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Rice Business Board Fellows

Matching Rice MBAs with Houston-Area Nonprofits

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Founded by Rice MBA students and staff in 2008, Rice Business Board Fellows is a year-long experiential learning program that matches talented, energetic, and committed Rice MBA students as fellows to local nonprofit boards to serve as non-voting board members.

Both students and organizations benefit from the Board Fellows program:

  • Organizations can deploy a Rice MBA student’s ideas and energy to solve a problem or execute a project with the possibility of cultivating a future board member. MBA candidates learn valuable leadership skills from community leaders and gain experience in the nonprofit sector from “real live” nonprofit management and governance.
  • Students and organizations must apply in order to participate in the program. Once they are chosen, the board fellows and organizations are then matched according to the student’s skills and background and the organization’s needs. Student's must be in their first year in a Rice Business MBA program to apply for Board Fellows. The student’s personal interest in an area of service provided by the nonprofit is also considered.

Questions? Contact boardfellows@rice.edu

Board Fellows 2025-2026

OrganizationStudent
Houston Angel NetworkAltovely Uriostegui
Apollo Chamber PlayersSree Harsha Nutulapati
Musiqa HoustonOr Shaham
Literacy NowJacquelyn Arroyo
The Nehemiah CenterBlake Howell
SEARCH HomelessTyler Hilliard
American Red Cross Houston Marcelo Bini
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Natalie Hinkley
Chinquapin Prep SchoolKapreece Bowman
STEM∙E Youth CareerEthan Dong
ACE MentorAnastacia Castro
Cullinan Park ConservancySmitha Ajjampur
Bayou Land ConservancyLeighton Douglass
SER JobsRohan Agnihotri
Children at RiskVijay Bhalani
Momentum EducationPedro Ott Castillo
Friends of Mercer Botanic GardensShanker Nair
Texas Fire Fighters HomeAaron Garcia
Medical BridgesSameera Vedantam
SIRE TherapeuticEddie Saa
YMCA of Greater HoustonCherrice Browne
Institute of Hispanic CultureFabian Gomez
The Women's HomeBlair Walker
The Monarch SchoolStephanie Schmidt
HEART Program Emily Smith
Family Point ResourcesShaun Reghabi
Child AdvocatesPatrick Myers
The RoseChikaneme Orioha
Girls Inc. Sarah Grant
Target HungerNick Chipponeri
Advocates for Immigrant SurvKirsi Zhou
Nature Discovery CenterDietrich Gaitz
Child Care Council of HoustonEmily Wells
Rice Engineering AlumniAarushi Gupta
League of Women VotersMadeline Moore
Houston Chamber ChoirAlexis Allen
Texas Prader-Willi AssociationTheresa Sibi
Gigi's Playhouse - HoustonMadeleine Allocco
OnPurpose Enrichment, Inc.Nicole Price
Houston ZooJohn Hill
Capital IdeaMark Petrie
Palmer Drug Abuse ProgramJonah Navarrete
Super Girl ShineGiza Baisakalova
Faithful Paws Pet TherapyCaitlin Fabian

 

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