JNIWL Advisory Council

Myra Crownover
Business Owner & Former State Representative (Denton)
Area of Leadership: Business/Politics and Public Policy

Myra Crownover is a businesswoman actively engaged in the banking, real estate, and energy sectors. Myra served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2000 to 2016. During her time as the State Representative from Denton, she was appointed chair of the Committee on Public Health, vice chair of the Calendars and Energy Resources Committee, and served as a lead negotiator for the House of Representatives on the Conference Committee on the Texas budget. Crownover holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Arts from Texas A&M University at College Station, both in professional education.

Maurine Dickey
Vice President, Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, Inc. (Dallas)
Area of Leadership: Business/Politics and Public Policy

Maurine Dickey served two four-year terms as a Dallas County Commissioner from 2005 to 2013. Prior to her election to the Dallas County Commissioners Court, Dickey served as the former chairman of the Parkland Hospital Board of Managers, and was the only county commissioner to have served on the Parkland Board. She serves as chair of the Barbecue, Boots, and Badges Foundation, was chair of the Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services, the Dallas County Child Welfare Board, and served on the County Juvenile Board. She was also a founding member of CPS Community Partners and The Rainbow Room in 1990. The Dickey family owns Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants, a franchised chain of 500 restaurants nationwide.

Carine M. Feyten, Ph.D.
Chancellor & President, Texas Woman’s University System

Since 2014, Carine M. Feyten, Ph.D. has served as chancellor of the Texas Woman’s University System and president of Texas Woman’s University, the nation’s largest university with a woman-focused mission. Spearheading the largest construction boom in the university’s history (nearly $500 million) and first-ever comprehensive campaign, she has more than tripled the endowment, launched many major initiatives such as the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Doswell School of Aeronautical Sciences focusing on preparing women pilots. Personally, she is deeply committed to amplifying the impact that emerges from TWU’s distinctive campus, where women comprise 90% of the student body. She has made strategic investments to extend the university’s mission to educating the whole person—mind and body. Her leadership fosters a supportive environment that prepares graduates to succeed in today’s complex global society. These efforts were recognized by the American Council on Education with the 2023 ACE/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation.

Shannon Mantaro
Executive Director and Chief Officer, the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership

Shannon Mantaro leads the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership at Texas Woman’s University as Executive Director and Chief Officer, where she has established transformative business programs and administered million-dollar grant initiatives supporting women entrepreneurs across Texas. Her earlier career includes serving as Executive Director of Colgate University’s economic development division, managing assets over $19 million, and directing marketing and operations for an upstate New York economic development corporation where she championed women’s entrepreneurial training. Mantaro holds a master’s degree in communications management from Syracuse University’s prestigious Newhouse School of Public Communications and completed a certificate in Women’s Leadership at Yale University.

Sara Madsen Miller
COO/Co-Owner, 1820 Productions (Dallas)
Area of Leadership: Business

As COO and co-owner of 1820 Productions, Sara Madsen Miller consults with business leaders on how to grow their business by increasing their brand and product awareness through digital marketing and paid media advertising. She is a results-driven business executive with more than 20 years of delivering revenue and successful outcomes by creating collaborative business strategies to help clients drive brand awareness. She also has served on the boards of the Cotton Bowl Classic Association, Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas Women’s Foundation, The Family Place, and the Dallas Assembly.

http://1820productions.com/

Neena Newberry
President, Newberry Executive Solutions (Dallas)
Area of Leadership: Business

Neena Newberry has spent more than 25 years advising and coaching business leaders in Fortune 500 companies. Her 12 years of experience as a management consultant span strategy development, operations improvement, and leadership development. In the last few years of her 14-year career at Deloitte, she was on Deloitte’s U.S. HR Executive Committee and led performance management and career planning for 34,000 U.S. Deloitte employees. In 2008, she launched her own company. She is an adjunct professor in executive education at the SMU Cox School of Business and serves on the faculty for the Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Newberry serves on the boards of the Dallas Children’s Theater and the Akola Project, in addition to serving on committees at United Way and the Dallas Women’s Foundation.

http://newberrycoaching.com/

Nancy Paup
Regent, Texas Woman’s University, Ex Officio Council Member (Fort Worth)
Area of Leadership: Business/History

Nancy Painter Paup manages and directs business, real estate and ranching interests in Texas. She received a gubernatorial appointment to the Board of Regents of Texas Woman’s University (TWU) and was elected Vice-Chair during her tenure. Nancy is an elected member of The Philosophical Society of Texas. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Executive Advisory Committee of The Handbook of Texas Women, Board of Directors for the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA), and co-founder of Nancy P. and Thaddeus E. Paup Lecture Series at TWU. Nancy has raised funds throughout Texas for the arts, higher education and historical preservation. Her academic degrees include master’s and bachelor’s degrees from TWU. Post-graduate work includes attending Dartmouth College, Harvard University, The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and receiving certifications in development, strategic leadership and private wealth management, respectively.

Trea Yip
CEO, TY Commercial Group (Dallas)
Area of Leadership: Business

Trea Yip formed her company in 1990 and currently serves as TY Commercial Group CEO. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles, and her master’s degree from Southern Methodist University. She currently holds a Texas Real Estate Broker License. Yip serves many notable organizations including Baylor Health Care Systems, the Portfolio Advisory Board of Texas Women Ventures, North Texas Public Broadcasting (KERA), and is the former chair of the Dallas Women’s Foundation.

https://www.tycommercial.com/