Feb. 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM

Join us for an exclusive lunch with some of the most interesting, passionate women in Houston. You were invited because you are a champion of underserved voices in Houston, especially children, women, and low-income families. We are also proud to call you clients and partners of Padrón & Co. 

Dolores Lozano

Justice of the Peace

First Woman and Mexican-American in Houston’s Precinct 2, Place 2

Dolores_Lozano@jp.hctx.net

Michelle Tovar

Director of Education, Fulbright Hays Scholar

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum & Harris County Hispanic Cultural Heritage Commissioner

michelle.tovar

@buffalosoldiersmuseums.org

Ashley Small

CEO and Founder

Medley Inc. 

ashley@medley-inc.com

Christine Laskin

Executive Director and Mentor

Joan Karff’s Women on the Way Up

On the board of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center and the Anti-Defamation League

claskin@gmail.com

Abby Leboux

Vice President of Communications and Marketing  

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast

abigail.ledoux@ppgulfcoast.org

Rene Henry

Marketing Manager, Lead Designer 

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

rhenry@crafthouston.org

Melissa Richardson Banks

President & Founder

CauseConnect

Emily Pauley

Director of Development 

Houston Health Foundation

emily.pauley

@houstonhealthfoundation.org

Diamond Braxton

Executive Director, Founder

Abode Press, an intersectional, anti-racist 501(c)3 nonprofit publisher

diamond@abodepress.com

Christine Powell

Chief Executive Officer

The Women’s Resource of Greater Houston

cpowell@thewomensresource.org

Natalie Svacina

Associate Deputy Director

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

nsvacina@crafthouston.org

AJ Edenzon-Winters

Executive Director, East Region

Special Olympics Texas

aedenzon@sotx.org

We know it’s a long drive but the Wilton Park Sessions will be held at Gracie’s home in Spring, Texas. You can take I-45 or 290 to Louetta Rd. and then turn onto Stuebner Airline. If none of those names sound familiar because Spring sounds like a different universe altogether, click on the different direction options below to navigate. 

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This will be the first of many Wilton Park Sessions featuring different topics. 

 

UPCOMING SESSIONS TOPICS:

Diversity and Representation in Houston’s Performing Arts

Arts for All: Equity V. Equality in Houston’s Visual Arts Community

Hungry for Change: Housing, Feeding, and Clothing Houston

Know someone we should invite? Shoot Gracie an email. 

gracie@padronco.com