Bee Moorhead is the executive director of Texas Impact, a position she has held since has been 2000. She is also the executive director of the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Texas Impact’s sister organization that she helped the Texas Impact board of directors to establish to improve and expand interfaith public policy education and dialogue.

As executive director of both organizations, Bee manages a staff of 12, the 13-member Interfaith Center board of directors, and Texas Impact’s 50-member board of delegates from the state’s many faith communities. Under her leadership, Texas Impact and the Interfaith Center have earned state and national recognition for work on interfaith education and community leadership development. Texas Impact has received two awards of merit from the Religion Communicators Council for outstanding publications. Radian 6 named Texas Impact one of the most influential Twitter feeds of the 82nd Texas legislative session.

Bee previously served as a senior fiscal policy analyst for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts where she helped to lead the nationally known Texas Performance Review, providing members of the Legislature with numerous recommendations for strengthening state government and state services, many of which are now law. She was the architect of “Family Pathfinders,” a unique initiative linking families on public assistance with faith and community-based organizations.

Bee holds a Masters degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas LBJ School. She also holds an undergraduate degree in theatrical costume design from UT Austin, and she has studied theology and New Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Bee was awarded the 2011 “Trailblazer” Award by the Texas chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. She has served on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Pollution Prevention Advisory Council and currently serves on several advisory committees to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. She has received Climate Project presenter training with former Vice President Al Gore and executive communication training with UT’s Annette Strauss Institute. She is an alumna of Leadership Austin.

Bee serves as an adjunct faculty member at St. Edward’s University in the Political Science Department where she teaches Legislative Process and Lobbying, and at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary where she lectures on faith and public policy.

An ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Bee has been a member of University Presbyterian Church in Austin since 1983. She is married to Robert Moorhead, a long-time staff member of the award-winning PBS television show “Austin City Limits.” The Moorheads have three children.