2024 Dinner and Conversation

Center for Houston’s Future’s signature fall event, Dinner and Conversation presented by Harvey|Harvey-Cleary, featured an exciting conversation, A Texas Talk: Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future, between two important Texas voices. Stephen Harrigan, the award-winning author of 12 fiction and non-fiction books, including Big Wonderful Thing, a sweeping narrative of Texas history, appeared in conversation with Sonal Shah, CEO of the Texas Tribune, who has a long record of social impact work across multiple sectors.

We were honored to present the Eugene H. Vaughan Civic Leadership Award to Stan Marek, President and CEO of Marek Companies, for his long record of outstanding leadership, service and contributions across our region, including his tireless focus on sensible immigration reform.

David E. Harvey Jr. and Joe Cleary, co-chairmen of the board of Harvey|Harvey-Cleary, chaired our annual community engagement and thought leadership event.

 

 

Dinner & Conversion 2024 Gallery

Event Tickets and Sponsorship

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Have Questions?
For more information, please contact Mary Doughtie, Director of Development, at 713-844-9362 or mdoughtie@futurehouston.org.

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Presenting Sponsor

Premier Underwriter

Valet Sponsor

Honored Benefactor

Benefactors

Media Sponsor 

Hors D’Oeuvres Sponsor 

Patrons

Adams Insurance Service

Alley Theatre

Amegy Bank

Arnold Ventures

BlueCross BlueShield

Camden Properties

Centerpoint Energy

Deloitte

Gilbane Building Company

Holes, Inc.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

JLL

King & Spalding

Marchbanks Company

Memorial Hermann

Port Houston

Rice University

St. Luke’s Health

Tellepsen Family

AV Sponsor

Event Co-Chairs 

Joseph A Cleary Jr.,  Co-Chairman, Harvey|Harvey-Cleary

David E. Harvey, Jr., Co-Chairman, Harvey|Harvey-Cleary

Honorary Chairs 

Dan Bellow

Laura Bellows

Art Canales

Anne Chao

Darlene East

Tom Forney

Dan Gilbane

Wes Hudson

John Kafka

Jim and Sandi Lemming

Gene Reed

Anne-Laure and Steve Stephens

Howard Tellepsen

Tom Vaughn

Meg and Dick Weekley

Host Committee

 Saied Alavi

Joni Baird

Hon. Jacquie Baly

Astley Blair

Scott Burdine

Ric Campo

Donna Cole

Margaret Vaughan Cox and Jonathan Cox

Bob Eury

Richard Everett

Marcia Faschingbauer

Roland Garcia

Joni D. Goodman

Vicki and Bob Harvey

Winell Herron

Nicolas Jimenez

Melissa and Steve Kean

Donald R. Kendall, Jr.

Heather Linton

George Martinez

Catherine Mosbacher

Scott Nyquist

Susan Osterberg

Leila Perrin

Divya Reddy

Beth Robertson

Regina Rogers

Jeanne- Mey Sun

Y. Ping Sun

Paula Sutton

Heida Thurlow

Phoebe & Bobby Tudor

Ann and Richard Vaughan

Caroline Vetterling

Janeice Weinand

Beth Wolff

Carlecia Wright

Melinda Yee