Commission on the HISD Takeover

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Commission Chairs
Texas Senator Molly Cook
Texas Representative Lauren Ashley Simmons
Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston; scholar and social justice activist

Commission Members
Dan Dawer, University of Texas PhD candidate in Educational Leadership & Policy
Geneva Jones, education attorney, national scope
​Jasmin Lee, PhD candidate at Rice in sociology.
Domingo Morel, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University; author, Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (2018, Oxford University Press).
Steven (Steve) L. Nelson, J.D, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Education Policy & Leadership in the Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education Department at University of Nevada Las Vegas
Guadalupe San Miguel, University of Houston historian and researcher emeritus
Kay Wasden, Founder and President, Community of Resources (COR)
Rachel Williams, University of Wisconsin Madison, Dept. of Educational Studies
Emily Yanez, HISD Student Representative
​Melissa Yarborough, HISD parent and former HISD teacher

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