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Closing in on the New Convention Center Hotel in New Orleans

For nearly a decade, New Orleans tourism officials have delivered the same warning — without a hotel attached to the Ernest N. Morial Convention...

New Orleans 500: Xavier Cole

A native of Biloxi, Mississippi with nearly three decades of work in higher education, Cole became Loyola’s 18th president in 2023 — the first...

Monique Rodrigue Ricci

Acme Oyster House has outlasted two world wars, Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic oil spill and a global pandemic. After more than a century, it’s...

Shalini Kulasingam, Ph.D., MPH

Shalini Kulasingam traces the arc of her career to Dr. Laura Koutsky, a mentor at the University of Washington, whose work on human papillomavirus...

Arnel W. Cosey, Ph.D.

When Dr. Arnel W. Cosey stepped into the CEO role at Clover (formerly Kingsley House), she described it as a full-circle moment — and...

Julia Fisher-Cormier

Julia Fisher-Cormier has spent her career at the intersection of infrastructure, policy and place. Now, it seems, that "place" is home. A third-generation St. Charles...

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Erin Bigner

Erin Bigner has spent nearly two decades building something in St. Bernard Parish: first a business and now a platform. Before stepping into her role...

Nicole Theriot

Nicole Theriot has spent her career moving between two worlds that rarely overlap: the traditions of fine dining institutions and the scrappy, generative energy...

Tom Patrias

Tom Patrias came to hospital administration through an unlikely door. A Tulane-trained electrical engineer, his first job took him to an architectural engineering firm...