Texan. Master of disaster. Crisis leader. Former appointee of @POTUS46Archive at @SBAGov helping our nation recover from disasters and be more resilient.
Thanks to everyone who joined Hagerty’s Francisco Sanchez at Houston Energy & Climate Week! We are inspired by the ideas and collaboration shared last week and look forward to continuing to support sustainable, resilient energy solutions. @climateweekhou@F_SanchezJr#HECW2025
We have the opportunity to re-imagine our legacy industries, with boundless economic opportunity that also tackles the inevitable risk ahead.
We have the workforce.
We have the infrastructure.
We have the know-how.
But if we want it built here, we must invest here.
Honored to close out Houston Energy and Climate Week at a fireside chat with @CajunAngela and Lindsay Roe.
The title of “energy capital of the world” is up for grabs. Houston’s energy transition isn’t just inevitable – it’s urgent.
The first pet reunited with its owner was a chicken named Lucy. A wedding cut short by was eventually held on the floor of the eighth wonder of the world, the bride walked down the aisle by boxing champion Evander Holyfield. Amid sorrow and devastation, was hope and resilience.
Twenty years ago today, Harris County opened the Astrodome to #Katrina evacuees.
In the wee morning hours of Wednesday, August 31st, then County Judge Robert Eckels answered the call. Our neighbors would be coming. We were in the office before sunrise to get ready.
For the Astrodome complex itself, 65,000 made it their first stop in Houston. 17,000 in the Dome proper, 8,000 in Reliant Center, 2,000 in the Arena, and another 38,000 transferred to other locations.
Welcomed by 60,0003 volunteers.
🗓️📺☕️ See you Sunday morning for conversations @DrLauraMurillo + @HispanicHouston.
Grateful for the kind welcome home from the chamber and to hear more from the kind of stellar lineup only the chamber can pull together.
Houston can be both a place of deep risk and boundless opportunity. If Houston is determined to remain an essential region, it must strive in equal measure to be the most resilient city.”
“We have staked our lives, livelihoods, and hopes for the future in a prime hurricane landing zone that averages a presidentially declared disaster every nine months.
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In the face of that, Houston is an essential region that fuels the nation and powers the world.
If we are honest about who and where we are, and most importantly if we act accordingly, we can can also meet the moments to come.
We’re beyond consumers. I’m proud to have been a part of the Biden Administration’s success to double lending to Hispanic entrepreneurs. While we unleashed historic capital, organizations like the chamber are unleashing potential.
¡Sí Se Puede!
@DrLauraMurillo + @HispanicHouston mean business. Congrats on a stellar The State of Hispanics Data Summit.
Latinos in Houston contributed $139.5 billion (25%) to the local economy in 2021. That GDP is as large as the entire economy of the state of Arkansas.