Richard facilitates individualized plans that prepare each student for a lifetime of learning and success. He works with students who have not yet achieved or maintained appropriate academic goals. He specializes in advising college students how to identify, evaluate, and achieve realistic academic and personal goals.
Since 2021, he has worked as a Preferred Provider Coach with J Flowers Health Institute in Houston while in private practice in Austin. From 2013 to 2021, Richard worked as an Achievement Consultant with Academic Answers, LLC, an educational and therapeutic consulting firm in Austin.
For the ten years before entering private practice, he served as Academic Advising Coordinator at The University of Texas at Austin, working with students whose non-academic issues had disrupted academic plans. He twice earned the student-nominated James A. Vick Advising Award, the highest recognition for academic advising. He also earned the inaugural Liberal Arts Council’s Outstanding Advising Award, as well as the National Academic Advising Association Outstanding Program Award while in the Dean’s Office. He served as liaison to
the Center for Students in Recovery, as advocate in the Voices against Violence program, and as ally in the LQBQTI+ Initiative. In his career, Richard has helped several thousand individuals find their paths to academic success.
He began his career as an early-decision admit at Brown University and earned his doctorate from UT Austin in American Studies. He taught history at UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Austin Community College, where he was nominated for Outstanding Faculty Member. He recently contracted a book manuscript with Texas A&M Press on legislator J. T. Canales’s valiant 1919 attempt to reform the Texas Rangers. It will be released winter 2024-25.
He has been in active recovery since 1997. Two adult sons and their partners live in Austin. A young grandson Henry and exuberant Shepherd/Catahoula/Love Muffin-mix dog, JuJu, keep him active! He enjoys tennis, hiking, history, reading, and live music.