Mindful Giving – Speaker Bios

Greg Hambrick has been an active resident of Houston for over 40 years, spending over 35 years professionally in the mid-stream energy industry and in civic service through a variety of organizations serving in the areas of youth sports, schools, church, homelessness and others.
He co-founded two nonprofit organizations: 1) Archway Academy, Houston’s first sober high school and 2) Evergreen Urban Farms who built the aquaponics greenhouse at Pro Vision School in Sunnyside.  He is the CEO of The Baxter Trust and serves on the boards of several area nonprofits, including the Houston Philanthropy Circle. 

Houston Philanthropy Circle Advisory Board Member Will Cravens serves as Executive Vice President on the Board of Directors at Scanlan Foundation, which was founded in 1947 to further the Roman Catholic Church in Texas. Will is an advocate for faith-based therapy not only as it relates to Scanlan Foundation’s strategic objectives for Human Dignity but also as a personal interest and conviction that philanthropists have an important role to fill when it comes to understanding how faith plays a part in healthy healing. A member of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Will also serves on the boards of Cullinan Park Conservancy, Vocation Ministry, and Gratia Plena, a faith-based mental health counseling ministry. He was recently named Vice Chair of St. Luke’s Foundation. Prior to entering the nonprofit world, Will worked for many years in the heavy civil construction and construction services industry and has served as president of several construction companies.

Dr. Mathew is the Marjorie Bintliff Johnson and Raleigh White Johnson, Jr. Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of the Mood & Anxiety Disorders Program.   He also serves as a staff physician at the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center in Houston and a Senior Scientist at The Menninger Clinic.   He graduated from Dartmouth College and Baylor College of Medicine, and trained as a resident in psychiatry at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.   He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in mood and anxiety disorders at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.   Prior to his current position, he served as faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he co-directed the Mood & Anxiety Disorders Program.  Over the past 20 years, his research program has been awarded funding from the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, major foundations, and industry, and focuses on experimental therapies and understanding brain mechanisms for treatment-resistant mood/anxiety disorders and PTSD.  His research group has a particular interest in studying rapid-acting and novel antidepressant treatments such as ketamine.  His program employs multiple neuroimaging techniques to uncover potential biomarkers associated with clinical outcomes. 
Dr. Mathew has authored or co-authored over 200 manuscripts and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of several journals.   He serves as President-Elect of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, a national professional organization devoted to the improvement of lives for people with these conditions, and is a board member of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.   Dr. Mathew is an active clinician and has been awarded “Best Doctor” honors annually since 2011.  

Dr. Stanford has served as CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston for 10 years and is adjunct professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital’s Institute for Academic Medicine. His research on the role of faith communities in mental health care has been featured in such national publications as The New York Times, USA Today, Christianity Today, and U.S. News & World Report.
Stanford earned his doctoral degree in behavioral neuroscience at Baylor University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Professionally he has worked with a variety of mentally ill clients, including those with aggression, personality disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance dependence, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
A fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, he is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience as well as five books, including his latest, Madness and Grace: A Practical Guide for Pastoral Care and Serious Mental Illness.

Dr. Kevin E. Stuart is an assistant professor of political science, director of the Master in Public Policy & Administration program, and director of the Catholic Studies program. Previously, he served as president of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family & Culture, a social science research institute in Austin, Texas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied public law and political philosophy, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. He earned a Master of Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science after receiving undergraduate degrees in history and English literature from Louisiana State University. He is the chairman of the Diocesan School Advisory Board for the Diocese of Austin, editor of the Catholicism & Society book series for the Society for Catholic Social Scientists (Franciscan University Press), a former headmaster at St. Mary’s Catholic High School (Taylor, Tex.) and the owner of an award-winning political consulting and media firm. He and his wife have three children and are constantly working on their nearly 100-year-old house.