J Lindsay Embrey Jr

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J. Lindsay Embrey, (1925-2005) was a visionary entrepreneur who shaped the future of his community and his alma mater, Southern Methodist University. In the 1950's, he was instrumental in developing what would become Richardson and the North Texas Technology corrider. As a philanthropist and volunteer, J. Lindsay Embrey generously supported SMU, where his legacy includes the J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building and an endowment that has provided scholarships to more than 2,000 engineering students.

 

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The Embrey Family Foundation

The Embrey Family Foundation, based in Dallas, Texas, was established in 2004 by J. Lindsay Embrey (1925-2005). It continues a family tradition of philanthropy and community-building begun by Lindsay Embrey’s great-grandfather, Judge J.M. Lindsay, in Gainesville, Texas. Today, the foundation’s activities are led by Lindsay Embrey’s daughters, Lauren and Gayle Embrey, and the Board of Directors.

 

Lauren Embrey

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Lauren Embrey is the President and CEO of the Embrey Family Foundation and CEO of Embrey Interests, Ltd. She also serves as a Board Member of The Dallas Film Society, The Dallas Women's Foundation, Planned Parenthood of North Texas and TACA in Dallas, The Ms. Foundation for Women and The Women’s Media Center in New York City and The Women’s Campaign Forum in Washington, DC.

Lauren’s passion is theater, film and human rights work. She produced the U.S. Premiere of Truth in Translation in Dallas, TX in 2007. She is Executive Producer for the documentary Playground, a film on the commercial sexual exploitation of children in America, released in 2009. She is also involved in Impact Partners headquartered in New York City and Chicken and Egg Pictures in San Francisco.

Lauren is involved in a follow up production to Truth in Translation about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it is being developed in partnership with the Colonnades Theatre Lab of NYC. Lauren is also involved in the development and production of a film on the life of Bert Williams with Virgin Film in Los Angeles.

Lauren is a member of the Women Donors Network, and is recognized as an Illuminator Donor to the Dallas Women's Foundation Campaign and thereby a participant in the Women Moving Millions Initiative. Lauren serves as Vice Chair of the Women Moving Millions Initiative. Lauren is also a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy Center at Harvard University and a member of the Global Philanthropist Circle, an initiative of the Synergos Institute in NYC.

Lauren received the Women That Soar 2009 Award for Philanthropy in Dallas, TX. The Embrey Family Foundation received the 2009 Award for Outstanding Foundation by the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the 2009 Angel of Freedom Award from Human Rights Initiative. Lauren received the Champion of Human Rights Award given by Mosaic Family Services and the Women Who Give Hope Award given by the Chiapas Project, both in 2010. Lauren received the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award in 2011 given by WomensEnews.

Lauren received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and her Masters in Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

Gayle Embrey

Gayle Embrey is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Addictions Counselor in the State of Colorado who recently retired from private practice. She specialized in recovery from trauma, addictions and eating disorders. Gayle worked for many years counseling survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Along with her sister, Lauren Embrey, Gayle is co-CEO of Embrey Interests, a commercial real estate company in Dallas, Texas. She is past President and current Vice President of the Embrey Family Foundation in Texas: www.embreyfdn.org

Gayle provided pro bono counseling services to survivors of torture. She completed the Train the Trainer Institute to be able to train healthcare providers in how to best work with trafficked persons. She serves on the Advisory Council for the Demand Abolition Campaign established by Hunt Alternatives Fund and on the Advisory Board for the Colorado Project to End Human Trafficking through the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking located in Denver. She is an Executive Producer of The Playground Project, a documentary about child sex trafficking in the United States.

Gayle is currently working on a book and a documentary about the use of murals as voice by disenfranchised peoples around the world. At the same time, she is collaborating with two other filmmakers on a video about the lives and work of some of the women artists in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Gayle is co-author of the book Yoga for Trauma and is a participant in the Women Moving Millions campaign through the Embrey Family Foundation. She is on the board of the Carbondale Council for the Arts and Humanities and is chairing the 2011 SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Month in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Gayle lives in the Western Slope of Colorado and enjoys hiking, rafting, and cross-country skiing as well as photography, painting and yoga.

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