Robert Locander holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of New Mexico. His professional articles and reviews have appeared in “Presidential Studies Quarterly,” “The American Political Science Review,” and “The Texas Journal of Political Science.” Locander has been a long-time faculty member at Lone Star College – North Harris. He has also taught courses on politics at Lamar University, the University of Houston, and the University of Houston-Downtown. Outside of teaching, Locander has served as a civic club president, the vice-president of a Harris County MUD and a Catholic school board member.
For over 43 years, Richard C. Shaw was active in the Texas union movement. Shaw retired in 2017 from his position as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Harris County AFL-CIO Council. Prior to his 1995 election to the labor council, he had been the president of the Houston Federation of Teachers. After leaving HFT, Shaw held posts with AFSCME Local 1550 as a business representative and as an executive director, in addition to serving as a vice president of the Texas AFL-CIO. Shaw has also worked in government for the City of Houston and is an election judge for Harris County voting Precinct 165.
After leaving college teaching, Kevin Bailey took a position in Houston city government as the chief of staff for Councilmember Dale Gorczynski. In 1990 Bailey ran and won an election to the Texas House of Representatives for District 140. During his 18 years as a legislator in Austin, he chaired the House Committees on Urban Affairs and General Investigating and Ethics. Bailey was one of the co-founders of the Legislative Study Group in the House. Holding political science degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and Sam Houston State University, Bailey is now on the faculty at Houston Community College.
