February 2021

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Chris Ferris

Chris Ferris President and CEO | Fidelity Bank & NOLA Lending Group Fun Fact My favorite productivity tool/app is One Note. I receive so much information daily...
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How are you recognizing February as Heart Health Month?

    Keith C. Ferdinand, M.D. Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventive Cardiology Tulane University School of Medicine “I will honor Heart Month by helping my patients and...
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Elizabeth Haecker Ryan

Specialty General Civic Litigation Company Coats Rose Experience 30 years in practice Education BA Tulane University; JD Tulane University School of Law For Elizabeth Haecker Ryan, the path to her profession was...
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DINING | Oyster Innovators

A native New Orleanian, Poppy Tooker has spent her life devoted to the cultural essence that food brings to Louisiana, a topic she explores...
Workspaces

The Dao of Design

  We begin as humanitarians who have chosen architecture as our profession. — Julia LeBlanc, Trahan Architects director of communications Buildings designed by the team at New...
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Popular Programs Help with Quick Career Changes

  Victoria Adams Phipps Chief Strategy Officer New Orleans Business Alliance Nonprofits like Operation Spark and the New Orleans Career Center provide hands-on training for immediate opportunities, and...
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Publisher’s Note

Last February my publisher’s note was all about annual meetings and the number of working days in February — an acknowledgment of the distraction...
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Home Sweet Float

For over 30 years, Rene and Inez Pierre have been building Carnival floats, but never like this. On Dec. 26, they received their first...
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Walter J. Leger Jr.

Specialty Maritime, Admiralty, Class Actions Company Leger & Shaw Experience 45 years in practice Education BA Louisiana State University; JD Tulane University School of Law Walter Leger Jr. is a larger-than-life legal...
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Staying Physically Healthy by Protecting Your Mental Health

As we think about the challenges before us today, taking care of ourselves and our families — both physically and mentally — is more...
Food

Determined to Find the Sweet Spot

  “We’ve always tried to work together, and our supplier community is an important part of that group. I think we know that we are...
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Christopher J. Kane

Specialty Economic development, transportation, construction and government relations Company Adams & Reese Experience 17 years in practice Education BA and MBA Christian Brothers University; JD Loyola University New Orleans College of...
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Editor’s Note

Everyone in the world has now experienced the COVID-19 version of a holiday season, and — for those that heeded the scientific and medical...
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TOURISM | They All Asked For You

Jennifer Gibson Schecter was once a tourist in New Orleans herself and is now proud to call NOLA home. She also writes the Wednesday...
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Greg Latham

Specialty Intellectual Property Company Intellectual Property Consulting Experience 22 years in practice Education BS University of Illinois; JD Tulane University School of Law Greg Latham, founder and managing director of Intellectual Property...
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Maritime Looks Ahead

We remain optimistic that the business will return to a much more profitable place, but as for the balance of 2021, I think the...
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Employee Mental Health?

Everyone needs emotional support. We have callers of all ages, races, every possible struggle of life. — Jeremy Fischbach CEO and Founder of Happy After a...
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Celeste Coco-Ewing

Specialty product liability and toxic tort cases Company Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver Experience 21 years in practice Education BA Tulane University; JD Tulane University Law School The intersection of policy,...
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Expansion of Homeless Services Planned

“This is a new phase for our organization, providing a brighter future for so many in need.” — Clarence Adams, CEO of Ozanam Inn,...
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ENTREPRENEUR | Leaping Over a Low Bar

Keith Twitchell spent 16 years running his own business before becoming president of the Committee for a Better New Orleans. He has observed, supported...
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SPORTS | Adieu, Drew

Chris Price is an award-winning journalist and public relations principal. When he’s not writing, he’s avid about music, the outdoors, and Saints, Ole Miss...

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