"Looking Back" Brown Bag Lecture Series

Make plans to join us at Nia Cultural Center while we celebrate our history through our "Looking Back" Brown Bag Lecture Series, which will feature Melissa Dightman to highlight, "“The Music of Maud Cuney Hare.”

A native of Galveston, TX. Melissa is a proud alumnus of Prairie View A&M University where she received a B.A. in Music and the University of Houston where she received a Master in

Music Education with a concentration in choral conducting.

Melissa began her music educator career in Early Childhood and elementary in LaMarque, TX.

She then later became the assistant choral director at Eisenhower HS in Houston, TX. While

she served at Eisenhower as the assistant, she received multiple Sweepstakes awards with her

junior varsity choir. She later was promoted to be the head choral director at Nimitz Sr. High

School and continued to receive the same achievements with her varsity level choirs.

Melissa served as the interim choral director at her alma mater Prairie View A&M University

and music director at Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston, TX. She is currently

serving as co-director at Klein Oak High School in Spring, TX. She is a member of TMEA,

TCDA, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Ms. Dightman is the proud mother of one daughter,

Payton who is a junior at Klein Oak High School.

Grab your lunch and come join us for this wonderful series.