacque also develops programs, policies, initiatives, and procedures for the organization. Jacque received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business, emphasizing Personnel Management, from the University of Houston and had 25 years’ experience in accounting and business management in the for-profit sector before joining Making It Better. Her passion for serving children and her community as a church volunteer and in multiple volunteer capacities at each HISD school her children attended, paved the way for her to help launch Making It Better. Jacque considers it an honor and privilege to serve the organization’s students, their dedicated staff, volunteers, and board of directors, and their Houston ISD partner schools. She also serves the community through active participation on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Education Committee, Change Happens! Good Life Outcomes Community Engagement Advisory Board, the Houston Community College Alief West Houston Business Community Steering Committee and as a women’s Bible study leader at BridgePoint Bible Church.

Close
Dr. Carla M. Davis
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Carla M. Davis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Section of Immunology, Allergy, and Retrovirology in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Food Allergy Program. Dr. Davis is focused on improving the quality of life for infants, children and adolescents with food allergies and is published in the area of food allergy and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease. Her interest is the expansion of the current treatment of food allergy through translational clinical trials and community educational and diversity initiatives.

Close
Sheara Jennings, PhD, MSW
Assoc. Professor & Humana Endowed Chair in Social Determinants of Health
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work

Sheara Jennings is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) and the Humana Endowed Chair in Social Determinants of Health. Since joining the GCSW in 2004, Dr. Jennings has been actively engaged in leadership, research, teaching and service. Her research has focused on the well-being of Black and LatinX youth and families in the areas of academic achievement, teen pregnancy prevention, healthy marriage/relationships and community-based interventions. Her current research activities focus on the delivery and evaluation of community-based projects designed to promote healthy marriage/relationships and address the well-being of minority youth via positive youth development strategies. Dr. Jennings has worked in a variety of higher education settings including: a top-10 business school and school of social work; a historically Black university; and an urban, tier one university. Her varied positions and roles represent the culmination of 20+ years of leadership experience. Through these appointments, coupled with practice experience as a master’s level social worker, professional trainer and diversity consultant, Dr. Jennings has developed a wide range of skills and the ability to work with diverse individuals and groups. Her approach is collaborative, task-oriented, analytical and strategic.

Close
Elwyn C. Lee, J.D.
Vice President for Neighborhood & Strategic Initiatives
University of Houston

Vice President for Neighborhood and Strategic Initiatives, University of Houston, Dr. Lee grew up in Houston’s Third Ward attending public schools including Yates high school. His last two high school years were at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, after which he attended Yale College graduating magna cum laude. Following Yale Law school graduation, Lee joined WilmerHale, a large firm in Washington, D.C. Returning to Houston, he taught employment, personal injury, administrative and ethics law on his way to becoming the first tenured African-American law professor at UH Law Center.

Subsequently, Lee has served in several administrative positions: interim director of the African American Studies program; twenty years as Vice President for Student Affairs responsible for a comprehensive array of student and enrollment services; and his current vice presidential role, Executive Leader of the UH Third Ward Initiative, that collaborates with neighborhood stakeholders to address disparities in education, health, economic empowerment and art exposure. For two decades he worked with Change Happens in many ways including helping draft the application for the $750 thousand Wells Fargo grant won by Change Happens. He is active in several other Third Ward organizations such as the Super Neighborhood 67, Third Ward Complete Communities, EEDC, SHAPE Community Center, and Project Row Houses.

Close
Edidiong Obot
Community Engagement Coordinator
Harris County Precint One

Edidiong Obot is a proud first generation Nigerian–American with strong cultural ties that impact her community and influences cultural awareness. Her enthusiasm to link communities with equitable resources while spreading cultural awareness, she is constantly connecting the dots in communities through advocacy, social impact, and engagement. Edidiong has served in various leadership roles impacting the presence of minorities in advocacy, cultural, arts, and S.T.E.M. arts spaces ranging from the Houston Area Urban League Young Professionals to the City of Sugar Land Cultural Arts Division. She is recognized as a global mentor and international speaker working with programs like the Global Mentorship Initiative and speaking at South Africa’s Dreams Academy Leadership Summit. Edidiong was recently recognized in the 2021 African-American Marketing Association’s 50+ Black Market on the Rise in Influencers and Media Innovators Category. Edidiong is an alumna of Texas Southern University where she obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry and a Master’s of Science in Environmental Toxicology. She currently serves as a Public Servant for Harris County Precinct One in Houston, TX as a Community Engagement Coordinator where she utilizes her training and experience to organize around various community issues centered on equity in underserved and marginalized communities.

Close
Daniel Williamson
Managing Director
OpenStax, Rice University

As managing director, Daniel Williamson leads the day-to-day operations of OpenStax, using his extensive experience in education technology to guide content development, technology integration, and overall project coordination. A Rice University graduate and passionate advocate of improved access and equity in education, he has dedicated the past eleven years of his life to developing and leading education start-ups from idea to realization. During that time, he has staked a claim in many areas of specialization, including open education, content development, education technology, education technology policy, management, and quality assurance. Under his leadership, OpenStax has grown to become one of the largest Open Education Resource providers in the world, with nearly 80 employees and 25 interns, and annually serving over 4 million students at 60% of all degree granting institutions in the United States. OpenStax’s 40 textbooks have already saved students over $1 billion in textbook costs and have achieved a more than 17% adoption rate in introductory college courses — a rate that rivals that of most commercial textbooks.

Close