About Juliet

Juliet is the chief workforce officer, leading the Gulf Coast Workforce Solutions, the Houston-Galveston Area Agency on Aging, and Aging and Disability Resource Center programs. She also serves as executive director of the Gulf Coast Workforce Board. Before joining H-GAC, Juliet served as the elected trustee of District VII for the Houston I.S.D. School Board and held several officer positions, including board president.

She also was associate director for the Richard Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity in Education at Rice University, where she managed programs to empower underrepresented minorities and women to succeed in STEM fields. Juliet also served as Houston’s first director of education for Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Office of Education, where she developed a systemwide, collaborative approach to education and workforce issues from cradle to career that helped launch numerous city-wide programs, including Hire Houston Youth, “Be Well, Be Connected,” and Out2LearnHOU.