NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The Atlantic will host an event recognizing the city’s resilience while evaluating the challenges it and other communities across the country continue to face. A schedule of today’s events is below, you can get more information at: http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/new-orleans-ten-years-later/2015/
9:00 a.m. A Sense of Place
A poem from Madeleine LeCesne, National Student Poet
9:02 a.m. Opening Remarks
James Bennet, Co-President and Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
9:05 a.m. Town Hall: What Does it Mean to Know New Orleans?
Lolis Eric Elie, Writer and Filmmaker
Madeleine LeCesne, National Student Poet, Southwest Region
Minh Nguyen, Co-Founder and Executive Director, VAYLA
Chris Rose, Journalist and Author, 1 Dead in Attic
Oliver Thomas, Former City Council Member; Host, WBOK Radio
Tracie Washington, President and CEO, The Louisiana Justice Center
With Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour
9:45 a.m. The Crescent City Now
Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City of New Orleans
With Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic
10:15 a.m. Disaster Preparedness and Anticipating the Next One
W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, FEMA
With Steve Clemons, Washington Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic
10:40 a.m. Views of Recovery: New Data Tells the Story
Michael Henderson, Research Director, LSU Public Policy Research Lab
With Steve Clemons
10:50 a.m. A City Changing: Housing, Neighborhoods and Tradition
Pres Kabacoff, Co-Chairman of the Board and CEO, HRI Properties
James Perry, Former Executive Director, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute
With James Bennet
11:15 a.m. Through the Eyes of Artists: Culture Across Generations
Marcus Akinlana, Artist
Leonard Galmon, Student and Artist
Brandan “Bmike” Odums, Artist and Owner, 2 Cent Entertainment LLC
With Jonathan Ferrara, Artist and Owner, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
11:35 a.m. Young, Black and Male in New Orleans
Michael Harrison, Superintendent, New Orleans Police Department
La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Margaret Simms, Director of Low-Income Working Families Initiative, Urban Institute
Mark Walters, Community Organizer, The Micah Project
With Jarvis DeBerry, Columnist, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
12:05 p.m. Chartered and Uncharted: Navigating Education for the Next Generation
Kira Orange Jones, Executive Director, Teach for America Greater New Orleans-Louisiana Delta
Andre Perry, Columnist, The Hechinger Report
John White, Superintendent of Education, State of Louisiana
Rosylin York, Parent
With Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
12:35 p.m. Story of a Family: The Banquets
Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times
Terry Baquet, Director of Print, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Wayne Baquet, Owner, Li’l Dizzy’s
With James Bennet
1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:50 p.m. A Roadmap for Resilience
Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
2:05 p.m. Katrina and Sandy: What Kind of Cities Do We Want to Build?
Luisa Dantas, Filmmaker, Land of Opportunity
Robin Keegan, Director of Community Resiliency, GCR Incorporated
With Eve Troeh, Director of News, WWNO
2:25 p.m. Living With Risk: Designing a Better System
Karen Durham-Aguilera, Director, Contingency Operations and Office of Homeland Security; Director of Task Force Hope in New Orleans, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Mark Schleifstein, Environmental Reporter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
With Steve Clemons
2:50 p.m. Living With Water: Designing a Better System
David Waggonner, President, Waggonner and Ball Architects
With Jeffrey Goldberg
3:10 p.m. A Sense of Place
Jesmyn Ward, Author, Salvage The Bones and Men We Reaped
With Eve Troeh
3:30 p.m. Resilient Nation: Strengthening Our Places
Lauren Alexander Augustine, Director, Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events, The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and, Medicine
Rolf Pendall, Director of the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute
Zack Rosenburg, Co-Founder and CEO, St. Bernard Project
With Steve Clemons
4:00 p.m. Town Hall: What Does New Orleans Now Know?
John M. Barry, Author, Rising Tide; Distinguished Scholar, Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research
Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Educator and Artist; Co-Founder and Curator, Mardi Gras Indians Hall of Fame
Michael Hecht, President and CEO, Greater New Orleans Inc.
Bennie Pete, Founder and Band Leader, Hot 8 Brass Band
Gary Rivlin, Journalist and Author, Katrina: After the Flood
Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
With Gwen Ifill
4:35 p.m. Reception with Music by Hot 8 Brass Band