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Stan Richards Professor in Creative Advertising, SMU

Topic: We Are All Homeless

Willie Baronet is the former owner and Creative Director of the advertising firm, GroupBaronet. In 2006, he sold the company, went back to grad school to earn an MFA in Arts & Technology (UTD) and now teaches Advertising Design at SMU, where he has been recognized with the prestigious “M” award, the highest recognition bestowed upon students, faculty, staff and administrators on the SMU Campus. Honorees are an inspiration to others, giving unselfishly of their time and talents in order to make the University, and indeed the world, a better place.

A graduate of Texas Christian University’s Bob Schieffer College of Communication, Krys began her career as a journalist along the U.S./Mexico border and returned to North Texas in 1999 to serve as News Director for Broadcast.com, and later Senior Producer of Broadcast News at Yahoo. Krys joined KERA in 2001, hosting the nightly radio talk show "Conversations." Later, she wrote and produced documentary and educational television programs, including the critically-acclaimed, nationally broadcast "JFK: Breaking the News" in 2003, and served as producer and co-host of the Emmy Award-winning public affairs program "On The Record." She also hosted a weekly television version of "Think" from 2007-2011.

Bridwell Library Director, SMU

Topic: The Secret Histories of Paper and Printing—Antique Battles and Wild Renaissances

Anthony Elia is the director of Bridwell Library and associate dean for Special Collections and Academic Publishing. At Bridwell he has overseen the acquisitions of various historical theology collections including the World Methodist Museum, archives from the United Methodist Publishing House, and the Upper Room. He is interested in the histories of paper, printmaking, typography, ink, calligraphy, and books.  Looking at East and Central Asia, where the paper trade coincided with the emergence and flourishing of new schools of thought, he will recount the curious histories of the paper and print world leading up to the Gutenberg revolution in the 15th century.  More info

Co-authors

Topic: "Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever"

Burk Murchison was born and raised in Dallas and continues to live here with his wife Elise. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and currently is a partner with his brother Robert in Murchison Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity investment partnership, which the two established in 1992. Murchison has rooted for the Cowboys since their founding in 1960 and remains a loyal fan despite the team’s failure to qualify for the Super Bowl for the past 28 seasons and counting.

Michael Granberry was born and grew up in Dallas. He graduated from Samuell High School in Pleasant Grove in 1970 and from Southern Methodist University in 1974. He is an alumnus of the SMU Daily Campus, having served as sports editor, associate editor and editor-in-chief (fall 1973) before graduating. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973. He spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times before returning to Dallas in 1997 to work for his hometown newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, where he had earlier worked as a Sunday magazine feature writer from 1976 to 1978. He retired from The News on January 1 of this year, 54 years after his first byline appeared in the Dallas Times Herald in 1969. He and his wife, Nancy Churnin, a bestselling children’s book author, live in West Plano, with two cats and a dog named Dog.