Dana M. Green is the executive administrative assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She received a Master of Business Administration from Our Lady of the Lake University and a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of Phoenix. Green has been with the University of Houston since 2008 and has held various senior-level administrative positions within the University, including Donor and Alumni Records, University Advancement, office of international studies and programs and UH Health and academic programs in the Office of the Provost. Prior to joining the University of Houston, she spent seven years as an office administrator in the private and industrial sectors.

Sally Connolly is associate professor of contemporary poetry and an authority on American, British and Irish verse from the modern period to the present day. Connolly previously taught at Wake Forest University and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. Her main areas of research and teaching include the elegiac tradition, epic, confessional and post-confessional verse, poetic influence / inheritance, queer poetics, prosody and scansion, medical humanities, neoformalist criticism, poetic responses to disaster, epigraphs and allusions, and transatlantic literary relations.

Connolly received her Ph.D. in modern and contemporary poetry from University College London.

A native of St. Albans in the United Kingdom, she has lived in Houston since 2008.

Todd Romero received his B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College. An associate professor in the department of history, he researches and teaches classes on early American, Native American, public and food history. Romero is the author of a number of articles and the book, "Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England," (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).

His work has been supported by fellowships or grants from the Newberry Library, the John Nicholas Brown Center for American Civilization at Brown University, the Huntington Library, the American Philosophical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For his teaching, Romero has won the Provost’s Core Teaching Award (2012) and the Ross M. Lence Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities (2016).

Susan Scarrow holds a Moores University Professorship in the department of political science. Her teaching and scholarship focus on representation and political participation in parliamentary democracies, including political party development, comparative political finance and the spread of direct democracy. She co-leads the multi-national  Political Party Database , an NSF funded endeavor which currently encompasses over 240 parties and over 40 countries. She co-edited " Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation and Power, "  a book presenting the first analysis of this project (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Carla Sharp is a professor of psychology and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab and the UH-ADAPT clinic. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. In 2004, she moved to the United States to take an appointment as an assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.

Her published work includes over 250 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 53) and numerous chapters reflecting her interests in the social-cognitive basis of psychiatric problems and attachment-related disorders as well as the application of this work in developing diagnostic tools and interventions in youth. She has co-authored three books: an edited volume with Springer titled, “The Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents,” an edited volume with Oxford University Press titled “Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology” and a book with MIT Press titled, “Midbrain Mutiny: Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics of Gambling Addiction as Basic Reward System Disorder." Her work has been continuously funded since 2009 by the NIH and various foundations.

Frank Houston is the college information services manager and information security officer for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer information systems from Jones College and a Master of Science in management with a focus on information security from Colorado Technical University. Prior to joining the University of Houston, he served as director of information technology for a major medical management corporation in south Florida.

Amy O'Neal earned her bachelor's degree in history from Texas A&M University and her master's and doctorate in history from the University of Houston. Her research focuses on medieval history, specifically Norman and Anglo-Norman women in 10th-12th century England and France. She teaches history and has worked in UH's department of history and the Women's Studies Program. As director of Assessment and Accreditation Services, O'Neal coordinates assessment initiatives within the College, provides faculty and staff support for the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and Institutional Effectiveness Plans (IEPs) and collects and analyzes data for the College.

LaRahia is the communication director at the University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. In this role, she is tasked with establishing a cohesive, compelling brand for the college and increasing its visibility on a local, regional and global scale through event marketing, digital media management and relationship cultivation. In addition to higher education, LaRahia’s academic and professional work explores how social movement organizations use communication to increase visibility, establish legitimacy and obtain resources.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in communication from St. Edward’s University and a Master of Arts in public relations from the University of Houston.

Christopher Jackson is a native of West Tennessee and has lived in Houston for nine years. He holds a master's in education from Freed-Hardeman University and has an additional 30 hours in educational administration from The University of St. Thomas.

Christopher's K-12 educational career started in 2009 as a middle school technology teacher. After three years facilitating Office365 and Google Apps for education applications and best practices, his positioning as a teacher shifted by assisting district learning specialists with various purchases for instructional technology software. One of the main responsibilities was to train teachers and staff to use innovative technologies. Christopher's skillset also extends into the Makerspace realm, including coding, basic web design, 3-D design and Lego Robotics. He became a lead mentor for Lego Robotics, teaching design and fabrication using 3D printing and laser cutting.

Christopher has coached track and cross-country since 2011 and enjoys other outdoor recreation, such as mountain biking and hiking. Christopher enjoys being a father and husband to his wife Lucreshia of 18 years. He loves music – particularly 90s hip-hop, R&B and jazz – date nights, live concerts, traveling, and cooking and grilling.