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Profiles
Connie Uddo
Outreach Coordinator: Beacon of Hope
"We weren’t bureaucratic. There was not red tape to go through. You needed help; you got it."
Mary Tran
Executive Director: Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation
"Our area wasn’t on the map to be returned, so because we kept up-to-date with what the city was doing, we organized community members to go up to City Hall to let the committee know that we’ve already returned. You can’t turn us into green space."
Zack Rosenburg
Co-founder and Co-director: St. Bernard Project
"We were shocked to see the lack of progress and [that] there was hardly anything going on. There was no rebuilding going on."
Saundra Reed
Chair of the Board: Central City Renaissance Alliance
"We the people, the residents, the citizens, have come to a clearer understanding...that it is our responsibility to participate in the direction that our future is going in and make clear [that] what our voices say needs to be honored."
Tronn Moller
Gulf Coast Consultant: National Council of Churches
"Churches bring to FEMA, to Homeland Security, a level of expertise in disaster. Being able to provide water, and being able to provide food, being able to provide housing."
Katie Mears
Gutting/Rebuilding Program Coordinator: Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana
"We were working with the most desperate cases, oftentimes acknowledging the gutting wasn’t about reconstruction. It was about closure for the pre-Katrina life."
Karen Gadbois
Founder: Squandered Heritage; Member: New Orleans Institute for Resilience and Innovation
"There’s a recognition that the most effective change agents and heavy lifters have been either in nonprofit sector, or...just pure volunteer."
Pam Dashiell
Co-Director: Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development; Board Member: Holy Cross Neighborhood Association
"We talk to the community. It’s not us with the knowledge; it’s the community with the knowledge. It’s an interactive deal, absolutely....We are the people, and we live here."
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