On Our Watch

#42 - Julie Lively of Louisiana Sea Grant

Julie Lively is the Executive Director of Louisiana Sea Grant, an extension of the National Sea Grant College Program, located at LSU, that works to promote stewardship of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of research, education, and outreach. Julie’s research background centers around commercial fisheries, marine chemical cue ecology, crab biology, and marine invasive species. She is Louisiana Sea Grant’s fourth executive director since the program’s establishment in 1968 and the first woman to lead the organization. 
 
Louisiana Sea Grant: https://www.laseagrant.org/
 
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#41 - Captain Karla Beck of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office

Captain Karla Beck is the Director of Programming and Reentry at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office, as well as the Director of Project COPE, a comprehensive effort to battle opioid addictions in Lafourche Parish. Captain Beck also has a strong background in mental health and crisis care.
 
Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office: https://www.lpso.net/
 
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#40 - Andy Sternad of Waggonner & Ball

Andy Sternad is the Principal & Business Unit Leader at Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. Andy is a leader of Waggonner & Ball’s resilience practice at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban design. He focuses on urban- and building-scale solutions that reveal the character of place and integrate issues of climate, nature, economy, and people. Andy works to build long-term collaborative partnerships between clients, communities, designers, and technical experts.
 
Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/
 
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#39 - Nicole Bourgeois of Lafourche Parish Brief Therapy Center

Nicole Bourgeois is a Development Specialist at the Lafourche Parish Brief Therapy Center, a free counseling service launched by the Lafourche Parish Government. This initiative offers eight sessions of behavioral health counseling and therapy services at no cost to all residents of Lafourche Parish. Nicole is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. 
 
Lafourche Parish Government: www.lafourchegov.org
 
Lafourche Parish Brief Therapy Center: (985) 304-4673
 
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#38 - Jaime Ramiro Diaz of Waggonner & Ball

Jaime Ramiro Diaz (Rami) is the Urban Design Director at Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. He is also the leader of Waggonner & Ball’s resilience and Living With Water® practice. Rami is a client liaison, senior project designer, and collaboration leader for climate adaptation projects across the country, including the Dutch Dialogues®, Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, Gentilly Resilience District, Norfolk Ohio Creek NDR, and Resilient Hampton.
 
Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/
 
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#37 - Chef Dana Honn of Carmo

Dana Honn is the the Executive Chef and Owner of Carmo, a New Orleans-based tropical café with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients and sustainability. The menu is built upon the rich, multi-cultural culinary influences found throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, the Gulf South, and beyond. Dana has also been a longtime advocate for ocean and coastal conservation and restoration, and for the use of sustainably-sourced seafood.
 
Carmo - https://cafecarmo.com/
 
Dana Honn - https://danahonn.com/
 
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#36 - David Waggonner of Waggonner & Ball

David Waggonner is the founding principal of Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, David saw an opportunity for New Orleans to reinvent itself as a sustainable city that embraces its lifeblood: water. He championed a process that examines history, soils, biodiversity, infrastructure networks, urban space and habitation, along with the forces of water. This combination serves as a holistic foundation for design, initiated during the Dutch Dialogues®, developed through the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, and now being implemented in multiple projects.
 
Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/
 
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#35 - Jacqueline Richard of Nunez Community College

Jacqueline Richard is the Director of Coastal Studies & GIS Technologies at Nunez Community College, where she has led the program since 2022. She has decades of experience in the field and the classroom studying Louisiana’s disappearing coast. Jacqueline was also recently named among the winners of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s (CRCL) 2024 Coastal Stewardship Awards.
 
Nunez Community College Coastal Studies Program - https://catalog.nunez.edu/programs/coastal-studies-gis-technology/
 
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#34 - Jessica Dandridge-Smith of The Water Collaborative

Jessica Dandridge-Smith is the Executive Director for The Water Collaborative, an organization dedicated to urban water management in the Greater New Orleans region. As Executive Director, Jessica focuses on community led adaptation and mitigation as the core to water justice and climate resiliency strategies. Today The Water Collaborative focuses on water management, hazard mitigation, water justice through access, affordability, and quality, and equitable community transformation through blue/green jobs and the renewable economy.
 
The Water Collaborative - https://www.nolawater.org/
 
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#33 - Peter Waggonner of GNO Inc.

Peter Waggonner is the Public Policy Director for Greater New Orleans, Inc., Southeast Louisiana’s regional economic development organization. His portfolio encompasses infrastructure, insurance, and the environment at local, state, and federal levels. He also manages the Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance (CSFI) and GNO, Inc.’s resilience work. 
 
Greater New Orleans, Inc. - https://gnoinc.org/
 
Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance - https://csfi.info/
 
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