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2026 Speaker Luncheon with Alice Gonzalez Yates

  • January 13, 2026 11:30 AM

  • Morriss Hall at The Barnhill Center

    106 South Douglas Street
    Brenham, Texas 77833
Ticket Price $53.69-$526.76 Buy tickets now!
Description

The Barnhill Center is proud to present our first Speaker Series event for 2026 on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 with Alice Gonzalez Yates, CEO of the George & Barbara Bush Foundation. 

Alice Gonzalez Yates serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the George & Barbara Bush, where she leads efforts to preserve and promote the historic legacies of President & Mrs. Bush. With both public and private sector experience in South Dakota, Texas, Germany, Kansas, Florida and Virginia, Alice brings a unique perspective, leveraging excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build trust and loyalty amongst stakeholders.

Prior to joining the Bush Foundation, Alice led strategic initiatives at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government & Public Service Washington D.C. teaching site with the goal of ensuring donor success, elevating program relevance and increasing student opportunities through philanthropy. A highlight of Alice’s career in public service is being recognized as a “Yellow Rose of Texas” by the Texas Governor’s Office for positively impacting the state through service to military families.

Alice is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Development and a graduate of the University of West Florida with a Master of Public Administration degree.

In addition to professional and service work, Alice is most proud to be the wife of fellow Aggie and Retired Air Force Colonel Nick Yates and mother to Ry, Cord, and Cael.

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Individual tickets are $50 each and premium reserved tables for 8 are $500 each. 

Doors open at 11:00am.

Luncheon is served at 11:30am.

Seating is limited  and no tickets will be sold at the door. 

Ticket sales close at 5pm two days prior to each event date. 

Date & Time

Tue, Jan 13, 2026 11:30 AM

Venue Details

Morriss Hall at The Barnhill Center

106 South Douglas Street
Brenham, Texas 77833 Morriss Hall at The Barnhill Center
The Barnhill Center

Built-in 1925, in the grand architectural style of Beaux-Arts Classical Revival, the Simon Theatre provided a splendid setting for many theatrical performances, film screenings and ballroom dances. The James Simon family commissioned Houston architect Alfred C. Finn, whose career included designing a number of prominent Houston buildings as well as the San Jacinto Monument, to design the theatre for the community of Brenham. Today, after a meticulous million-plus dollar renovation, the glamour and grand style lives on for future generations in the newly named Barnhill Center at Historic Simon Theatre.


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