Frank Beard (musician) Frank Beard (musician) Frank Lee Beard (born June 11, 1949) is the drummer in the American rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellers, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top. Beard was born in Frankston, Texas, and attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas. In late 1969, he joined The Moving Sidewalks, a band that would become ZZ Top. Beard also introduced Gibbons to bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill, with whom Beard had
Elisa Villanueva Beard Elisa Villanueva Beard Elisa Villanueva Beard is the CEO of Teach For America (TFA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for low-income students across America. Villanueva Beard began her education career as a 1998 corps member of TFA, teaching first and second grade bilingual education. Villanueva Beard grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from DePauw University in 1998, where she was also a member of the college's NCAA Division III basketball team. Villanueva Beard remembers being part of a small minority of Mexican American students