Join us for our events coming up in March 2015!

MARCH 25 | WEDNESDAY
Film Screening: Cant Stop the Water
Discussion with director, Rebecca Ferris, and documentary participants
from Isle de Jean Charles: Chief Albert Naquin and Brunet family
Location Indywood Cinema
628 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
630pm Screening
730pm Introduction by LT. Gen Russel Honor
Q&A with Director Rebecca Ferris, Chief Albert Naquin
and the Brunet family

MARCH 26 | THURSDAY
Ten Years Strong Building Deeper Connections in the
Community: Resilient Merchants Walk and Learn in Mid-City
This evening discussion invites three prominent Mid-City business
owners to discuss how they have made positive changes to their
continuity planning and resilience collaborations. Attendees will meet at
the Gulf Coast Bank for an introduction and happy hour to begin our
talk. We will walk to Angelo Brocatos Italian Ice Cream and Pastry,
where we will discuss how this staple of New Orleans weathered the
destruction of Hurricane Katrina to reopen less than one month later,
and helped Mid-City bounce back. Finally, we will complete our tour at
Masseys and discuss the Lafitte Greenway and its anticipated positive
effect on the business. We invite community members, organizers,
business owners, and small business resilience experts to join us as we
walk and talk.

This free event is coordinated in partnership with Mark Strella of

StayLocal, and Deborah Mills of Dewberry. Walking Shoes
recommended.
Sponsored by Mid-City Business Association
Location Gulf Coast Bank
201 N Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119
6 8pm Happy Hour, Tour, and Discussion

MARCH 27 | FRIDAY
Resilient Nonprofit Tour
This tour will feature stops at local community organizations and
engage leaders openly regarding their role in the community, their
sustainable programming, and their impact on the Greater New Orleans
area.
Location Meeting location will be communicated to participants
9am Shuttle pick up in downtown New Orleans
1 Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement
and Development (www.sustainthenine.org)
2 Global Green Holy Cross Project
(www.globalgreen.org/articles/global/68)
3 Common Ground Relief Wetlands Restoration
(www.commongroundrelief.org/wetlands)
4 St. Bernard Project (www.stbernardproject.org)
230pm Drop off in Central Business District
Please join us for a happy hour and discussion
immediately following the tour!

MARCH 28 | SATURDAY
All Day Workshop
Location Arlene Meraux River Observation Center
5124 E St. Bernard Hwy, Violet, LA 70092
8am Registration Opens
Coffee and Breakfast
Resilience Photo Gallery and Community Exhibitors
840am Introduction: Executive Committee | batteur room
Lauren Butner
Kali Rapp Roy
Jeana Wiser
850am Icebreaker Session: Defining Resilience | batteur room
930am Keynote Speakers | batteur room
Jeff Hebert, Chief Resilience Officer, City of New Orleans
1015am How Will Our Plans Work Together? | batteur room
This panel will feature discussions about the key
environmental/development plans that are currently
being implemented for the region. It will explore ways to
create bridges among the plans and invites key
responsible officials to discuss how to ensure an
integrated and fluid system of resilience for our region.
This panel will highlight important aspects of the plans
including key players and communication of change to
their constituents.
Keven Lovetro, Chief of Flood Risk Management Section,
New Orleans Branch, US Army Corps of Engineers
Robert Rivers, Executive Director, New Orleans City
Planning Commission
Dale Thayer, Director of Community Development, St.
Bernard Parish
David Waggonner, Architect, Waggonner & Ball
Architects: Urban Water Plan
Moderator: Grasshopper Mendoza, Co-Founder, Horizon
Initiative Water Committee
1115am Break
1130am Concurrent Sessions I
Weather the Storm: Building Strong Networks through
Resource Collaboration | second flood classroom
This panel invites players from networks of different
scales to share their lessons learned and best practices to
build better communication and resistance to hazards.

Members of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association

Resilient Neighbors Network from the Shenandoah Valley
(Virginia) and Tulsa (Oklahoma) are collaborating within
their communities to bridge gaps in service provision and
prevent redundancy in programming to mitigate disasters.
In the Gulf South, frontline communities are collaborating
to seed a 2015 regional movement, #GulfSouthRising,
toward equity through coordinated actions and events. In
New Orleans, various water-focused organizations have
joined the New Orleans Water Collaborative to discuss
emerging water management opportunities and foster
collaboration among their members.
Colette Pichon Battle, Director/Attorney, Gulf Coast
Center for Law & Policy; #GulfSouthRising
Rebecca Joyce, Central Shenandoah Planning District
Commission
Tim Lovell, Executive Director, Tulsa Partners
Keith Twitchell, Committee for a Better New Orleans;
NOLA Water Collaborative
Moderator: Alessandra Jerolleman, Executive Director,
Natural Hazard Mitigation Association
--Working Together: Government Resilience Among
Coastal Parishes | batteur room
This panel features officials from Plaquemines, Orleans,
and Jefferson Parishes to discuss how they, ten years
after Hurricane Katrina, have strengthened their resilience
not only within their own emergency and disaster
mitigation management plans, but also have provided
partnership to each other.
Nick Cali, Executive Director, Lake Borgne Basin Levee
District
Michelle Gonzales, Director, Jefferson Parish Department
of Floodplain Management and Hazard Mitigation
Dev Jani, Planning Section Chief, New Orleans
Department of Homeland Security & Emergency
Preparedness
Moderator: Dexter Accardo, Director, St. Tammany Parish
Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
1230pm Lunch | barn
Gary Granata, Chef, President of Slow Food New Orleans
130pm Keynote Speaker | batteur room
Luisa Dantas, Land of Opportunity Multimedia Platform
210pm Concurrent Sessions II
Resilience in the Community Showcase: Evolving Efforts
Since Hurricane Katrina | second floor classroom

Evolution is the process in which resilience blossoms

within a community. In the Greater New Orleans area,
hundreds of organizations were created out of the great
needs that engaged citizens sought to fill in the city and
region after Hurricane Katrina. Today, several of these
organizations have grown robustly, some beyond their
initial mission, and have widely extended their services.
This panel features representatives of a few of those
organizations that stand out in their commitment to
resilient communities and building back stronger.
Craig Colten, Director of Human Dimensions, The Water
Institute of the Gulf
Arthur Johnson, Director, The Lower 9th Ward Center for
Sustainable Engagement and Development
Karen KG Marshall, Executive Director, Kids Rethink New
Orleans Schools
Liz McCartney, Co-Founder, St. Bernard Project
David Morris, Executive Director, evacuteer.org
Moderator: Charles Allen, Former Director, The Lower 9th
Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and
Development
--Through the Lens: Telling Important Stories, Inspiring
Conversations, Building Community Resilience | batteur
room
Multimedia and other creative outlets serve as dynamic
platforms to tell important stories, reach new audiences,
and inspire discourse. For the Gulf South region and other
communities navigating water, land, and climate change
issues, the ideas of community resilience are often best
explored at a local level and through a creative lens. This
panel features filmmakers, storytellers, and artists who use
the creative lens to tell stories of resilience, recovery, and
community determination.
Garrett Bradley, Filmmaker, Cover Me; Below Dreams
Luisa Dantas, Filmmaker, Land of Opportunity Interactive
Media Platform
Rebecca Ferris, Filmmaker, Cant Stop the Water; Cottage
Films
Nailah Jefferson, Filmmaker, Vanishing Pearls
Moderator: Rebecca Snedeker, Author, Unfathomable
City; Producer, Land of Opportunity Interactive Media
Platform
315pm Break
330pm Concurrent Sessions III
Louisiana and Alaska: Turning Crisis into Resilience

through Intensive Community Collaboration | second floor

classroom
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the BP Oil Spill,
members of oiled Louisiana communities who were
mentored by Alaskan oiled communities assess how
their association and visits that built close relationships
helped Louisiana communities cope, recover, and commit
to enhancing oil exploration safety.
Mayor Tim Kerner, Town of Jean Lafitte, Jefferson Parish
May Nguyen, Community Outreach Director, Tulane
Environmental Law Clinic
Evan Ponder, Board Member, Lowlander Center
Linda Robinson (Ret.), Prince William Sound Citizens
Advisory Council (via Skype)
Moderator: Rosina Philippe, Grand Bayou Atakapa-Ishak,
Plaquemines Parish
--How Are We Preparing Local Future Resilience
Professionals? | batteur room
The regions educational programming in disaster and
opportunities that tackle resilience in the community are
growing stronger. Both private and public institutions are
lending resources to ensure a more resilient future
through practical educational programs.
Jeff Carney, Director, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio
Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water
Challenge
Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on Water Resources
Law & Policy
Monica Farris, Director, University of New Orleans Center
for Hazards Assessment Response and Technology (UNOCHART)
Moderator: Shirley Laska, Founder of UNO-CHART; CoFounder of the Lowlander Center
440pm Board of Advisors | barn
The Building Resilience Workshop VI presents its Board of
Advisors to discuss the workshops highlights and action
items based on the lessons we have learned from our
participants and speakers. We will hear from the Board on
their achievements and future goals, and explore the path
of embedding solutions into our communities in order to
continue building resilience in coastal Louisiana and
around the world.
530pm Closing Notes | barn
545pm Reception | barn

MARCH 31 | TUESDAY
BRW Presents: Water Competition Showcase
Featuring panelists from: Changing Course Competition, Water
Challenge, Tulane University Dead Zone Prize
In New Orleans and the Louisiana Coast, we are seeing an increase in
the challenges to antiquated processes of how we work with our
greatest challenge: water. This panel brings together the
representatives from the Changing Course design competition, the
Water Challenge, and the upcoming Tulane University Dead Zone Prize
competition, each in their various developing stages, to demonstrate
the importance of entrepreneurship in addressing our regions water
issues and the type of entrepreneurs they seek to encourage to develop
sustainable solutions to their goals.
The overarching goal of the panel is to educate potential entrepreneurs,
stakeholders, and those generally interested in water solutions to
understand better what goes into creating these prize contests, the
organizations expectations, and their potential goals for each
competition depending on the stage of development.
Please register here: http://www.gopropeller.org/events/1011
Location Propeller
4035 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
715pm Presentations
Richard Aubry, Professor of Practice of Business and
Sociology; Assistant Provost for Civic Engagement
and Social Entrepreneurship, Tulane University
Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water
Challenge
Steve Cochran, Director, Mississippi River Delta
Campaign; Environmental Defense Fund
Moderator: Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on
Water Resources Law & Policy
8pm Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A