Opening Keynote Speaker

Art Rascon

Reporter and News Anchor, KTRK, ABC-13

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Emmy award winning Reporter and Anchor Art Rascon joined KTRK-TV's 13 Eyewitness News in September 1998 to serve as anchor of the five o'clock news. Since joining ABC-13, Rascon has covered such major events as the Iraq war, reporting from Baghdad, the Balkan wars, conflicts in the Middle East and Central America, the U.S. Presidential elections, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., and Virginia Tech, site of the nation's deadliest campus shooting. He has also covered natural disasters throughout the world, reporting from Indonesia after the Tsunami. He comes to Houston from the CBS Network where he was a correspondent for THE EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER, where he reported Haiti's civil unrest, Mexico's guerilla wars, Peru's hostage standoff, Cuba's downing of U.S. planes, TWA and other airline disasters, various school shootings, Civil conflicts in Central America, hurricanes throughout the Caribbean and U-S, the Oklahoma City bombing, and a host of other international stories. From '89 to '94, Rascon was a reporter at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, covering such notable stories as the O.J. Simpson case, the Rodney King beating trial, the L.A. riots, the Branch Davidian stand-off, as well as earthquakes, fires and floods. Earlier, Rascon worked as a producer, reporter and anchor at several cities, including San Antonio, El Paso, and Abilene and Salt Lake City. Rascon has reported from more than 50 countries, five continents, and nearly every state in the Union. He has been nominated for 25 Emmys and has won 19. He's received more than three dozen other local and national reporting awards, including two prestigious Edward R. Murrow awards, three National Association of Hispanic Journalists' awards, the International Rotary Club award, two Headliner Awards for Best Documentary, the RTNDA Award for continuous coverage, and 15 Associated Press Reporting awards. He is also the recipient of more than a dozen outstanding reporting awards from Press Clubs in Los Angeles and Houston. The National Hispanic Business Magazine also named Rascon one of the '100 Most Influential Hispanics in America'. Rascon is a popular motivational speaker, an active participant and board member of various Houston charity groups, and a former Vice-President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and board member of The Radio Television News Directors Association. Rascon was born in El Paso, Texas, reared in Denver, Colorado, and a graduate of Brigham Young University with a Degree in Communications-Journalism. He also studied Humanities and European Politics in Madrid, Spain. He and his wife, Patti, have six children

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