NEW ORLEANS – On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, at 8:30 a.m., National Urban League President/ CEO Marc Morial and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will host a special media briefing to discuss New Orleans’ recovery and progress over the past 10 years.
The media briefing will kick-off the Urban League’s Hurricane Katrina Commemorative Conference, titled RISE: Katrina 10.
Morial and Landrieu will address key points in the city’s recovery including: the State of Black New Orleans: 10 Years Post-Katrina report, restoration in the City’s hardest hit areas and industry successes.
Kim Bondy, New Orleans native and Senior Vice President of Programs and Documentaries of Al-Jazeera America, will moderate the briefing in Elite Hall B at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave.
Immediately following the media briefing at 10:00 a.m., the Urban League will host an Education Town Hall with national and local education leaders. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., will give the keynote address.
Following the Education Town Hall, the RISE: Katrina 10 Luncheon will begin at 12:00 p.m. with a national correspondent’s panel discussion featuring Bondy, New Orleans native and veteran political strategist Donna Brazile, ABC News journalist Byron Pitts and CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller. The luncheon will take place in the Empire Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency.
Others planned to attend the events include Urban League of Greater New Orleans President/ CEO Erika McConduit-Diggs, representatives from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Lumina Foundation, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., Louisiana State Superintendent of Education John White, the Walton Family Foundation K-12 Education Program Director Marc Sternberg and ABC News journalist Byron Pitts.
