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PUBLISHER & CEO Val Thompson 30 - People Global HaPPiness by Crissy Butts, HaPPiness Coach ...................... Houston’s Great Communicator: Mayor Sylvester Turner Interview by: Ryan Foley ...................... The Honorable Sultan bin Abdullah Al-Angari Interview by Katia Hadjiyska ...................... Aida Araissi, Bilateral US-ARAB Chamber’s Woman of Two Cultures Interview by Sonia Guimbellot Miscellaneous An Enchanted Encounter with a Swallowtail by T. Jenese Thompson Do YOU think you can change the world? by Sonia Guimbellot ASSOC. PUBLISHER Vicky Pink CREATIVE DIRECTOR Craig L.Amos MANAGING EDITOR Anita Long DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Sonia Guimbellot ACCOUNT EXCECUTIVE Khorey Smith DIRECTOR OF SALES Jared Jinkerson PHOTOGRAPHERS Vicky Pink Heidi Powell Pamela Ashley CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Deanea Leflore Anita Long Ellen Goldberg Rachel Varghese Katia Hadjiyska Sonia Guimbellot Vicky Pink T.Jeneses Thompson Crissy Butts Miao Guo Smith Ryan Foley Jared Jinkerson ..................... Cover Photo Credit: Vicky Pink Copyright © 2016 International Focus Magazine. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems. IF logo is protected through copyright registration in the United States. We welcome your comments and suggestions, please send to: [email protected]. Some of the articles in this book may appear on iFMagazine.net iF Magazine | www.iFMagazine.net 5