Kinder Institute to host ‘3 Mayors, 3 Cities, 1 Night’ forum featuring Houston Mayor Annise Parker

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Amy McCaig
713-348-6777
amym@rice.edu

Kinder Institute to host ‘3 Mayors, 3 Cities, 1 Night’ forum featuring Houston Mayor Annise Parker

HOUSTON – (April 8, 2015) – Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research will host a public roundtable discussion April 14 featuring current or former mayors of three wildly different cities. Annise Parker, mayor of Houston and Rice alumna; Bill Fulton, former mayor of Ventura, Calif., and current director of the Kinder Institute; and Jon Gnarr, comedian, pundit and former mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland, will have a frank and humorous discussion about what it means to be a mayor and share insights into the similarities and differences of their tenures in office. 

Moderated by Michael Emerson, academic director of the Kinder Institute and the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, “Three Mayors, Three Cities, One Night” will take place at 6 p.m. at the CenterPoint Energy Tower in downtown Houston and is free and open to the public; RSVPs are requested.

WHAT: “Three Mayors, Three Cities, One Night,” hosted by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research in partnership with Rice’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in Human Sciences.

WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14.

WHERE: CenterPoint Energy Tower, 1111 Louisiana St., Houston.

For more information on the event or to RSVP, visit http://kinder.rice.edu/3mayors/

Members of the media interested in attending may RSVP to Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777.

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