SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS: 2025

Andreanecia M. Morris serves as Executive Director for HousingNOLA, a 10-year public private partnership working to end New Orleans’ affordable housing crisis. The 10-year Strategy and Implementation Plan is a comprehensive and radical strategy guided by data and community input to address systemic inequity issues in housing. Morris has spent her career working in various parts of the housing system since graduating from Loyola University New Orleans.  After Hurricane Katrina, she implemented programs that created over 500 first time homebuyers, secured $104.5 million soft second subsidy for Metro New Orleans, and provided supportive services for approximately 5,000 households. Morris also holds a MA in Community Development Policy and Practice from the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy. 

Morris was lead organizer for the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance (GNOHA) when it started in 2007 and now serves as its President. GNOHA’s advocacy supported members and partners in developing approximately 88,000 housing opportunities between 2006 and 2015 in New Orleans. Now, GNOHA supports efforts to preserve and create affordable housing — placing a special emphasis on the needs of the most vulnerable in society.

Gambit Weekly named Morris New Orleanian of the Year for her role in HousingNOLA’s innovative strategy in 2017. In 2021, Consumer Federation of America (CFA) named her one of its five Consumer Champions. Most recently, the University of New Hampshire chose to celebrate and spotlight Morris’ work through its 2023 Sustainability Awards program. Morris was one of five alumni honored by the program which recognizes significant multi-year body of work in the professional or civic lives of alumni. Morris also chairs the HousingLOUISIANA Alliance Network; serves on the boards of Finance Authority of New Orleans (FANO), Energy Wise and Grounded Solutions Network and serves Prosperity Now Policy Advisory Committee and the community advisory committees for Capital One and Cadence Bank.

 Cashauna joins the Redress Movement after serving as Executive Director of one of the most active fair housing advocacy groups in the country, the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center (formerly known as the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center). At LaFHAC, she led a team working holistically to end discriminatory housing policies and practices through litigation, policy advocacy, community-based educational offerings, and other direct services to community members. 

As an advocate, leader, and litigator with personal connections to the impacts of residential segregation and exclusionary housing policy, her work as Executive Director included leading the community engagement process for the City of New Orleans’ 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing plan – the first in the nation submitted under a 2015 rule requiring state and local governments to identify and address barriers to fair housing choice.

 Additionally, her background includes successful resolution of fair housing and lending claims through administrative and court processes. Cashauna has written extensively about housing segregation and civil rights and has testified before the United States Congress as a fair housing expert. Most importantly, for the Redress Movement, Cashauna brings her commitment to racial justice and a deep understanding of racial segregation and fair housing innovation. She is a graduate of Spelman College and Tulane University’s Law School. 

Prior to assuming the leadership role at People’s Housing+, Oji served as the Executive Director of Home By Hand (one of three organizations that merged to form PH+). In his role at Home By Hand, Oji led the development and sale of over 200 new, energy-efficient, storm-resistant homes and has facilitated the return of over 300 vacant and blighted properties to tax commerce in the neighborhoods throughout New Orleans. Home by Hand re-defined the method of design and delivery of affordable housing to low-and moderate-income homebuyers and is at the forefront of implementing stormwater management and green infrastructure into residential homes.

 Oji is a resident of the Oak Park neighborhood in Gentilly and is an active community member. He is a Propeller Incubator Alumnus and currently serves on the board of CASA New Orleans, a non-profit organization that fights for the rights of abused and neglected children. He also currently serves on the Enterprise Community Partners Community Leadership Council, the Advisory Board of AMCREF Community Capital Center, and the National Community Stabilization Trust – Homeownership Alliance and is a member of the Center for Community Investment – Fulcrum Fellowship Class of 2023.

Amy Stelly is an artist, designer, planner and teacher. Her body of work includes architectural and urban design, along with abstract painting, drawing, mask-making, photography, poetry, mixed-media and three-dimensional construction. As a designer and planner, her scope of work includes building and open space design, historic restoration, downtown and neighborhood revitalization, environmental planning, zoning, entitlements, site planning, streetscape and landscape design. 

Her advocacy work with the Claiborne Avenue Alliance includes spearheading a recent study of community health outcomes for all living or working near urban highways. Amy has studied and worked with acclaimed masters, including Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Douglas Farr and the late Charles Moore. She has lectured on urban gardens and the history of planning and open space in Treme; and she’s written about the value of community engagement and public accountability for The Lens, an online investigative publication. 

Amy is a licensed tour guide, specializing in tours that look at the changing urban fabric. She is a native of New Orleans and lives in Treme where her family has resided for four generations.

Angela (she/they) holds deep interests in both housing and disability justice, a combination largely born from their family experiences. 

Currently, Angela supports and directs advocacy and programs at Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative. Previously, Angela worked for over ten years with unhoused individuals. In that work, Angela is most proud to have conducted research about the gaps between policing and serving unhoused individuals in New Orleans, which they leveraged to more than triple street outreach funding in the city. 

Angela is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and, so informed by that lens, is concerned with how we can best support the needs and agency of all individuals, especially psychiatrically vulnerable adults.