Jason Stanford BA ’92

Jason Stanford BA ’92 coauthored Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth with Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson. It was published on June 8, 2021, by Penguin Random House and ranked No. 10 on the combined hardcover and e-book New York Times Best Seller list a month later. In April, Stanford became chief of communications and community engagement for the Austin Independent School District. One of the perks of the job was getting to hand his youngest son a diploma at his graduation ceremony in May.

Jason Stanford BA ’92 has launched The Stanford Newsletter Experiment. You can read it at https://jasonstanford.substack.com.

Jason Stanford BA ’92, after two and a half years as communications director for Austin Mayor Steve Adler, is starting work for Hill+Knowlton Strategies in the firm’s Austin headquarters.

Jason Stanford BA ’92, who works as communications director in the office of the mayor of Austin, Texas, got his first byline in Texas Monthly magazine. The article, “Bad Girls Get Old,” is about the life and career of Texan writer and singer Jo Carol Pierce.