Engaging Conversations - Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody

Serving Our Community

Our annual fundraiser, started by the firm in 2000, places guests around dinner tables hosted by some of the most accomplished and intriguing people in the country, providing a rare opportunity to engage in conversation with business and civic leaders, entertainers, authors, educators and other exceptional individuals. Each year, a different Central Texas charity is selected as the beneficiary of the fundraiser.

Graves Dougherty is pleased to announce the 2008 Engaging Conversations event will benefit People's Community Clinic.

People's Community Clinic is a non-profit, primary health care facility whose purpose is to provide high quality medical, counseling and health education services at reasonable costs to individuals and families in the Austin area.

2008 Table Hosts

Jean Andrews Expert on peppers and author of Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums; acclaimed illustrator and painter; author of books on wildflowers and sea shells; serious collector of folk art and textiles

Ray Benson Grammy-winning performer and member of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel; Grammy nominee for the solo album Beyond Time; board member, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians

Betty Dunkerley Former Mayor Pro Tem, Austin City Council; former Assistant City Manager; recipient of the Austin Business Journal Health Care Special Achievement Award for 2008

Ronnie Earle Travis County District Attorney since 1976 known for innovative programs in prosecution; former member of the Texas House of Representatives; former presiding judge of the Austin Municipal Court

Desiree Ficker Professional triathlete who placed second in the Hawaii Ironman competition; top collegiate runner; competing athlete since the age of nine

DeAnn Friedholm U.S. resident advisor to the South African National Treasury in Pretoria; former executive director of the Children's Defense Fund of Texas; former human resources coordinator, Texas Office of State-Federal Relations

Carie Graves Head women's rowing coach at The University of Texas at Austin; former head coach of women's rowing at Northeastern University in Boston and at Harvard/Radcliffe; Olympic gold medalist

Bart Knaggs Partner in Capital Sports and Entertainment representing clients including Lance Armstrong and Austin City Limits; Texas State Champion Road cyclist; founding member, Lance Armstrong Foundation

Nashid Madyun Director, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; former executive director, Stax Museum of American Soul Music; former president, Gibson Retail Group, a division of Gibson Musical Instruments

Judy Maggio Co-anchor, CBS KEYE 42 evening news; voted Best News Anchor in Austin for eight years in a row in the Austin Chronicle Readers' Poll; broadcast journalist in Austin since 1981

Lucy Collins Nazro Head of School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School; first woman to receive a master's degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest; honorary doctor of humane letters, the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University

Cliff Redd Executive director, the Long Center for the Performing Arts; head of the multimillion-dollar campaign to open the center's Dell Concert Hall and Rollins Studio Theater this year

Jeanette Scott Art director and set decorator on major motion pictures including Sin City, Selena and the Spy Kids series; winner, Best Production Design award, San Diego Film Critics Society

BJ Stanbery Founder, HelioVolt Corporation; leading figure in the business and the science of renewable energy; solar industry innovator and pioneer; winner, 2008 R&D 100 Award

Steven Tomlinson Writer and performer of the nationally acclaimed Off-Broadway one-man show American Fiesta; teacher in the MBA Program at the Acton School of Business and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest

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