Jun 29, 2021
Lee Miller is one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- living bootmakers. Originally from Vermont, he has been wearing cowboy boots his whole life. He graduated from Oklahoma State University, where he learned how to make cowboy boots, in 1972. After working for various bootmakers, he was invited to work...
Jun 22, 2021
Michael Beck, who grew up for 11 years in Germany, has been a teacher for over 20 years. After graduating from Arkansas State University in 1982 and Columbia College in 1990, he worked in the music industry as a booking agent for predominantly classic blues musicians for many years. Michael later earned 2 Master's...
Jun 15, 2021
Vivienne Schiffer, a novelist and filmmaker, grew up in Rohwer, Arkansas. She attended All Saints Episcopal School in Vicksburg, Mississippi; Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas; and law school at Tulane in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been a big firm attorney, worked as in-house counsel, wrote the novel Camp Nine,...
Jun 8, 2021
Kristin Guiney is the Executive Director of Angela House, a non-profit organization that provides trauma-informed rehabilitative services to formerly incarcerated women. Prior, she graduated from Emory University, earned her JD at the University of Houston Law Center, was an Assistant District Attorney, and served as...
Jun 1, 2021
Jessica Brown, a professor of sociology, is from Madison, Wisconsin. She studied Government, Psychology, and Women's Studies at Cornell, then went on to earn her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010. She researches topics such as immigration, transnational sociology, gender, and race...