Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Welcoming Community?
Join us on September 11
Post-Katrina New Orleans:
A Welcoming Community?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Audubon Room – Danna Center
A conference sponsored by the Jesuit Social Research Institute and the Center for the Study of New Orleans, made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Free and open to the public and lunch will be provided. For lunch please RSVP to jsri@loyno.edu. Visit http://www.loyno.edu/jsri for more information.
Rooted in the biblical tradition of hospitality, the conference will examine how well poor, elderly, and minority residents and newcomers alike have been welcomed to New Orleans in the five years since the hurricane and what still needs to be done.
Keynoters
Allison Plyer
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.
Jarvis DeBerry
columnist with The Times Picayune.
Martin Gutierrez
Executive Director of Neighborhood & Community Services of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Sr. Jamie Phelps, O.P., Ph.D.
Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University.
Seven Workshops also will be offered.
