Institute for Interesting People is edu-tainment. IIP is for people who enjoy learning a little about a variety of things. IIP promotes intellectual stimulation and personal growth through its relationship with fascinating people and topics.The IIP hosts two types of casual forums – lectures and salon discussions – and can help other groups with speaker identification and engagement. The value of the IIP is that we do the research to find speakers and topics which are unusual. IIP then makes all arrangements to make speakers and topics accessible to its members or other organizations.

Membership is limited, so programs are manageable in size and permit members access and opportunity to interact with the speakers or participate in discussions. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis with priority given to previous members.

All Institute for Interesting People programs are arranged with attention given to quality within a limited time frame. IIP respects that all interested people are busy.

A membership to Institute for Interesting People gains you access to the planned events of IIP, as well as other opportunities which include discounts and other special offers from our partner businesses.

About Regen Horchow Fearon

Regen is always starting something. As a child, she started collecting ideas, people, sights and sounds on frequent buying trips with her Dad.

At Yale, she started a salon for women where discussions ranged from politics to the hockey team. When the courses at Yale were not sufficient, she started taking classes at University of Connecticut at the same time. It was also good training in multitasking, an art she's perfected.

Regen started the Institute for Interesting People to enrich peoples' lives in much the same way hers was enriched by frequent travel where she met interesting people and at her own family dinner table where her parents entertained their interesting friends and she eavesdropped on their fascinating ideas and stories.

Regen has a BA from Yale in American Studies and a M.Ed from the University of North Texas.

She is Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Hockaday School: Secretary of The Dallas Foundation; Board Member for the Tate Lecture Series at SMU; and a member of the Board of Signature Bank.

She and her husband, Jeff, have three daughters, so while starting things these days takes considerable effort, the multitasking has come in handy.