{"id":465108,"date":"2026-10-13T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465108\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:52:08","slug":"samuel-jacobson-appointed-to-houston-commission-on-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465108\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Jacobson appointed to Houston Commission on Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pagephoto layout_pagephoto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/articles-2026-10-13-20-30-01-170.jpg\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Samuel \u201cSam\u201d Jacobson, Kyzia Walcott, Adele Henry, Mayor John Whitmire, Caitlin Conner and (front) Angel Ponce.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Published\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Thu, Oct 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Houston community advocate\u00a0Samuel Jacobson, known to friends and colleagues as\u00a0Sam, has been appointed to a four-year term on the\u00a0Houston Commission on Disabilities. <\/p>\n<p>With a longtime commitment to community engagement, nonprofit leadership, strategic partnerships, accessibility and belonging, Jacobson looks forward to bringing that experience to the Commission. He will work alongside Commission chair, Adele Henry; fellow commissioners,\u00a0Angel Ponce, director of the Houston Office for People with Disabilities; Mayor John Whitmire; and Houston City Council\u00a0to advance accessibility and inclusion throughout Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to serve the city of Houston and give back to a community that has given me so much,\u201d Jacobson said. \u201cFor me, this is also an extension of the Jewish value of\u00a0tikkun olam, repairing the world. I look forward to listening, building partnerships and helping make Houston more accessible and inclusive for everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Samuel \u201cSam\u201d Jacobson, Kyzia Walcott, Adele Henry, Mayor John Whitmire, Caitlin Conner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,116482,31274,116481,116480,116479,12008,27],"class_list":["post-465108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-synagogues","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-herald-voice","tag-jewish-news","tag-jhv","tag-newspaper","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}