Julie Reardon M.D., founder of Lake Travis Integrative Medicine, believes in the integrative model in medicine, inclusive of practices designed to support health in body, mind, and spirit. After receiving a Magna Cum Laude degree in psychology from Harvard University, she completed her medical training at The University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Before moving to Austin, Dr. Reardon worked in several cities around the United States as well as in New Zealand and among the world’s most poor and vulnerable at a clinic in Bangladesh. She is board certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine.
Tom Hedrick is the founder and Managing Director of Dillon Joyce Ltd, a private investment firm, and an Operating Partner at The Stephens Group, LLC. A former Managing Partner of McKinsey and Company’s Dallas office, he has a long history serving and advising education-related non profits. He currently serves on the steering committee of Early Matters Greater Austin and is on the National Advisory Council of the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center.
Alison Alter proudly serves on the Austin City Council representing the central and northwest District 10 since 2017. Dr. Alter is a Harvard-trained economist with over 20 years of experience as an educator, small business owner, innovator, and community activist. Council member Alter sees government as a force for positive change. During this pandemic she is using her office and leveraging community resources to make strategic choices and investments to help the most people possible and improve Austin’s resilience.
Brett A. Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, a Public Benefit Corporation (and Certified B Corporation®) that is the platform for modern data teamwork and the world’s largest collaborative data community, including public COVID-19 datasets. data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. data.world's cloud-native data catalog maps its customers' siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can understand, and use.
He began programming at age seven and doing so on the Internet at age eighteen. Brett published his book, “The Entrepreneur’s Essentials”, in August 2019 (available at medium.com/@databrett for free).
As the founder of Digi.City and editor-at-large for Smart Cities Connect, Chelsea Collier is focused on the development of smarter, more equitable, more connected communities. She is a University of Manchester (UK) Simon Industrial & Professional Fellow (2019), a Marshall Memorial Fellow (2018) and an Eisenhower Fellow (2016). She lives in Austin, Texas and is active in the local tech and social impact communities. Her masters and bachelor degrees are from the University of Texas at Austin.
Austin attorney Paul Huggins is the father of a senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Before earning his law degree at the University of Texas Law School and becoming a technology and business lawyer, Huggins studied history as an undergraduate at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Robert Brehm is a Master of Public Health candidate at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health and a Columnist for Urbānitūs.
He is a graduate of the Master of Global Policy Studies program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He contributed to a 2019 book on Emerging Policy Practices in Latin America, writing a chapter on Prevalence and Burden of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Latin America.
He holds a BA in History and Anthropology from Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Susana Almanza, a native of East Austin, is a political and environmental activist, a former radio journalist, city planning commissioner and member of the Chicano rights group Brown Beret. Currently, she is the director of People Organized for the Defense of Earth and Her Resources, PODER, the environmental justice advocacy she helped found in 1991.
