Carlos Wallace

Lone Star College–University Park is one of two university centers in the Lone Star College System located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.

The campus serves northwest Harris County. The center opened its doors in January 2010 with limited degree programs and courses offered by the University of Houston (UH) and the University of Houston–Downtown (UHD), both of which are separate and distinct degree-granting institutions. The campus includes a conference center, which will be used for Lone Star Corporate College training and community meetings a 900-seat, fully equipped cafeteria and a fitness center.

In 2018, the University Park campus opened its new $15.4 million Center for Science & Innovation. It was officially dedicated on May 2, 2018. The building is a three-story, 50,000 square feet with 12 science labs, and indoor 3D geology teaching wall, and third floor observation deck, and a "Science HotSpot" Learning Commons.

In 2018, the campus began work on a new $23.7 million building for the performing and visual arts, to be opened in 2019.

The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART) a North American labor union headquartered in Washington, D. C., was chartered by the AFL-CIO in 2013. The product of a merger between the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association (SMWIA) and the United Transportation Union (UTU), SMART represents over 210,000 sheet metal workers, service technicians, bus operators, engineers, conductors, sign workers, welders, and production employees, among others, throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. The Transportation Division (which has offices in Washington, D.C. and North Olmsted, Ohio) represents employees on Class I railroad, Amtrak, and regional and short line railroads bus and mass transit employees on some 45 transit systems and airline pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers and other airport personnel. The Division's 500 local unions organize conductors, brakemen, switchmen, ground service personnel, locomotive engineers, hostlers, and railroad yardmasters, as well as bus drivers and mechanics.

More Too Life was established in 2006 by Dr. Brooke Parker-Bello. It is also an Open Doors Outreach Network Provider offering programs and resources that educate and empower survivors of human trafficking to become champions along with at-risk youth, community and offenders while contributing of the reduction of the demand for human trafficking with innovative prevention methods.

The More Too Life Foundation has offices in Miami, Sarasota, Hillsborough and St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Florida in partnership with Glory House of Miami, Children's Home Network of Tampa, and the Florida Dream Center of St. Petersburg.

“VR-Eval” (Short for Virtual Reality Evaluations) is a cognitive evaluation method which uses virtual reality technology to provide kids and victims of human trafficking, sexual exploitation and sexual violence with a safe way to connect and be interviewed by case workers, therapists, first response professionals, mentors, social workers, advocates and mentors who work with NGOs, the government and law enforcement to bring sex traffickers to justice. This is for the first 2-3 interviews to breakdown initial barriers, judgements, internal bias allowing for freedom of expression via avatar and special environments.

The initiative came to life thanks to the brilliant partnership of Dr. Brook Parker Bello and Chance Glasco, co-creator of "Call of Duty" video-game franchise and co-founder of Doghead Simulations, the technical and creative assistance from filmmaker Danny Tolbert and Full Sail University, and the marketing and consulting genius of author/actor/youth advocate and Google Next Gen colleague Carlos Wallace.