New Orleans, LA - Obama Presidency Oral History New Orleans, LA Index / Locations Transcripts (38) Frances Beinecke ...group leaders and I did travel down to New Orleans , and looked at the impact of Katrin... Kate Orff ...studio with offices in Manhattan and New Orleans . SCAPE's submission to Rebuild b... Kathleen Sebelius ...was going on. It was outside of New Orleans . And it was really not billed as ... ...built in Louisiana, but outside of New Orleans . We were each to talk about—I wa... Lisa Jackson ...I've read that you grew up in New Orleans . Can I ask if that part of your lif... ...in particular ways? Oh, yes. Sure. New Orleans is at the mouth of the Mississipp... ...that source of water got to the city of New Orleans , it had dozens, if not hundreds o... ...house I grew up in in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans is no longer there. It was lost i... ...It was lost in Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans has always been a city that was sort o... ...pollution, and it was around us. New Orleans is an oil and gas, petrochemical hub... ...he grew up in Hawaii and I grew up in New Orleans , we listen to the same music. W... ...your mother, like other people from New Orleans , “has suffered from environmenta... ...I've read that you grew up in New Orleans . Can I ask if that part of your lif... ...in particular ways? Oh, yes. Sure. New Orleans is at the mouth of the Mississipp... ...that source of water got to the city of New Orleans , it had dozens, if not hundreds o... ...house I grew up in in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans is no longer there. It was lost i... ...It was lost in Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans has always been a city that was sort o... ...pollution, and it was around us. New Orleans is an oil and gas, petrochemical hub... ...he grew up in Hawaii and I grew up in New Orleans , we listen to the same music. W... ...your mother, like other people from New Orleans , “has suffered from environmenta... Show more... Regina Benjamin ...careers. I went to Xavier University in New Orleans . And one of the really popular thing... Cecile Richards ...garment workers. Eventually, moved to New Orleans to organize hotel workers, where I me... ...abstract. The women I worked with in New Orleans , Louisiana, cleaning hotel rooms o... ...met trying to organize hotel workers in New Orleans , Louisiana. And I was just recentl... ...women, that are cleaning hotel rooms in New Orleans . It's both incredibly infuriating tha... ...in our early organizing drives in New Orleans . I like to think that for the res... Michael Minor ...the southwest Mississippi, that's like New Orleans . You get over in southeas... Nancy Sutley ...addition to Alaska, I know you visited New Orleans in the fall of 2009, and the presiden... ...of 2009, and the president was also in New Orleans at the time of that trip. I wanted t... ...interact with people on the ground in New Orleans . Yes, I think during the 200... ...responded to what happened in New Orleans . I think almost the communit... ...you have specific aims on that trip to New Orleans ? Yes. There was a lot going on... ...had taken over decades around New Orleans that exacerbated the impact of th... ...they were not very popular [laughs] in New Orleans . So I think the nexus for CEQ wa... ...should be part of the protection around New Orleans , or around any of these coasta... ...also mentioned thinking about people in New Orleans saying, “Not again,” when the B... ...restoration efforts or its approach to New Orleans more broadly? Yes, there are a coupl... ...protection, or the protection of New Orleans . There were concerns about the healt... Show more... Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Black Politics Coming soon Human Rights Coming soon Atlantic Relations Coming soon