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Kay & Britt Rice Lecture Series - 10/7/2004

Jacqueline Adams
Jacqueline Adams is a former White House correspondent for CBS News. Currently, she advises corporate as well as non-profit organizations on strategic planning and communications issues. She helps upper management adapt quickly and devise creative solutions in a range of diverse cultures.

Ms. Adams former positions included Managing Director for Clark & Weinstock, Inc., where she developed strategic messages and campaigns for corporate and political clients in the pharmaceutical, insurance, steel, legal, sports management, and software industries. She was a CBS News Correspondent from 1979-2000, earning a 1990 News and Documentary Emmy Award for the 48 Hours broadcast, "The Search for Matthew." On The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, she covered social issues, crime, medical, and economic stories.

Ms. Adams holds an MBA from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.


Audrey Shabbas
Audrey Shabbas has developed curriculum and conducted teacher workshops for the Middle East Policy Council and other groups for twenty-two years. She has taught teachers to understand Middle Eastern and Islamic cultures and has written curriculum for secondary, middle, and elementary students.

Ms. Shabbas has been active in United Nations efforts to promote international understanding and peace. In 1992, she was awarded the Janet Lee Stevens Awards for contributions to Arab-American understanding (University of Pennsylvania).


Victor Arizpe
Victor Arizpe is Professor of Spanish at Texas A&M and heads the newly-formed Department of Hispanic Studies. Born in Madero, Texas, a Mexican American community three miles south of Mission, Texas, and honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 1969, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan with a Ford Foundation fellowship. He has written extensively on Peninsular Spanish language and literature; Golden Age Spanish prose, drama, poetry, and rhetorical studies; and Spanish American colonial literature.

Dr. Arizpe is currently editing a 17th century work, León prodigioso, by Cosme Gómez Tejada de los Reyes in collaboration with Dr. Abraham Madroñal from Spain. Previously at Texas A&M, Dr. Arizpe served as Spanish language coordinator for undergraduate courses in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.