Fund For Teachers®

Authors, like teachers, invent, imagine, explore, create and inspire. Books sustain us. Behind every book is a story. Join us in Houston this fall when Gregory Maguire, author of the best-selling Wicked series, will headline the second annual "Fund for Teachers Food for Thought" luncheon. All proceeds will support transcendent learning experience for teachers.

Date: October 8, 2010, 12:00pm
Location: Hotel ZaZa, Houston, Texas
Tickets: $125.00 a person (Download the registration form here.)
Sponsorship opportunities starting at $1,500. Call for more information.
Questions: call Meghan Knox, 713-296-6141

Event Chair: Danielle Ellis
Honoree: Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein

Advisory Committee: Philamena Baird, Rose S. Cullen, Joanie Haley, Courtney Hopson, Beth Madison, Soraya McClelland, Kathy McCord, Ellen Susman, Sue Trammell Whitfield, Leticia Trauber, Martha Turner, Betty Tutor, Donna Grace Vallone, and Margaret Alkek Williams.

Sponsors: View our 2010 Sponsors

Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire is the author of the best-selling Wicked series which includes Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway and international hit musical Wicked. Maguire has also written several children's novels and has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships. In addition to writing, Maguire is a national figure in children’s literature education. From 1979 to 1986, he was a professor and associate director of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. A popular speaker, Maguire has lectured at universities, libraries, and arts and culture institutions in the U.S. and abroad. He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University. He divides his time with his family between Massachusetts and Vermont.

Kelli Cohen Fein
Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein shines in the community as a tireless philanthropist for many causes throughout the city. This year she was named to the Houston Chronicle's Best Dressed List benefitting the March of Dimes and chaired the Houston Symphony Gala. She has chaired or co-chaired major events for the Houston Holocaust Museum, Jewish Family Service, Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Center and the America Jewish Committee's Institute of Human Relations. Professionally, Kelli is a pediatric and general radiologist. She has given her time and expertise for more than 15 years to the Interprofessional Drug Education Alliance collaborating with attorneys to teach the medical and legal ramifications of drug use to elementary school students. She was President of the Houston Radiological Society and recently served as Chair of the Council of the Medical Specialty Societies on the Executive Board of the Harris County Medical Society. As teaching medical students, residents and fellows is one of her passions, she recently returned to school and was awarded a Doctoral Degree in Education where she wrote a dissertation pertaining to healing the physician-patient relationship. She feels exquisitely fortunate in her role as a loving wife and mother reveling in all that constitutes the meaning of family and home.