Meet the Committee
Educate Texas Committee members play critical roles in leading, shaping,
and guiding the organization now and into the future.
Andy Smith
- Educate Texas Committee Chair; Director, Giving and Volunteering, Texas Instruments; Executive Director, TI Foundation
Kristin Boyer
- Executive Director of the Trellis Foundation
Deborah Cordova
- Partner, Walsh McGurk Cordova Nixon Attorneys at Law
Michael Dardick
- Executive Chairman, Granite Properties
Jill Louis
- Managing Partner, Perkins Coie - Dallas
Elaine Mendoza
- Conceptual Mindworks, Chairwoman of Texas A&M University System Board 
of Regents
Alfreda Norman
- Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Connie Blass O’Neill
- Communities Foundation of Texas Board Chair; Civic Leader
Chris Reynolds
- Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer Toyota Motor North America
Florence Shapiro
- Partner, Shapiro Linn Strategic Consulting
Robert Walters
- Executive Committee and Dallas Partner-in-Charge, Gibson Dunn
JOIN THE TEAM.
If you have a passion for increasing readiness, access and achievement for all students, you may want to consider 
applying for a current opening.