This panel will feature organizers and directly impacted community members from Louisiana immigrant communities and immigrant justice organizations. The panel will explore the impacts of Hurricane Ida on undocumented community members including the unique circumstances that many of these communities face with little to no access to federal emergency relief. The panel will also explore the role of undocumented and migrant workers during the rebuilding of New Orleans Post-Katrina and how the landscape of immigration policy has changed (or not) since then as the Greater New Orleans area continues to rebuild Post-Ida. 

Featured Panelists: 

• Organizers with Union Migrante
• Homero Lopez, ISLA
• Lisa Maria Rhodes, Alas
• Cristi Rosales-Fajardo, El Pueblo NOLA

• Title Sponsors: The Mellon Graduate Fellows Program

• Supporting Partners: Newcomb Tulane College First-Year Experience, TU Gente, Tulane Libraries, CACTUS, Newcomb Institute, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bywater Institute, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Taylor Center, Tulane Center for Public Service

Donation Information:

All funds for this panel will support directly impacted communities and organizations. To further support their work, and their personal recovery post-Ida, you can show financial solidarity for each panelist/organization using the online links below:

• Union Migrante: https://www.unionmigrante.org/donate
• Immigration Services & Legal Advocacy (ISLA): https://www.islaimmigration.org/ 
• Alas: https://freealas.org/
• El Pueblo NOLA: https://www.elpueblonola.org/support