Earnest Broughton presently serves as Senior Advisor to the Ethics & Compliance Initiative in Arlington, Virginia. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Mr. Broughton served as Executive Director of the Ethics Program for United Services Automobile Association (USAA) from 2000 to 2011 and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the Ethics and Compliance Association from 2009 to 2011. He is the co-founder and current President of the Greater San Antonio Ethics and Compliance Roundtable. Mr. Broughton holds a B.A. in Sociology from Texas State University, and an M.A. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from St. Mary’s University.
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Minette (Meme) Drumwright is a professor in the School of Advertising and Public Relations at the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She is director of the interdisciplinary Communication and Leadership Degree, UT’s only undergraduate leadership degree. She has a courtesy appointment in the Business, Government & Society Department and is an author and Advisory Board member for Ethics Unwrapped at UT’s McCombs School of Business. Additionally, she serves as co-chair of the Bridging Disciplines Program in Ethics and Leadership and a faculty fellow of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. Before joining the UT faculty, she was on the Marketing faculty of the Harvard Business School. Her research and teaching are in the areas of ethics, leadership, corporate social responsibility, and communication for nonprofit organizations, and has been published in a variety of journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Journal of Media Ethics. She is a member of UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers and has won numerous teaching awards. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Karen Kocher is an Austin-based media producer and professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department at The University of Texas at Austin. For over two decades, she has been creating media work for digital platforms, broadcast and physical installations. Hot off the press comes Barton Creek Time Stream, an interactive digital scrapbook chronicling 50+ years of citizen efforts to create the Barton Creek greenbelt and preserve its flora, fauna and water quality. The research generated by this project will inform an upcoming historical documentary. Over the past decade she has been producing an on-going series, Living Springs, about the culture, history and science of Barton Springs pool. Living Springs’ home base is the interactive theater at the Beverly S. Sheffield Education Center, a science education center at Barton Springs visited by over 90,000 people each year. Kocher has been teaching digital post-production, and occasionally documentary production and documentary history, for the RTF Department at the University of Texas at Austin since 1998. In 2004, she created the first course in interactive documentary within the Department of Radio-TV-Film. She taught documentary short course workshops as part of the UT Austin/Portugal CoLab in Lisbon, Portugal and Porto, Portugal from 2007-2011. In the summer of 2010, Ms. Kocher helmed a course in Video Poetry at the world-renowned Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.
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Jess is Executive Director at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is a Classicist with primary interests in ancient Greek oratory and comedy, higher education administration, and practical ethics pedagogy. As Executive Director, Jess is responsible for the center’s research agenda as well as oversight of the team managing the Center’s fellowships and programs. She oversees the development and expansion of Center initiatives, including the Innovation in Ethics Education Initiative and the Emergent Trends in Teaching and Learning Ethics at Harvard (ETTLE, part of the National Ethics Project). Prior to joining the Center, she spent five years implementing an ethics across the curriculum program at The University of Texas at Austin.
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As Research Director at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society at Stanford University, Anne advances the Center’s research initiatives, develops and directs the center’s programming for graduate students across campus, and leads the Center’s postdoc program. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University’s School of Education in philosophy of education. Her research interests focus on the intersection of contemporary political philosophy and education policy, and research ethics. She is a 2009 recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and the author of Realizing Educational Rights: Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and a co-author of Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth (Stanford University Press, 2009). Prior to joining the Center, she was an assistant professor at Washington University and a researcher at the University of California Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California.
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Robert Prentice is the Ed and Molly Smith Centennial Professor for Business Law at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin where he teaches business law and business ethics. He is also Founding Chair of the Department of Business, Government & Society at the McCombs School of Business. Additionally, he is Faculty Director of Ethics Unwrapped. Professor Prentice is an inaugural member of the UT System Board of Regents Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and recipient of numerous teaching awards. He has taught business ethics for more than 30 years, and publishes often in the field of behavioral ethics and business law.
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David Spence is the Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and a professor in the Business, Government and Society Department at the McCombs School of Business. His research and teaching focus on business-government relations and the regulation of business, particularly energy and environmental regulation.
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Mr. Jeffrey L. Swope is the Founder of Champion Partners Ltd. and serves as its Managing Partner. Mr. Swope was also one of the Co-Founders of Centre Development Co., Inc. and of Champion Private Equity, Ltd. He began his career at Trammell Crow Company and became a partner at the firm. Mr. Swope is an Independent Director of Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. His professional accomplishments have included being the Founding Chairman of The Real Estate Council, and Founding Chairman of the Real Estate and Finance Center at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute and serves as a Director of the Urban Land Institute Foundation. Mr. Swope was recognized as a Hall of Fame Member of both the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and the Dallas Board of Commercial Developers. He also serves on the University of Texas at Austin Business School Advisory Board and as a Trustee of the Business School Foundation at the University. Mr. Swope holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Business Administration from The University of Texas.
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Charles S. Teeple, IV, is a Real Estate Developer in Central Texas with a focus on multifamily construction. Charles was Founding Co-Chairman of the McCombs School of Business Ethics Advisory Council, a Founding Member of its’ Real Estate Finance and Investment Center, and a Life Member of the McCombs Advisory Council. He also serves as a Member of the IC2 Advisory Board and the Butler School of Music Advisory Council. Additionally, Charles is Past President of the Capitol Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and is an Elder at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Teeple received his BBA in 1966 and MBA in 1970 from McCombs. He was recognized as an Outstanding Young Texas Ex.
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