Cynthia Nunes Colbert
President and Chief Executive Officer
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Galveston‐Houston
Houston, Texas
Colbert is president and CEO of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, overseeing assistance to individuals in southeast Texas by providing food, clothing, shelter and support services.
She served for six years as vice president of community resources at United Way Capital Area‐Austin and was previously executive director of Catholic Charities in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas.
Colbert serves on the boards of the Emergency Food and Shelter Grant Program, United Way of Greater Houston, Better Business Bureau Education Foundation, Network of Behavioral Health and Catholic Charities USA.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the master’s program in Nonprofit Management at the University of Houston-Downtown and is a senior fellow at the American Leadership Forum.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Sacramento and a master’s degree in social welfare, planning and administration from the University of California, Berkeley.