Luis wears many hats in helping community to thrive. He works in the IT field and founded Asian Pacific American Employee Resource Group (APA ERG) Houston Chapter at Comcast. He has a cat and he loves gardening. His favorite vacation spot was Hawaii and became a permanent resident before moving to Houston.

Penina is a warehouse manager for an art and frame gallery and works with TAPA Houston. Her memorable vacation spot was a trip with her sisters to Spain. She was raised from the time she could walk as a performer in her family’s Polynesian entertainment company.

Cathy has been working with the Asian Community in Houston for several years to help create a greater awareness of this amazing cultural destination in the City of Houston. She worked at the Chinese Community Center for 2 years prior to the pandemic.  She worked with the Asia Society Texas Center to create a Virtual Asiatown Tour during the pandemic. She started her company, Houston Asiatown Tours in 2021 to continue to educate people about our Asian Community in Houston.

Among Jim's varied career experiences, he worked as a safety diver in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, researched lunar soil samples including the lunar orange soil and lunar rocks, worked on the development of the space suits needed for future Space Shuttle missions and worked and performed Arc Jet heat shield testing for upcoming Space Shuttle flights. 

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For the last decade Jennifer has followed a professional journey in the political arena working as a political strategist for over 9 years. Over the last two years of her operative career before she started with the Texas Senate she transitioned to a PR and media relations heavy portfolio working for a Cybersecurity Public Relations firm expanding her skill set to include writing thought leader pieces for a number of publications from the New York Times and Forbes to small tech publications.

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