Kim Andersen worked in the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center for 16 years as a teacher (4x Teacher of the Year winner) and school counselor and is currently in his fourth year serving as the Program Director of the Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program in Travis County, TX.

Judge Denise Hernández is the Presiding Judge of County Court at Law #6, a community organizer, and an adjunct professor at Huston-Tillotson University and St. Edward’s University. She also serves as the Presiding Judge of the Transformative Youth Justice Program, a community-centered diversion initiative supporting system-impacted youth and emerging adults.

Grounded in her lived experience and working-class roots, Judge Hernández is committed to co-building a justice system that truly belongs to the people. She approaches the bench with the belief that justice is created with community through trust, presence, and collective care. Her leadership has been recognized both locally and nationally, and she was honored as Austinite of the Year for her leadership and deep commitment to community.

Dr. Matthew Hinsley has worked as a community arts organizer in Central Texas for thirty years. Inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2026, he received the 2020 Margaret Perry Award for Excellence in Education and a 2019 Milestone Award from the National Guild for Community Arts Education. He was named Public Citizen of the Year in 2017 by the National Association of Social Workers in Texas, and was a winner of a 2015 Austin Under 40 award.

As Executive Director of Austin Classical Guitar (ACG), Dr. Hinsley has raised millions of dollars in support of broad concert, community engagement, and educational programming, building the nation’s largest classical guitar nonprofit organization. In 2015 he joined the faculty at the University of Texas College of Fine Arts to teach courses in arts entrepreneurship and business management in the arts. In 2021 Hinsley opened a concert and creative learning center in central Austin, called The Rosette.

Dr. Hinsley is founder and a lead author of the ACG curriculum and music library that, paired with extensive direct service, has transformed classroom guitar education in public schools across the United States reaching tens of thousands of students. The curriculum, which is now used internationally, is in service in over fifty Austin-area schools including for-credit programs at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, multiple Juvenile Justice centers, forty-five Texas districts, and forty US states.

Dr. Hinsley was trained as a classical guitarist and vocalist at the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has written ten books including The Spirit Economy: On Generosity, Purpose, and Service, Form & Essence: A Guide to Practicing Truth, Creativity to Community: Arts Nonprofit Success One Coffee at a Time, Classical Guitar for Young People, and the film-optioned fantasy series Tinder & Flint.

David “Scott” Matthew is Executive Director of Williamson County Juvenile Services and certified Juvenile Probation Officer for the past 36 years. Scott also serves as Municipal Judge for the cities of Jarrell, Granger, Bartlett and Buckholtz where he was first appointed in 2008. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Probation Association, and Texas Municipal Courts Association. Scott was first appointed by former Governor Rick Perry to the Criminal Justice Advisory Board to the Governor, and then he was the Texas Governor's appointee to the Juvenile Justice Services and Facilities Transition Team, which coordinated and oversaw the transition of services and facilities during the formation of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) in 2011. Following the successful transition, Scott was appointed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department Board of Directors for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2019.

In February of 2019, Governor Gregg Abbott reappointed Scott to continue serving on the TJJD Board for another 6-year term expiring on Feb 1, 2025. Governor Abbott named Scott chairman of the TJJD Board in January 2023 through February of 2026.

Scott also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Correctional Management Institute at Sam Houston State University. Locally, he has served as a board member for the Georgetown Health Foundation where he was chair of the Grants committee and has also served on the boards of several non-profit youth focused boards including the Georgetown Project, Williamson County Children’s Support Coalition and Boys and Girls Club of Georgetown.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Southwestern University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.