Mark Lacy:
CLASS OF 1982
Enid High SchoolClass of 1982
Enid, OK
University of Houston - CommunicationsClass of 1989
Houston, TX
University of Houston - Fine ArtsClass of 1989
Houston, TX
University of HoustonClass of 1989
Houston, TX
Mark's Story
I am executive director of the Houston Institute for Culture and the founder of the future Houston Museum of Culture. I also organize Camp Dos Cabezas, an educational adventure camp that provides at-risk children the experience of a lifetime to help them achieve success in their lives. As director of HIFC I oversee several initiatives, like the Digital Story Resource Center and Students for a Better Houston (a 13-year-old think tank!). I write for Literal-Latin American Voices magazine and others. I'm involved with Houston area community radio including KPFT Pacifica (I record for Progressive Forum) and KTRU Rice University Radio (I'm director of World Music). I organize educational tours from Mexico to New York and the Southwest. I organized volunteer efforts in New Orleans for several years after Hurricane Katrina.
{Now that I read this again, it all sounds pretty dull. But that's just the formal stuff. The interesting stories? I wouldn't know where to begin.}
My work allows me to travel extensively and I've...Expand for more
met more than 10 Nobel Peace Laureates and talked extensively with about half of them, including Linus Pauling, Rigoberta Menchu, Jody Williams, Oscar Arias Sanchez and Wangari Maathai. I've been invited to teach workshops from NASA to the Navajo Nation. I work with youth groups in Houston area schools and also in distant places, like the Onondoga Nation in Upstate New York. Leading education and adventure tours has taken me to some of the most spectacular parts of Mexico and the Colorado Plateau, and to the San Francisco bay area, New York and DC enough times to be mistaken for a local.
So, even though my work is mostly planning and management, the education side of it allows me many great adventures. Friends from across the country used to come to stay at "Hotel Mark" in the middle of Houston, but I've recently sold my centrally-located condo by the Astrodome and Rice University in order to locate myself closer to northern New Mexico where I'm hoping to create a permanent site for our camp for at-risk youth.
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