LEIGH OWEN

Leigh Owen is a connector. She is passionate about matching people with other people, organizations, and resources. She is a past president of the Federation of Houston Professional Women, Houston Focus on Concerns for Women, and the FHPW Educational Foundation. She served 20 years on the UH Friends of Women’s Studies board. Leigh is honored to be a member of the UH Libraries Dean’s Cabinet and is a zealous supporter the UH Rare Books Collections.

Leigh is a member of the Houston Book Arts Guild, Houston Calligraphy Guild, and the Houston Visual Journalers. She is a lifetime member of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts and chaired their advisory board. She loves collage, journals daily, and writes personal essays and haiku.

She is a member of the Lady Washington chapter, the largest DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) chapter in the world. Her genealogy studies revealed that her great, great, great uncle William E. Summers fought and died at the Alamo.

A graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, her first real job was in book publishing and it became her lifelong career. Leigh has three decades of book publishing and marketing experience. She began by designing books and handling their production and printing for Gulf Publishing Company then focused on marketing books and educational training for Vickie Milazzo Institute.

Leigh and Tim, both native Texans, live in a brick bungalow in the Houston Heights. Avid birders, they love traveling Texas back roads. Their marriage has been celebrated together at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio for 42 years in an unbroken line.

Leigh is often told, “You know things!”