Sanjay S. Mehta (M.S., Ph.D., University of North Texas) is Professor and award winning educator and scholar of Marketing at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. 

He has presented and/or published over 150 articles at refereed conferences and in peer reviewed academic journals.

His work has been published in numerous journal including: Journal of Asian Business, The Cornell H.R.A. Quarterly, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Health Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Customers Services in Marketing and Management, Journal of Business Strategies, and Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. 

Harold Augenbraum is Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. He has published seven books on Latino literature of the United States, including Growing Up Latino (1993, with Ilan Stavans), The Latino Reader (1997, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (2000, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), the Encyclopedia Latina (2006, with Ilan Stavans), Lengua Fresca (2006, with Ilan Stavans) and, with five colleagues, the Norton Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2010). For Penguin Classics he translated Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (2002), and the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (2006) and El Filibusterismo (2011).   His most recent book was an historical edition of the Narrative of the Narváez Expedition, published in December by Lakeside Classics.

 He will bring National Book Awards on Campus to Sam Houston State on March 31st, featuring writers Lucie Brock-Broido, Téa Obreht, and Gene Luen Yang.

Steven Begnaud, Program Coordinator for Student Activities at Sam Houston State (SHSU) received his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice in 2011 from the very instititution he works for.

He currently oversees Bearkat Alley and Sammypalooza, the yearly event that hosts brings big names to the SHSU campus in Huntsville, Texas. 

Begnaud will stop by to chat about the upcoming concert on March 26th that will feature Wiz Khalifa and his career.

Mark McLean had a single criterion when it came time to expand his horizons beyond the groove and record his long awaited breakout as a powerhouse composer and lyricist: it had to: Feel Alright.

Feel Alright is the follow-up to McLean’s acclaimed 2010 indie recording Playground, an all-instrumental showcase for his band of the same name whose tracks earned significant airplay on both traditional jazz and urban jazz stations. The new album is produced by Grammy winning engineer and producer Steve Bigas, well known for his previous work with Taj Mahal and Ziggy Marley and for his long association with Daniel Lanois.

Since moving to New York in 1999 and raising his international profile with his several year association with jazz singer/pianist Andy Bey in 2000, McLean — a jazz performance graduate from the University of Toronto who played at age 22 with fellow Canadian and jazz icon Oscar Peterson - has kept time in the studio and/or on tour with a virtual “who’s who” of jazz and pop artists whose music and influences spans multiple generations. These include Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Glen Campbell, Carla Cook, Linda Eder, Jimmy Webb, Vanessa Williams, Patti Austin, Gladys Knight, Joe Sample, Jamie Cullum, Andrea Bocelli, Catherine Russell, Dionne Warwick and The Backstreet Boys.

Rachele Brooke Smith is living out her dream as a dancer, actress, speaker, etc.

Ms. Smith has starred in movies that includes Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight To The Finish and Burlesque.

Rachele's web show, UNBREAKABLE DREAMS, share messages on ways to stay healthy and live happy and everyones personal power to make their dreams a reality!

Karon Cook is a Multi-Platform Sports Journalist who is quick on her feet and at ease with those in Management as well as Players.

Ms. Cook has interviewed many sports personalities including Bobby Cox (HOF & Former Mgr. Atlanta Braves), Fredi Gonzalez (Current Mgr. Atlanta Braves), Roger McDowell (Atlanta Braves Pitching Coach) and D.J. Shockley (UGA & Falcons).

Karon contributes Video Content to the following Sites: Leatherheads of the Gridiron and On Her Game (an on-line Community of Female Sports Writers).

Born and raised in New York, Ali Levine has worked for some of the 

biggest names in the Fashion industry including Fragments, 

Coach, Talbots and Target as part of development and design. 

 

Ali has relocated to Los Angeles where she fell head over heels 

in love with wardrobe styling. 

 

Ali is an expert when it comes to dressing clients for red carpets, 

music videos, artist tours, films, commercials, press junkets, and 

editorials.

 

Ali is a remarkable trend setter and is exceptional at trend 

forecasting;

She has even coined the 

Twitter Sensation #trendtues! 

 

Style Advice & Editorials: Wardrobe styling, tips and advice seen 

in magazines such as EnVie,Vogue Italia, Fashion Couture, Luxxy, 

Coco, Prysm Magazine, GQ, Maxim, Naluda, Ouch Magazine, USA 

Today, Fab Fit Fun, Type F online and The New York Times! Ali 

Levine’s work has been featured on many covers.

Her clients includes Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Tamala Jones, Justin Timberlake, Perez Hilton, Jillian Rose Reed and many more

Mandy McEwen founded Mod Girl Marketing LLC, because she saw the need for quality online marketing services from an honest provider that overtaxed business owners could trust. 

Through an exhaustive series of trial and error, I’ve assembled a stableteam of other honest, hard-working and experienced professionals who go above and beyond client expectations. People come to Mod Girl Marketing largely based on word-of-mouth referrals.

That is allowing Mandy and her team to provide cutting-edge branding and marketing solutions that truly transform businesses online.

Andrew and Dionne Noble, of NobleMotion Dance, returns to talk about  the dance scene in the Houston area and their upcoming production, "Unplugged," that will be held from March 6-8at The Barn in Houston, Texas.

Jenny Blake is a bestselling author, career and business coach and international speaker who helps smart people organize their brain, move beyond burnout, and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love.

With two years at a technology start-up as the first employee, over five years at Google on the Training and Career Development teams, and three years of running her own business, Jenny combines her love of technology with her superpower of simplifying complexity to help clients through big transitions — often to pivot in their career or launch a book, blog or business.

Jenny is the proud author of Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want and blog of the same name. 

You can find her at JennyBlake.me, where she explores the intersection of mind, body and business. Follow her on Twitter @jenny_blake.

Drawing on his international background in ballet, contemporary dance and Laban Movement Analysis, Dana Nicolay strives to create dances that speak clearly and truly of human experience. 

His body of nearly 50 concert works has produced numerous awards and recognitions from organizations such as the American College Dance Festival Association, Regional Dance America, and the Mid-America Dance Network. 

He pursues an active freelance career as a teacher, choreographer, and adjudicator.

He holds the MFA in modern dance from TCU, is a Certified Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analyst and holds the rank full professor of dance at Sam Houston State University.