An avid performer of contemporary music, STEPHANIE KEY is the founding and current Artistic Director of SOLI Chamber Ensemble. She received her BM with Distinction in Performance from New England Conservatory in Boston, and she has performed with many orchestras and ensembles across the country and internationally. She is Associate Principal and Eb Clarinetist with the San Antonio Symphony, and serves on the music faculty at Trinity University. Ms. Key is a designated Artist with Buffet Crampon, makers of fine wind instruments.

Kiran is the President & CEO of SA2020, the nonprofit that drives progress toward a shared community vision for San Antonio through research, storytelling, and practice. She previously served as the first Chief Equity Officer for the City of San Antonio. Kiran is a 2020 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

Storytelling with intent and purpose is the thread that runs through Mary Ullmann Japhet’s decades-long career as a communications professional, and she tells those stories with enthusiasm and passion. The owner and founder of Japhet Media LLC, Mary provides public relations, media training and video and audio production services for companies, nonprofit organizations, and individual leaders.

Prior to founding Japhet Media in June 2019, Mary spent 18 years as the Senior Vice President, Communications & Community Engagement for San Antonio Sports, the local sports commission. She oversaw the public relations and marketing strategies for NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Fours and numerous other national and international sporting events. A former award-winning TV anchor and reporter, Mary was also the 2019–20 Trinity University Entrepreneur in Residence.

Alexandra Leticia Zapata Simpson is an artist. Her love for creating has made her a proud alumni of Istituto Marangoni with a BA in fashion design as well as an alumnus of The New York Conservatory For Dramatic Arts with a degree in film television and theater arts. Today Alexandra and her husband Keith Simpson along with their two children sell life in a jar at their local juice bar SQUeeZeRS.

Leonora Walker is the founder and CEO of FREED Texas, which serves formerly incarcerated men and women ages 18 and older living in Bexar County and seeking to improve their lives in order to avoid reoffending. Walker was once formerly incarcerated, but has now been set free and delivered for over six years from incarceration and addiction. 

Leonora Walker is now a Nationally recognized Designated Peer Support Specialist. 

Rocío Guenther grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico and bridges two countries, two cultures, and two languages. She currently works as Director of Constituent Services in the Office of San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, where she also serves as LGBTQ liaison.  Rocío previously worked as an International Relations Specialist at the City of San Antonio’s Economic Development Department, where she actively promoted San Antonio’s role on the global stage and helped manage official Sister City relationships by promoting cultural, educational, and economic exchanges.

Prior to her service with the city, Rocío was a bilingual reporter and editorial assistant for the San Antonio Report from 2015 to 2017. Rocío holds a bachelor's in English with a minor in political science from Trinity University and is finishing her Master’s in Public Administration at The University of Texas at San Antonio.  She is a 2021 New Leaders Council Fellow. 

Hallease is a video producer and digital storyteller based in San Antonio, Texas. She has produced content for PBS, Google, SPANX and YouTube. In 2021 she became an Adobe Creative Resident, and for the next year will focus on producing an independent comedy web series, a video podcast interviewing mostly BIPOC artists about their careers, and teaching others how to tell their own story through online classes. 

In this second chapter, a new cohort of women will take the stage to share their stories. These are individuals who are changing the landscape of our city and making a tangible impact in our community every single day.

Lauren makes Herstory by being a mother, a wife a sister, and a friend. She strives to give her very best to those she loves and a faithful believer that prayer works. 

Chris makes herstory as the first Black woman to host Pecha Kucha and she is the co-founder of Ehcü Public Relations.