About Baylor

After Arthur's first novel, Memoirs of a Geisha, was published in the fall of 1997 to great critical acclaim, it stayed on The New York Times' bestseller list for several months and sold over half a million copies.

Tom Jolly was in one of the hottest of the hot seats on Election Night 2000. As part of the team that oversees the front page of the venerable New York Times, Tom worked into the wee hours in an effort to report the outcome of a presidential election that was too close to call.

Tene has more than 15 years of experience as a project director and consultant in the areas of genetic counseling and research, community outreach and education, grant operations and policy recommendations.

Morris "Sandy" Weinberg Jr. has been on the winning side of numerous high-profile cases throughout his almost 40 years as a federal prosecutor and private practitioner. He led the defense in a historical health care fraud case, secured a dismissal of charges in a rare criminal case brought against a religion, and led the prosecution in one of the country's most celebrated tax fraud cases.

"Child life lets me combine my interest in medicine and psychology with my love of working with children," says Robyn. "I know I'm doing something worthwhile when I see a child who has been anxious and scared about being in the hospital smile when I come through the door."

When he heard that David Merrick was bringing the hit show "Oliver," to New York, Don made a bold move and asked Merrick to be conductor and musical director. "Why should I give it to you?" Merrick asked. "Because I love the music, and nobody could ever do it as well as I could," Don said. Merrick gave Don, then in his early 20s, the job with the warning, "You'd better be as good as you think you are."

Young is blonde and settled in Austin, Texas, and Farrar is a free spirited brunette who feels at home in Los Angeles. But the sisters share a love of music, and their disparate paths gave them the complementary skills they needed to establish their music label, Ea­gle Ear Entertainment.

"In the fight for clean water, my avenue has hap­pened to be via salmon, but there are lots of different ways to do it. Being in the Pacific Northwest brought me to salmon and to an understanding of the critical role they play in the history, culture, and biology here."

"My experience in Jamaica led me to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I may have ended up as a teacher if I hadn't found my interest in international service, but I can't just say I'm a teacher at Peace Child India; it doesn't encompass everything that goes on here."

"Starting a company is like giving birth; everything is always at the infant stage," said Studer of the $200 million group of companies that is a combination of a venture capital company and startup incubator. "It's where you can have the biggest impact and where the energy is."

Often credited with Rumi's popularity in the English-speaking world, Barks's translations have sold more than a million and a half copies. From the beginning, translating Rumi was "like a spiritual practice for me — and it still is. The publishing is like a 'by the way.'"

"(I want) to have the opportunity to support the President's 2020 goal where America will have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world again."

"The purpose of our department is to develop and implement leisure and recreation programming for individuals with disabilities...What can individuals with disabilities not participate in? The answer, of course, is nothing."

Brooke was a four-time state champion at Baylor and an NCAA champion and three-time All-American at the University of Alabama. In 2012, she was a member of the US Curtis Cup team, was the SEC Female Athlete of the Year, and a finalist for the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

While she was stationed at Royal Air Force Lakenheath outside London, Catlin logged more than 500 combat hours in Afghanistan and Iraq, conducting personnel recovery and casualty evacuation operations.