Agenda

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Welcome

9:15 - 10:20 AM

From Then to Now: 25 Years in the Fight for Housing Justice

Panelists:                                                                                    

Sarah Omojola, LaFHAC Board Member

Lucia Blacksher Ranier, Tulane Civil Rights and Federal Practice Clinic Rosalind Washington, Neighborhood Development Foundation  Moderated by Cashauna Hill, LaFHAC

10:20 - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 - 11:30 AM

Breakout Sessions


Expanding Housing Access for Formerly Incarcerated People 

(1 hour CLE credit)

Dolfinette Martin

Will Snowden

Kelly Orians

Moderated by Renee Corrigan


Cartographies of Violence: Black Displacement, Confinement, and Disposability in Housing Policies, Land-Use Planning, and Urban Development

Shana M. griffin


Not In My Back Yard: How NIMBY Attitudes Toward Affordable Housing Maintain Segregation

Kathy Laborde

Kelsey Foster

Kawana Jasper

Moderated by Maxwell Ciardullo

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Taking Action for Healthy Homes in New Orleans 

Shelina Davis

Frank Southall

Emily Loska

12:30 - 12:45 PM

Awards

Award for Courage: LaFHAC Client Susan

Fair Housing Hero: Community Member D. F.

12:45 - 1:45 PM

 Keynote by Isabel Wilkerson: The Afterlife of Migration and Our Karmic Moment of Truth 

1:45 - 2:00 PM

Closing

2:00 - 3:00 PM

 Book signing with Isabel Wilkerson


*Made Possible by Community Book Center