Arneatha Ryan Wright

Ryan Wright (she/her), an attorney and business owner for nearly a decade, is presently the managing attorney for ARWI Legal, a Texas law firm located in the Houston area, serving startups and entrepreneurs with business formation, contracting, and planning services across the state.

An innovative business attorney and serial entrepreneur with proven abilities to build creative strategies and solutions for entrepreneurs and fill gaps in her community-at-large. As a natural ambassador and advocate for the marginalized, she is passionate about connecting starving entrepreneurs with resources and tools to legitimize, grow, and protect their companies.

With "Service" as one of her core values, it's no surprise that she would be a founding member and the service committee chair of the Rotary Club of Innovation, a satellite club of the Rotary Club of Houston at The Ion Houston where she leads the Club's coordinated service projects and volunteer efforts. As a founding member of Rising Leaders, the Montrose Center's social and networking group for young professiolnals, she's actively involved in strengthening and making a positive impact on LGBTQ+ communities.

She also founded The Texas Greenhouse Project, a social enterprise creating group homes and services for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care. To help spread her mission to improve the quality and increase the quantity of group homes for marginalized kids in foster care, while empowering communities to build wealth through impact investing, she co-founded Serving Roses Charity Inc., and currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit organization.

She holds a doctorate degree in law from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, a bachelor’s degree in political science with a concentration in english from Howard University, a license to practice law from the State Bar of Texas, and a host of other awards, titles, and associations.