The Jung Center's 2025 Spring Benefit: An evening with Clint Smith

The Jung Center’s 2025 Spring Benefit: An Evening with Clint Smith

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Co-Chairs

Heidi and Marcus Smith

Judy and Wayne McConnell

Honoree

Mathieu Jn Baptiste

Our speaker Clint Smith is an acclaimed writer, poet, and scholar, whose bestselling book How the Word Is Passed received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was hailed by The New York Times as “an extraordinary contribution to the way we understand ourselves.” A staff writer at The Atlantic, Clint is the author of three award-winning books, including a book of poetry on the simultaneous wonder and despair of fatherhood. Clint’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He was raised in New Orleans, graduated (post-Hurricane Katrina) from The Awty International School in Houston, and received his PhD in Education from Harvard University.

Our honoree Mathieu Jn Baptiste seeks to connect and unite the world around him through his unique perspective, using paint and metal as his tools. Basing his art on oppressed subjects’ and populations’ unsung stories and harsh realities, Mathieu’s purpose is to give voice to the oppressed through his art. In both Houston and Haiti, Mathieu teaches art and mindfulness techniques to underserved communities.

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UNDERWRITER OPPORTUNITIES

BENEFACTOR TABLE $50,000

One premier table of 12

12 invitations to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

12 autographed copies of How the Word Is Passed

Presenting Sponsorship of a Fall 2025 Jung Center program

1-year Mandala Society Benefactor Membership

PARTNER TABLE $25,000

One premier table of 12

12 invitations to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

12 autographed copies of How the Word Is Passed

1-year Mandala Society Associate Membership

UNDERWRITER TABLE $15,000

One premier table of 10

10 invitations to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

10 autographed copies of How the Word Is Passed

1-year Dual Membership

PATRON TABLE $10,000

One table of 10

10 invitations to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

10 autographed copies of How the Word Is Passed

SPONSOR TABLE $5,000

One table of 10

2 invitations to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

2 autographed copies of How the Word Is Passed

INDIVIDUAL BENEFACTOR $5,000

One ticket, seated at a premier table

1 invitation to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

1 autographed copy of How the Word Is Passed

1-year Mandala Society Benefactor Membership

INDIVIDUAL PARTNER $2,500

One ticket, seated at a premier table

1 invitation to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

1 autographed copy of How the Word Is Passed

1-year Mandala Society Associate Membership

INDIVIDUAL UNDERWRITER $1,500

One ticket, seated at a premier table

1 invitation to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

1 autographed copy of How the Word Is Passed

1-year Individual Membership

INDIVIDUAL PATRON $1,000

One ticket

1 invitation to a reception (immediately preceding the event) with Clint Smith

1 autographed copy of How the Word Is Passed

INDIVIDUAL SPONSOR $500

One ticket

VIRTUAL UNDERWRITING TICKET $300

One link to view the lecture

VIRTUAL VIEWING TICKET $150

One link to view the lecture

Host Committee

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