07/10/2020 11:29:17 AMBrandon Mack, a University of Houston College of Education student and alumnus, knows higher education can be a powerful agent of change — on an individual and societal level. 
“Many of the courses I took throughout my educational career have fundamentally changed my way of thinking about this world and also how I approach my work,” Mack said. “I am who I am because of higher education.”
As an associate director of admission and coordinator of transfer admission for Rice University, he works to make the private school more accessible to students from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Outside the office, his passion for education and activism inspired him to sponsor Rice’s LGBTQ+ organization, Rice PRIDE, and become an organizer for the Houston chapter of Black Lives Matter.