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PRESTON HOLLOW ADVOCATE VOL.22 NO.7

PROFILE 10 Jana Rentzel DINING 18 Baking queen FEATURES 14 Coding warriors 16 Teacher of the year 22 Christa Sanford 24 Fierce females 32 Reshaping Dallas law COLUMNS 39 Worship

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or Dr. Margaret Christensen, her vocation is more than a profession: It’s a lifeline.

“In the past, women patients would return to me, continuing to complain of fatigue, multiple vague physical complaints, feeling hormonally imbalanced and often overwhelmed. And I was one of them,” she says.

A practicing OB/GYN for years, Dr. Christensen found herself at death’s door with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, forcing her to close her old practice. Her spouse and four children also became ill with chronic infections, migraines, severe anxiety, ADD, asthma and even Parkinson’s.

The culprit? Undetected biotoxin mold silently lurking in the family’s 1920’s era home. But she didn’t find that out for another 8 years….

Driven for solutions for herself and grief for her two special needs children, Dr. Christensen dove into Functional Medicine and started a tiny new practice, now 20+ years later it has evolved into the multi-disciplinary Carpathia Collaborative- to root out and help neighbors rectify sources of chronic diseases and live healthier, longer lives through practical application of the new specialty of “Functional Medicine” by a group of professionals here in our neighborhood.

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re depression, insomnia, ADD, anxiety and behavior issues really caused by a deficiency of a pharmaceutical — or something else?”

Carpathia Collaborative’s approach isn’t “alternative.” Dr. Christensen says it applies basic physiology and biochemistry, backed with cutting edge nutritional science.

At Carpathia Collaborative, Dr. Christensen and her team of specialists hone in on her passions of creating hormonal harmony.

They focus on how environment, nutrition, genetics and lifestyle factor into health issues such as fertility, menopause, anxiety, sleep, weight challenges, depression and fatigue.

It’s a very personalized approach of helping their clients achieve vibrant energy and long-term wellbeing.

Whether for those simply wanting to feel their best, optimize focus and look great, to supporting those with chronic complex illnesses like autoimmune, heart and gastrointestinal

challenges. Since COVID they’ve been busy supporting “long -haulers” in regaining their wellbeing.

So why haven’t we heard more about integrative approaches?

She says a huge piece of the problem is 80% of all television advertising now comes from Big Pharma…

She says currently one out of every four adults and one of every five kids under age 18 is on a psychiatric drug— often needlessly since there are effective natural solutions to many of the problems!

Working with her as part of Carpathia Collaborative are MDs, NDs, NPs, naturopathic acupuncturists, dieticians, functional neurologic chiropractors and integrative pharmacists.

Besides hormones, Dr. Christensen’s team helps to support brain injuries, autoimmune and degenerative conditions such as MS, early Alzheimer’s and autoimmunity by detoxification strategies, stimulating underactive brain areas and cooling down overactive ones. Advanced IV nutritional therapies along with their lymphatic system treatments combat edema and flush out impurities, she says.

“Healing comes from the inside out. Our bodies have amazing healing properties. We identify and treat the root issue instead of band-aiding everything with drugs and surgeries,” she says.

“Traditional medicine has its place, but the solution isn’t always ‘cut it out and drug it out.’”!

Dr. Christensen and her team are fiercely passionate and have the tools to help you not just survive, but thrive!

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Meet spiritual psychologist and painter Jana Rentzel › Interview by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

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ver since she was little, Jana Rentzel had an artistic flair. She loved painting and drawing.

But she also loved God. Her Protestant family attended church every Sunday in her hometown, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

“It really didn’t address my deeper spiritual questions.

And so I actually moved away from the church once I got to college,” she says.

After earning a fine arts degree at Memphis College of Art, she moved to Dallas for a job as the head illustrator for Neiman Marcus’ nationwide advertising.

She could work remotely, so she decided to move to a small cabin in Colorado. That’s where she was introduced to Buddhism.

Nestled in the mountains, she began a seven-year training with Greg Tzinberg in Ageless Wisdom Teachings.

“I studied and practiced Buddhism for that period of time, and not with the intent of becoming a Buddhist, but just because it was really addressing my deeper spiritual search,” she says.

Rentzel still talks to Tzinberg and his wife every week.

In 1992, she started her master’s degree in transpersonal psychology and began training to be a counselor. She eventually received a doctorate in psycho-oncology and worked as the chaplain at Baylor University Medical Center.

Rentzel, who still paints, now teaches at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology’s certification in spiritual direction, along with her online retreat program, Luminaries.

It’s always been so important to be able to work with people using both toolboxes.

WHAT IS SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND HOW DOES THAT DIFFER FROM TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGY? The schools of psychology that are most prevalent are cognitive behavioral. And so really looking at our cognitions, how we think, how our thoughts influence our behaviors. And while that’s all hugely wonderful, and really important, there’s another dimension to who we are, and that’s our spiritual nature. How we perceive ourselves to be at a deeper — some people would even consider it our immortal level — who we were before we were born, who will be after we die.

And a spiritual source, whether we call that God or ultimate reality, or Buddha, nature or whatever we call that deeper aspect of who we truly are, that has a huge effect on people’s lives and their perceptions of that.

HOW HAS YOUR OWN SPIRITUALITY CHANGED? I love to think that I’m a good enough teacher that I’m learning as much as I’m teaching. So I think that’s a big part of it. I have grown much more spiritual.

I’m married, and I have three stepdaughters. I have six grandchildren. I’ve got two golden doodle doggies that are like my four-legged children. So I have a really full life. But what I’ve really learned, that means so much to me, is how to integrate my outer more worldly life with my inner spiritual life so that they’re not two separate things. I love that I’ve gotten to a place in my life where I can have one foot in both worlds pretty much all the time. It allows me to bring a lot more love and compassion and peace and calmness into my life and hopefully, into the world around me.

DO YOUR COURSES COVER THE MAJOR RELIGIONS? I follow some of the primary mystical teachers of all ages. So right now, I’m teaching a course based on Sufism, which is the mystical arm of Islam, and many corresponding similarities to Christianity and Judaism.

On the surface, things can look really different. But when you get to the core tenets and principles, they all start looking a lot alike and it’s from that deeper core that I really pull from.

HOW DO YOUR SMU COURSES DIFFER FROM THE LUMINARIES COURSES? Well, they’re in person, which I really love. And this is set up for professionals, people already working in the field of either theology or counseling of some sort.

But it’s set up where people attend three intensive weekends a year for three years.

DO YOU STILL PAINT? I have a studio in my home. I’m not doing portrait commissions anymore, because my time got so limited that I decided if I didn’t have that much time to paint, I’d rather paint what I wanted to paint. And I’ve got plans in the works for a book that I want to write. A lot of what you and I have been talking about about our spiritual unfoldment, I want to illustrate as well with painting. So that’s going to be a project that will probably keep me busy and out of trouble for the next few years.

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“It’s a domino effect: people don’t want to sell without a place to go. We put the pieces tougher,” Frey says. In addition to her first-love — real estate — SMU alumna Frey is an avid runner, enjoys fly fishing in Argentina and spends time in Crested Butte, Colorado.

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ne of Aaronda Smith’s students was pulled out of class for not wearing the uniform. Rather than chastising the student, Smith asked why.

As it turns out, the eighth-grader didn’t have one. Smith spent her lunch break at the store, buying her an outfit so that she’d be in uniform for the rest of the day.

When the teenager came out of the classroom and turned to look at her teacher, she beamed from ear-to-ear.

“She smiled and said, ‘I look so pretty,’” Smith says. “She told me, ‘No one has ever done anything like this for me ever,’ and she was just crying.”

More than 20% of the school’s students are considered economically disadvantaged, and many have home situations that make focusing on schoolwork difficult, Smith says. That makes moments like these even more important.

Smith was awarded Dallas ISD’s Teacher of the Year in the Choice/Magnet category this year. An eighth-grade teacher at George Bannerman Dealey Montessori and Vanguard Academy, she’s worked at DISD for 16 years, instructing middle- and high-schoolers in reading, debate, success strategies, literary genres and creative writing.

As a young girl, Smith never dreamed of being an educator. She struggled with mental health and self-image as a teenager and often found herself in the nurse’s office talking about her struggles with suicidal ideation.

“My emotions just kind of got the best of me,” Smith says. “Then her (the nurse) husband preached a message that literally was our conversation … She said that you can’t control your destiny.”

Smith stayed in close contact with the nurse as she got older but decided against education when she got to college because of the demand of the job and low salary.

“My teachers sacrificed so much for me,” she says. “I felt like they deserved the world. But I thought if I became a teacher, I couldn’t give them (the students) that.”

Smith started out at the University of Texas at Arlington as a psychology major but ended up having to switch to education to graduate. It was then that she looked over her life and realized that education provided a platform to produce meaningful people.

“To be honest, I gave my life to God, and that’s what saved my life,” she says.

“But for people who don’t have that, having a teacher who does can help them navigate the world.”

Though rewarding, Smith says being a teacher takes a toll. At times, she was sure this year was her last, especially after seeing her scores were lower than usual.

“This is why the Teacher of the Year thing is so significant to me, because it is a testament that the system does not determine your ability as a teacher,” she says.

Smith sees this distinction as a way for other teachers to relate to her more and realize that scores aren’t conducive to teaching ability.

“You come from so many hard trials and tribulations, and you find your way to a place like this. It’s not a pedestal to me,” Smith says. “But while I’m here, I want to do everything that I can to show my gratitude for the recognition, for the accolades, for the love, for the cheers. I’m extremely honored to be the Teacher of the Year.”

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From celebrity clients to illusion cakes, Lauren Kitchens can bake anything Story by LUCY ERSPAMER

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Fo r L a u r e n K i t c h e n s , t h e f i rs t s e e d of w h a t wo u l d b e come a thriving business wa s a c h i l d h o o d fa sc i n a t i o n w i t h p i p i n g ba gs u se d by t h e p a s t r y c h e f s o n c h a n n e l 1 3.

K i tc h e n s m a d e a b u n d t ca ke for a friend her senior year of high school and immediatel y c o n n e c te d t o t h e p r i d e o f c rea t i n g so m e t h i n g t h a t d e l i g h te d h e r f r i e n d , eve n i f, by h e r ow n a d m i ss i o n , t h e ca ke wa s n ’ t ve r y go o d . T h ro u g h out college, she continued m a k i n g c a kes.

“I couldn’t stop making c a ke s ,” s h e s a y s . “ I t ’s l i ke I wa s b i t t e n .”

K i tc h e n s ba ke d a l l k i n d s of c a kes a n d h a n d e d t h e m o u t t o h e r c l a s s m a t e s . T h ro u g h w o rd o f m o u t h , s h e s t a r t e d ge t t i n g p a i d t o m a ke ca ke s, eve n we d d i n g c a ke s.

After college, Kitchens re n t e d h e r p a re n t s ’ k i t c h e n for $200 a month while worki n g pa r t- t i m e a t a ba ke r y. F i n a l l y, i n 2 0 0 2 , Fa n c y C a ke s

by L a u re n o p e n e d i t s d o o rs, a n d K i tc h e n s wa s t h r u st i n to t h e we d d i n g i n d u st r y.

“This is the only event ( we d d i n g s e a so n ) t h a t h a p pens consistently throughout t h e ye a r,” s h e s a ys . “ T h i s i s the only place where I can make large-scale cakes on a constant basis. So I was l i ke, O K , I ’ m i n t h e we d d i n g i n d u s t r y.”

In 2008, Kitchens was a s k e d t o a p p e a r o n Fo o d N e two r k C h a l l e n ge, t h e f i rst t e l ev i s e d c a ke - b a k i n g c o m petition. She was reluctant at f i rst , d o u b t i n g h e r s k i l l s, b u t she won multiple episodes of t h e s h ow.

“ N o t h i n g c h a n ges yo u r a r t form like competing. Nothi n g ,” s h e says. “ B e ca u se yo u want to be better than the p e rso n n ex t to yo u . Yo u wa n t to be better than the cake yo u b ro u g h t l a st t i m e.”

The cakes she made on Food Network Challenge were extravagant and creative. Her m o st n o t a b l e o n e was a replica of all the judges as muppets. Cakes like these changed the demands of h e r c l i e n ts.

During the first decade of her business, groom’s cakes were all chocolate and strawberries, Kitchens says. But n o w, s h e c re a t e s a l l k i n d s o f ove rthe-top, realistic cakes, everything from dogs to s p o r t s st a d i u m s.

“Making these g ro o m ’s c a k e s i s the thing that sets m e a p a r t ,” K i t c h ens says. She even encourages b r i d es to p l a n t h e g ro o m ’s ca ke a s a s u r p r i se.

Her customers i n c l u d e h i g h - p ro file clients, like G we n S tefa n i a n d Blake Shelton.

T h e i r f i ve - t i e r we d d i n g ca ke wa s i n s p i re d by t h e o n e S te f a n i ’s p a r e n t s h a d a t t h e i r c e re m o ny.

After people began gathering again in 2021, her business

“I couldn’t stop making cakes. It’s like I was bitten.”

m o re t h a n d o u b l e d . N o w, Fa n c y C a k e s h a s o v e r 1 ,0 0 0 c l i e n ts a yea r. 202 3 is already being booked, a n d we d d i n g s a re ge t t i n g b i g ge r, s h e says.

“If I was an artist first, I wo u l d h a ve c a ve d u n d e r t h a t k i n d of p ress u re,” s h e sa ys.

While Kitchens has a tea m of fo u r ba ke rs, i t st i l l isn’t enough.

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b r i d es i s n ’t ea sy, b u t i t i s rewa rd i n g . “ I t ’s a n e m o t i o n a l p u r c h a se. I f yo u ’ re n o t t u n e d i n to h ow m u c h st ress t h e c l i e n t fe e l s, yo u ’ re n o t goi n g to reso n a te,” K i tc h e n s says. “If I could just sell and connect with my brides and my vendor teams — that is more fun for me than actually making a c a ke — a n d I l ove m a k i n g c a k e s , s o t h a t ’s s a y i n g a l o t .”

I n t h e p l a n n i n g p ro cess, K i tc h e n s t a kes i n s p i ra t i o n f ro m we d d i n g i n v i t a t i o n s , t h e d re s s a n d e ve r y t h i n g e l se t h a t co m es a l o n g w i t h couples’ big days. Once, she even replicated the d e s i g n f ro m a b r i d e ’s i m p o r te d I t a l i a n p l a tewa re. “ I t ’s j u st f u n to se e sto r i e s c o m e t o g e t h e r,” s h e says. “It doesn’t matter the b u d g e t . Ev e r yo n e ’s g o t a s t o r y. I l o v e h u m a n c o n n e c t i o n s. I n stea d of b e i n g the center of attention, I wa n t yo u to b e t h e ce n te r of a t te n t i o n .”

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hrista Sanford is a Dallasite, through and through.

She loves being at home in our neighborhood with her kids Jackson, Cason and Landry. But if she’s going to leave the house, it’s going to be for a trip to the Arboretum or NorthPark. She loves the cheese fries and ranch at Snuffer’s, ideally at the original Greenville Avenue location. Her youngest is named for beloved Tom Landry, who coached her father Guy Brown III, Super Bowl XII champion and a Dallas Cowboys linebacker for five seasons. Landry was very much part of her life growing up — he was there at her First Baptist Academy graduation.

After attending Rice University to study electrical engineering, she went to Southern Methodist Univeristy’s Dedman School of Law. She passed both the State Bar and the Patent and Trademark Bar. Sanford knew she wanted to be a patent attorney by the time she was 12. She loved watching The Cosby Show.

“I wanted to be just like Claire Huxtable, like she was a lawyer,” she says. “And my mom said, ‘Well, fine, you can be a lawyer, but you’re good at math and science, you need to be patent law.’ ” In 2004, she started at Baker Botts, an international law firm with more than 700 attorneys. In 2006, she joined the Junior League of Dallas so she could have a volunteer outlet.

While most associates bill as many hours as possible to reach partner level as quickly as possible, she scaled down her hours for several years after her second child. It took nine years to make partner in January 2014. A partner at the firm, she’s the deputy chair of the Intellectual Property department and serves on the executive committee.

Her career at the firm and the career in Junior League have mirrored each other. She has served as the new member chair, worked on research and underwriting, and during this past centennial year, she was the organization’s first Black president.

WHERE DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’VE MADE THE MOST IMPACT? That’s a hard question. I’m hopeful that I’m making an impact in everything. I will say that if I just take a snapshot, this year serving as president for the League during its centennial year has been truly impactful on, I think, the League as an organization, on the city and then also me personally. Not just the fact that it’s been a milestone year but the fact that I am the first African-American volunteer to serve in this role. It sends a message to the community about what we stand for and where we are moving as an organization. It sent a message to our volunteers that, regardless of who you are, what your background is, you can also make a huge impact in this organization on our community.

IS THERE A LEGAL CASE YOU’VE WORKED ON THAT WAS IMPACTFUL ON YOU?

When you work with these small companies, they come up with this idea, and you help them put their idea into words and follow this patent application. They’re just starting out.

They don’t necessarily have a ton of revenue. The product hasn’t really launched yet, but you’re able to create an asset for them. That is so fun because of the excitement they have when they find out the patent office is going to grant them this patent.

IS THERE A CASE THAT INCREASED YOUR CONFIDENCE? I had an opportunity to participate in a hearing. I remember this, because I was not expecting to participate in the hearing.

And the partner, as we were on a plane, said: “Hey, I want you to do this argument.” And I hadn’t told anyone yet, but I was pregnant at the time with my third child, I was incredibly sick.

And I was like: “OK, I guess I’ll do it” since I prepared that entire night. We had been in the hearing for six hours. And I get up and nail the argument. It was a very fulfilling moment.

I was still an associate at the firm. That really gave me a lot of confidence. That was one time where I was like: “OK, maybe I can do this. I can figure this out.”

WHAT’S IT LIKE SEEING DALLAS CHANGE? Just even looking back at the past 18 years since I’ve started practice, it’s been incredible to see the change. It’s nice to see how Dallas is growing — how we are bringing in more people from just different parts of the country and really expanding.

You know, Dallas is special. I like seeing how other people are seeing how special Dallas is.

WHAT’S A PIECE OF ADVICE YOU GIVE YOUR CHILDREN? I tell them consistently to work hard. I tell people sometimes that “I’m not always the smartest person in the room, but I’ve worked the hardest.” And that is one thing that I tell them always to do. And two is to smile and be kind to others.

Because this is such a small world, you just do not know how you may encounter someone else.

WHAT IS A PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’D GIVE SOMEONE STARTING A LEGAL CAREER, ESPECIALLY AT A BIG FIRM? Be open to learning. You need to learn so many different things and learn it from different people. Because when you absorb all the different types of ways to practice, that makes you better.

Soak it all up.

WHY IS PHILANTHROPY IMPORTANT TO DALLAS? When Dallasites find a need and we get behind it, we are going to make a difference. It’s ingrained in who we are as a city. And not just allow something to be status quo.

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Someone you could ask for advice or an amusing anecdote. The kind of woman that took unfavorable circumstances and made them favorable.

The kind of woman that learns the rules to rewrite them. The kind of woman that props doors of opportunity open and invites the rest of us in.

Meet the trailblazing women in our neighborhood.

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MARILLYN SEEBERGER When most people think of college g ra d u a t e s , t h e y t h i n k o f 2 2 - ye a ro l d s. M a r i l l y n Se e b e rge r, 8 5, g ra d uated from Southern Methodist U n i ve rs i ty i n M a y 2 0 2 2 .

Se e b e rge r sta r te d wo r k i n g i n t h e radio/TV production department at T h e B l o o m A ge n cy a s so o n a s s h e m ove d t o D a l l a s a t 2 3. O ve r t i m e, Seeberger rose through the ranks to b e co m e t h e f i rst wo m a n v i ce p resi d e n t o f b ro a d c a s t p ro d u c t i o n a t B l o o m . S h e p ro d u ce d co m m e rc i a l s fo r n a t i o n a l ca m pa i g n s, co r p o ra te shows and films, and she represente d t h e a ge n cy o n n a t i o n a l i n d u st r y co m m i t te es n e go t i a t i n g b roa d ca st t a l e n t co n t ra c t s fo r d e ca d e s. “ T h a t wa s k i n d of a n a t u ra l t h i n g f o r m e ,” S e e b e r g e r s a y s . “ I h a d a l o t o f b u i l t- i n c l i e n t s w h o c a m e to me because they knew what my a re a s o f ex p e r t i s e we re, a n d t h ey sought me out for that. And so I just sort of said ‘I guess I better s t a r t a b u s i n e ss.’ ” H e r p ro d u c t i o n c o m p a n y, Tu r t l e I s l a n d P i c t u re s , p ro d u c e d a n d d i re c te d co m m e rc i a l s, m u s i c v i d e os, c re a t e d T V s h o w s , a n d p ro d u c e d corporate and nonprofit videos.

S h e ra n t h e b u s i n e ss fo r 1 3 ye a rs u n t i l s h e re t i re d .

But Seeberger didn’t just work i n t h e D a l l a s p ro d u c t i o n i n d u s t r y, s h e m o l d e d i t . S h e ’s c re d i te d w i t h being the first woman president for n e a r l y e ve r y f i l m a n d p ro d u c t i o n p rofess i o n a l o rga n i za t i o n i n Da l l a s ­— including the Southwest Chapter of t h e A sso c i a t i o n o f I n d e p e n d e n t Co m m e rc i a l Pro d u ce rs, t h e Da l l a s

Communications Council, and Wome n i n F i l m Da l l a s. S h e a l so se r ve d o n t h e a d v i s o r y b o a rd fo r t h e K D Co n se r va to r y a n d i s a g ra d u a te of Lea d e rs h i p Texa s.

Af te r re t i r i n g , s h e d i d so m e w r i ting for the Saint Michael Episcopa l C h u rc h Fa r m e rs M a r ke t , w h i c h e n c o u ra ge d h e r t o p u rs u e w r i t i n g professionally. She enrolled in com munity college nearly 20 years after s h e q u i t wo r k i n g . “ I j u st t h o u g h t , fo r t h e rest of my l i fe I d o n ’ t w a n t t o b e j u s t s i t t i n g a n d ro c k i n g ,” Se e b e rge r says. “ I d o everything with purpose. I don’t like l i fe to j u st h a p p e n to m e.”

S h e t ra n sfe r re d to S M U i n J a n u ary 2020. The pandemic caused one of h e r b i g gest c h a l l e n ges b e ca u se s h e h a d to f i g u re o u t h ow to d o h e r assignments using her smartphone ca m e ra a n d l a p to p w i t h o u t h av i n g so m e o n e n ea r by to h e l p. “ I t w a s s c a r y,” S e e b e r g e r s a y s . “ B u t yo u h a ve t o h u m b l e yo u rs e l f a n d s a y ‘ I d o n ’ t k n o w a n y t h i n g ,’ t h e n l o o k fo r a way to f i n d h e l p.”

D u r i n g h e r f i n a l ye a r o f c o l l e ge, S e e b e r g e r p ro d u c e d a s h o r t f i l m f o r h e r s e n i o r p ro j e c t , w h i c h s h e a i m s to ge t i n to f i l m fest i va l s a n d make connections to write more sc re e n p l ays. “ M y m o t h e r i n s p i re d m e w h e n I wa s yo u n g , a n d d i d n ’t h ave a nyo n e to p l ay w i t h , b e ca u se s h e ’d a l ways say ‘What can we do that is going to make us feel good today,’” Seeberge r says. “ I f I ge t t h a t d o n e, t h e n i t i n s p i res m e to d o so m e t h i n g e l se.”

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CHAR LOVETT SUTHERLIN Char Lovett Sutherlin and her sister, Colleen Lovett, began singing on stage a t 2 a n d 3 ye a r s o l d . C o m i n g f ro m a musical family, the pair grew up around their dad’s band’s all-night jam sessions together as a family. As teens, they sang on WFAA and WRR before being signed to I m p e r i a l Re co rd s a n d re co rd i n g 10 songs written by their late grandmother, fa t h er a nd Co l l e e n. “ I t h ought eve ryo ne wa s havi ng jam s e s s i o n s a l l n i g h t a t t h e i r h o u s e ,” S u t h e r l i n says.

A s o l d e r t e e n a g e r s , t h e t w o b e ga n singing with the Teddy Phillips Orchestra and appearing with the band on The Te d d y P h i l l i ps Show o n A BC. Afte r the show ended, Sutherlin and Lovette split u p a n d sta rte d t he i r so l o ca re e rs.

Sutherlin started playing at the C i p a n g o C l u b w h e n s h e w a s 1 9. T h e p r i va t e c l u b w a s o n e o f D a l l a s ’ m o s t popular spots for mixed drinks, dancing, entertainment and gambling. Sutherlin re c a l l s o n e eve n i n g t h a t J o h n Wa y n e c a m e t o t h e c l u b, b u t h e w a s d e n i e d entry because he wasn’t with a member.

He came back the next night with a me mb er.

“At t h e e n d of t h e eve n i n g , h i m a n d C h i l l Wi l l s go t i nto a mo ck fi ght o n the dance floor, just to be funny, you know,” Sutherlin says. “One of them landed up on the band stand and knocked the whole drum set down. John walks up and just started pulling out the money, so he ( t h e d ru m me r) wa s ha ppy wi t h t hat.”

Fo r t h e n e x t 1 4 y e a r s , S u t h e r l i n bounced around the United States

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re co rd i n g two a l b u m s a n d h i t t i n g t h e top spots for one-nighters and location jobs, including the Shelburne Hotel; Atlantic City Pump Room; Chicago; Lago Marand Thunder bird, Palm S pr in gs.

Ev e n t u a l l y, S u t h e r l i n g o t h e r o w n group together and became the house b a n d a t C h a t e a u b r i a n d re s t a u ra n t i n Da l l a s. S h e p l aye d t h e re a n d i n o t h e r clubs th rou g hout th e ’70s, an d it was there that she met her husband, Bryan.

S u t h e r l i n re c a l l s t h a t s h e ’d s e e h i m every night supporting her at whatever club sh e’d play at.

“When we got married, he never came to th e clu bs. He was h om e takin g care o f m y k i d s . A n d I w a s l i k e , ‘ W h a t ’s w rong w ith th is picture?’ I need to be there,” Sutherlin says. “Oh, I wanted to b e h o m e. So I q u i t a n d I go t i n to rea l esta te.”

Sutherlin worked as a real estate agent since the ’80s and says she had a successful career until (mostly) retiring r e c e n t l y. S h e s a y s t h e i n d u s t r y h a s changed over the years, from having to carry books full of listings and picking up physical keys to each house to being able to do it all w ith an app.

N ow that she has retired, she spends most of her free time with the Preston H o l l ow Wo m e n ’s C l u b, w h e re s h e h a s held several positions and participates in philanthropy, mahjong, Bunco and two book clubs.

“I couldn’t say enough good things about that club,” Char says. “There’s something you could do every day and every night of your life, and it is just am a z i ng .”

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MARY GRACE EUBANK Almost every child in America has enjoyed Mary Grace Eubank’s work, f ro m Sesa m e S t re e t a n d B a r n ey to F i s h e r- Pr i c e a n d R a n d o m H o u se.

After graduating from SMU in 1966, Eubank began working for The Draw i n g B oa rd , w h e re s h e h a d t h e o p p o r t u n i ty to b e o n e of t h e a r t i sts u s i n g t h e Se sa m e S t re e t- l i ce n se d characters on greeting cards. It wa s t h e re w h e re s h e to o k o n m a j o r clients, met art directors and event u a l l y m e t J i m H e n so n , c re a t o r of t h e M u p p e t s.

“It just absolutely was being at t h e r i g h t p l a c e a t t h e r i g h t t i m e,” s h e says. “A n d I ’ m ve r y, ve r y g ra te ful.“ Af te r s h i f t i n g to f re e l a n c i n g , Eu b a n k we n t t o t h e N e w Yo r k S t a t i o n e r y S h o w t o m e e t t h e a r t d i re c to rs f ro m t h e C h i l d re n ’s Te l ev i s i o n Wo r k s h o p. C o i n c i d e n t a l l y, o n e o f Sesa m e S t re e t ’s i l l u st ra to rs b ro ke his hand and was unable to sign autographs, so though Eubank had not of f i c i a l l y d o n e a ny wo r k fo r t h e m , she spent the day autographing S es a m e S t re e t m a t e r i a l s.

This was the beginning of her long ca re e r a s a n i l l u st ra to r fo r m a ny of the top children’s brands, including the Children’s Television Workshop, T h e M u p p e ts, Sesa m e S t re e t , H a s b ro, F i s h e r- Pr i ce, R a n d o m H o u se, Mattel and more. But one character would not be the same without her: B a r n ey.

Eubank says that for the first Barney book, Just Imagine, she was

t a s ke d w i t h b e i n g t h e f i rst p e rso n t o i l l u s t r a t e t h e p u r p l e d i n o s a u r.

Af te r wo r k i n g w i t h o t h e r a r t i sts to c rea te B a r n ey ’s sty l e b o o k , s h e p u t a little bit of her own flair on the b o o k : h e r d o g , C l a n cy.

An avid dog mom of many Cavalier K i n g C h a r l es S pa n i e l s, C l a n cy wa s o n e of m a ny t h a t h ave g ra ce d t h e Eubank home. And that imprint was left on that first book, which Eubank of te n s i g n e d w i t h t h e wo rd s “ F i n d C l a n c y ” t o e n c o u r a g e c h i l d re n t o figure out where on each page she’d st ra te g i ca l l y p l a ce d t h e l ov i n g p e t . “ I t ’s l i ke m y ow n ve rs i o n o f W h e re ’s Wa l d o,” s h e says.

On ce co r p o ra te i l l u st ra t i o n s b e ca m e m o re c h a l l e n g i n g t h a n i t wa s worth, Eubank partnered with writer Mary Hollingsworth. The pair did 16 b o o ks to ge t h e r.

“I’m very very grateful,” she says.

“But then I finally got burnt out with licensed characters, something I ca l l t h e ‘ B i g B i rd B u r n o u t .’ ” So s h e q u i t i l l u st ra t i n g c h i l d re n ’s m a te r i a l s a n d st a r te d pa i n t i n g . So f a r, s h e h a s h a d s h o w s i n D a l l a s a n d C o l o ra d o, w h e re s h e a n d h e r h u s ba n d h ave a se co n d h o m e. “ I t ’s j u st m o re f u n to m e. W h a teve r c o l o r I wa n t , a n d I c a n m a ke a l o t of t h e t h i n gs t h a t I d o fo r d e s i g n e r s ,” E u b a n k s a y s . “A n d s o i f t h ey ca l l m e a n d say we ’ re l o o k i n g for a painting for a teenager’s room o r a c h i l d ’s r o o m , i t ’s a p i e c e o f c a ke fo r m e. B e c a u s e t h a t ’s w h a t I l i ke to d o.”

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PAMELA METZGER’S INTERESTin social justice started with her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, where she studied feminist theory and created a guide with chapters that are still used to teach the theory. Afterward, she got her J.D. from New York University School of Law and later served in New York as a federal defender and a visiting law professor at Washington and Lee University.

It was there that Metzger directed the Alderson Legal Clinic for Women in Prison.

“When I first started out as a young lawyer, there would be days when I would be the only woman in court as a lawyer… People would assume I was the clerk or secretary and nevermind mansplaining, you just couldn’t get a word in,” she says.

However, that has changed drastically. “ O n e t h i n g w o m e n h av e brought into the profession coming in as a minority of the participants has been to say, ‘Hey, we need to pay more attention to other things besides just trials and who can power down the podium the loudest,’” she says. “We need to think about the social conditions that people are coming from and what their life experiences are like.”

In 2001, Metzger moved to New Orleans, where she taught at Tulane University School of Law for 16 years. During this time, she looked at these social conditions as she directed Tulane’s Criminal Litigation Clinic and made headlines with her work helping defendants left incarcerated without representation after Hurricane Katrina. It was later portrayed in the HBO series Treme.

Metzger brought her experience and passion for justice to SMU in 2017 to run the Deason Family Criminal Justice Reform Center, the brainchild of Preston Hollow neighbor Doug Deason.

Students in the center conduct independent research and advocate to reform the criminal legal system in the delivery of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, STAR systems (Small, Tribal and Rural criminal systems) and the way prosecutors make their screening and charging decisions.

“I’ve always had a thing about underdogs, so I’ve al-

ways been very, very interested in questions about how you make afight fair,” Metzger says.

In the South, much of the criminal legal system was built to perpetuate slavery and Jim Crow, so it is harder to separate the work of social justice and criminal justice. The Deason Center has made strides in recent years with research on the effects of non-prosecution policies for low-level marijuana offenses. Specifically, the students are determining whether these policies produce a system where Black and non-Black people are equally likely to face a citation or arrest for marijuana possession.

One of these research projects examined how the 2019 non-prosec ution polic y for low-level marijuana charges affected racial disparity in marijuana referrals. District Attorney Learning and Leadership through Application of Science (DALLAS) initiative partners with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, “We’re also digging into a larger project about how we’re going to assist them (the district attorney’s office) in evaluating the process that they go through from when an arrest is made to when the grand jury,” Metzger says.

One from this project — “Fewer, Not Fairer: Changes in Racial Disparity Police Referrals for Marijuana Prosecution in Dallas County 2018-2019” — found that police sent 31% fewer marijuana possession cases to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2019 than 2018, yet the racial disparity in marijuana referrals was 10% worse.

After this report and others, which established the number of charges being imposed on marijuana offenders of cases the District Attorney’s office won’t prosecute, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia ordered officers to stop charging people caught with small amounts.

“The longer I spent thinking about that, the more it just kind of stuck with me that there’s nothing in the Constitution that says you have to prosecute people,” she says. “But there is something in the Constitution that says if you are going to prosecute them, you have to give them a fair shot.”

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How one Hockaday student is teaching about the bees and robots Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AYLA SUMMERS applied on a whim for the Honeybee Queen program two years ago. Summers didn’t know much about bees. Nevertheless, she was accepted into the Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Association program, which provides scholarships to promote honeybee education. That made Summers, a rising senior and a soccer player at The Hockaday School, a Honeybee Princess of Collin County.

“When I got it, I was like, ‘I guess I’m interested in this now.’ And it sort of took off from there,” she says.

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Her position involves giving presentations about bees, often with a live beehive, at schools, chamber meetings and the like. She’s now a beekeeper and maintains two hives in her backyard.

“So initially, they (her parents) weren’t that fond of it. But then they sort of grew to like it,” she says. “And now because we get so much honey, they’re completely enthusiastic about it.”

As part of her social impact class, she partnered with Joppy Momma’s Farms in South Dallas to install hives.

The farm, which grows vegetables and raises chickens in the food-desert community, wants to add honeybees as another food and revenue source.

“I’m working on creating education around it in that area so that hopefully, we can expand to get more hives and eventually have a full-blown honey company,” she says.

When Summers isn’t hiving, she’s running an all girls-robotics club at Joe May Elementary School. The weekly, group-based program helps introduce children to STEM. During the pandemic, Summers helped drop off project kits and lead virtual workshops.

“Robotics was not something I was fully interested in in middle school, but it was just something I sort of got into. And then I realized that I actually liked it and really enjoyed the problem-solving aspect of it,” she says. “If you get that exposure early on, you’re more likely to pursue it later since it’s harder to get into it later on.”

Summer is planning on studying STEM in college. She’ll ​​ keep beekeeping, and the hives at her home are staying, even when she’s no longer the Bee Princess of Collin County.

“I definitely think my parents, now that they’re more on board with it, are going to maintain the hives when I go off to college,” she says.

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By AMY W. MOORE

Pick a side W h a t d o yo u wa n t yo u r a n cest r y to b e ?

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n 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed in response to the “history of repeated injuries and usurpations” by Great Britain that interfered with the moral imperative “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

Freedom to pursue unalienable rights did not come that day. Rather, the signers voiced their intention to advance a just community despite the resistance of systems that wanted to remain the same.

As I considered this time of revolution, I began wondering how we choose to engage voices that participate in the evolution of faith and culture. So I turned to the legacies of ancestors from faith traditions and society.

Moses faced resistance as he challenged the abuse of power that enslaved people and raised his voice to set them free.

Jesus confronted the institutions of religion that abandoned the commandment of God in favor of human traditions and the Roman Empire that exerted its power over people.

Moving through the centuries, Galileo is remembered for his scientific discovery of the sun as the center of the revolving earth. His discovery led to his being tried and convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisition.

History credits Martin Luther for igniting a period of time known as the Reformation when his 95 Theses challenged church practices. Despite his faithful contributions to change, his statements contributed to his excommunication from the Catholic Church.

More recent times echo the resilient voices of Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, who were countercultural as abolitionist suffragettes.

Maybe you are familiar with the legacy

of journalist and community organizer Anne McCarty Braden, who was arrested for defying racist real estate practices.

And although a national holiday honors Martin Luther King, he was among many persecuted for their commitment to the advancement of Civil Rights.

These are a few ancestors who participated in the evolution of faith and culture.

Amid voices that resisted change and cried heresy, today they are revered for their contribution that moved community forward.

We are still reaching toward the moral imperative set before us to fulfill self-evident, unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

This summer the City Council of Dallas will consider adopting the Racial Equity Plan (REP) developed in partnership with community through the Office of Equity and Inclusion. The plan seeks to bridge the gap of inequity maintained by systems institutionalized decades ago and advance equity for all to live into our best selves.

Voices contributing to the REP challenge systems that cause repeated injuries that interfere with the pursuit of unalienable rights and marginalize neighbors of our city.

As our ancestors defied prevailing systems of their times, I wonder which side of ancestry we will be known for?

Will we choose to participate in the evolution of faith and culture, or bear the legacy of ancestors that condemned and crucified those outspoken on behalf of beloved community?

What kind of ancestor shall we choose to be?

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