Joan Henderson, Texas Highways Magazine
Tally Ho at the Alamo Seminar, 2015, San Antonio, Texas
JOAN HENDERSON is publisher of Texas Highways magazine and director for TxDOT’s Travel Publication section. Henderson came to Texas Highways in 2014 from Oklahoma Today magazine, where she served as publisher for nearly 20 years.
Henderson is chair of the Conference Planning Committee and serves on the president’s council of the International Regional Magazine Association. Henderson also served for ten years on the board of directors of the Magazine Publishers of America Independent Magazine Advisory Group (MPA-IMAG) and is a past vice-president of the Oklahoma Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Henderson worked as an account executive for Tocquigny Design in Austin in the early 1990s and led an award-winning multi-image photography team in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1980s.
Born in New York and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Henderson graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BA in Humanities. An accomplished photographer, her hand-tinted black and white images have been featured in numerous periodicals and in photographic exhibitions in Oklahoma, Texas, and Massachusetts.
Henderson was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2011.
To view her presentation on True Texas Engagement, click here.