HSA promotes scholarship, fellowship and multicultural awareness, and represents the Honors Program on campus and in the community. Student leaders select speakers for campus presentations on general and professional topics and organize social and service events for Honors Program students.
HSA Opportunities
Community Service
One of the things that the Honors Student Association proudly volunteers and interacts with, year in and year out, is the great community of San Angelo.
Life with HSA
Connect with other HSA students through peer-led social events that create a strong sense of community within the program. Treasured memories and lasting friendships evolve from HSA events.
Intramural Fun
Students in HSA are active in on-campus intramural sports. This allows our students to spend time together competing against other on-campus teams in a variety of sports.
Travis Griffith currently serves as the Chief of Police for the San Angelo Police Department, a position he was elected to in June 2024. Throughout his career with the department, Travis has held a variety of leadership roles, including in the Public Information Section, Office of Professional Standards (Internal Affairs), Anti-Crime Unit, Patrol Division, and Criminal Investigations Division. He is a former member of the SAPD SWAT team and has served as a detective in the Special Operations Section, a patrol supervisor, and as a member of the Hostage Negotiation Team.
In addition to his law enforcement career, Travis has been the Executive Director of Crime Stoppers (501(c)(3)) for over four years and he continues to help with the program outside his role with the police department.
Travis discovered his passion for law enforcement at the age of 20, and he has been dedicated to the field ever since. He began his public service career as a volunteer firefighter at 17 in rural West Texas, later becoming an EMT before transitioning to law enforcement.
Outside of work, Travis is a devoted father to a daughter and a newborn son. He is married to Vanessa, a former elementary school teacher. Travis is also an active member of PaulAnn Baptist Church, where he serves as an elder.
Sept. 23, 2024 Yukio A. Kuniyuki III
Yuki is a recent transplant to San Angelo (2016) having lived most of his life overseas and around the country. Yuki’s father worked for the State Department as a foreign service officer, which led to his first 14 years being spent in Tanzania, Sweden and Singapore. Later, he finished high school in Zephyrhills, Fla., before attending the University of Michigan where he received his commission in 1998 as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Yuki holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mandarin, Chinese but also studied Japanese, French, Arabic and political science. He has a Master of Arts in Intelligence Studies from American Military University and attended the Military Intelligence Corps’ National Systems Development Program, and the United States Army’s Command and General Staff College.
Yuki entered the Army as an armor officer branch-detailed from the Military Intelligence (MI) Corps. During his 22-year career, he served at:
Fort Hood (now known as Fort Cavasos), Texas
Fort Huachuca, Arizona
Camp Casey, Korea
Fort Meade, Maryland
Torii Station, Okinawa
Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas
He deployed to Iraq on two occasions and to Afghanistan once. He held key positions as a:
Battalion Intelligence Officer
Military Intelligence Company Commander
Battalion and Brigade Operations Officer
Battalion and Brigade Executive Officer
Division Chief for Cyber and Electromagnetic Warfare
Senior Intelligence Officer in Kandahar
Battalion Commander
Deputy Brigade Commander
During his career, he spent over six years working in the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command where he trained military intelligence officers as well as initial entry signals intelligence and cyber warfare professionals.
In June 2021, Yuki became the sixth executive director for the San Angelo Performing Arts Center where he helped return the organization to normal operations in the wake of COVID while also working diligently to build relationships with other local arts organizations. Since taking the job, he has hosted over 80 shows and events per year to include everything from school to Broadway productions.
Yuki believes the arts are a vital part of our human experience. “They teach us that we have shared emotions, joys, trials and tribulations,” Yuki said. “Through art, we are connected in a way that transcends time, generations and cultures. The arts are truly a gateway to living a more meaningful and enriching life.”
Yuki’s wife, Karyn, is an accomplished artist and the director of the Emmanuel School of Fine Arts, a ministry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Together, they have three teenage boys: Andy, Erik and Emery.
Feb. 5, 2024 Barbara Rallo
The desire to paint in France was simmering, and a 1998 calendar of “The Most Beautiful Villages in Provence” was the catalyst to send Barbara Rallo to those same villages to sketch and paint “en plein air” annually for over 25 years now. Today, her sketches and paintings are an intimate connection to the rich architecture of Europe, the beautiful colors and scents of Provence, and the incredible friends and artists met in those yearly sojourns to France.
An accomplished watercolorist, one of Barbara’s French sketches won the 2016 June/July Sketchbook Award for the PleinAir Magazine Salon, and she was the winner of the 2014 Plein Air Easton Quick Draw “Best Non-Competition Artist” Award. Her work has also been accepted into national shows in Texas and Louisiana, and she has shown her paintings in the local Stribling Art Extravaganza since 2002.
Barbara is also the founder and coordinator/co-chair of EnPleinAirTEXAS, one of the premier plein air competitions in the U.S., hosted by the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. This extraordinary international juried competition celebrated its 10th successful year in San Angelo this past October. Barbara is an active participant in PASA (Plein Air San Angelo), an artists group she helped form 11 years ago, and a board member of the San Angelo Cultural Affairs Council. She served on the Texas Tech University System Public Arts Committee and has been a judge for several area painting competitions. Her first gallery show at Art Gallery Prudencia in San Antonio in the summer of 2023 generated successful sales and an invitation to stay as one of the artists in the gallery.
As a mentor, “encourager/cheerleader” and teacher, Barbara’s desire to help friends and strangers embrace their artistic passions keeps her engaged with people across the world.
Sept. 25, 2023 Charlotte Anderson
Charlotte Anderson is a native of Houston, where she worked in the oil and gas industry. She moved to West Texas in 1991, and in 1994, she and her husband developed a business model to open Angelo Burger Company in San Angelo.
After opening five successful stores over 17 years and earning the Chamber of Commerce Diversity Award and several “Best Burger” features, Charlotte joined the Walmart Corporation and Sam’s Club in 2011 and led the region in marketing and business development. She had the best membership profile in the Southwest Region and ranked in the top 1% of the company. She also led and trained associates in Abilene, Lubbock and the Dallas area.
Additionally, Charlotte has served the Children’s Miracle Network, San Angelo Convention and Visitors Bureau and Women’s Roundtable Event, and has been a guest speaker, leadership emcee and facilitator for numerous community and chamber events.
For the past three years, Charlotte has been the executive director of Keep San Angelo Beautiful (KSAB) and conservation manager for the City of San Angelo. KSAB is a Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) three-year Gold Star Affiliate and won the 2023 KTB Beautify Texas Award for Public Education and Outreach and the 2023 Governor’s Community Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence. She is also a KTB mentor and webinar and conference guest speaker.
Charlotte also serves on the SAISD Career, Technology and Education Board, supporting nonprofit educational opportunities; the San Angelo Clubhouse Advisory Board, providing programming and resources for the mental health community; and the Tom Green County Horticulture Committee for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, where she fosters a love of the environment.
