Early last month, Moishe Nola welcomed 20 volunteers from Brown
University who decided to travel to New Orleans during their Winter
Break to rehabilitate homes in the 7th Ward with the nonprofit
Operation Helping Hands. As part of our monthly programming, Moishe
Nola hosted the Brownies with pizza and soda, and assembled a panel of
New Orleans young professionals who facilitated an open discussion about
life, work and recovery issues in post-Katrina New Orleans. The panel
featured a diverse group of young talent representing an impressive
cross section of fields operating in the rebuilding industry. Each
spoke briefly about their personal journey to New Orleans and the
impact of their work. New Orleans 2010 mayoral candidate James Perry
headlined the evening. James spoke to the group about his work as a
housing advocate in New Orleans, life growing up in the Big Easy, and
his effort to bring grassroots change to our local city government.
Afterward, the students' engaged panelist in a question and answer
session addressing their concerns about future flood protection, the
reformation of the education system, the rebuilding process, and
issues of social justice.
2 comments:
Amazing. James Perry's coming to Boston next week to talk about his work and plug his mayoral campaign. Anything we should know in advance? Thanks!
This guy seems like a welcome fresh change to our city. Now, if only they will limit the voting this time to residents of New Orleans, heck, even limiting the voting to residents of Louisiana would be an improvement, this guy might be just what we need!
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