Plenary Speakers
Shannon Antoine-Hardy, Assistant Professor at Dillard University
Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director at the New Orleans Water Collaborative
Jeffery Darensbourg, Fellow of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Thomas A. LaVeist, Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine
Twitter: @tlaveist
Alonzo Plough, VP Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
John Sabo, Director at the Tulane ByWater Institute
Sheldon Watts, Program Officer, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
Michael White, Keller Endowed Chair, Xavier University and New Orleans Jazz clarinetist, Composer, and Jazz Historian
Breakout Sessions Speakers and Panelists
Andrew Anderson, Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine
Twitter: @andrew_andersn
Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, Associate Professor at Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate World
Jennifer Avegno, Director New Orleans
Health Department
Vence Bonham, Acting Deputy Director in the Office of the Director, and Associate Investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Margot Brown, Vice President Justice and Equity at the Environmental Defense Fund
Kristin Buras, Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University
Gail C. Christopher, Executive Director, National Collaborative for Health Equity
Twitter: @DrGCChristopher
Joao Paulo Connolly, Organizing Director at Austin Justice Coalition
Twittter: @ConnollyJoao
Devin Davis, Director of Political Operations, Voters Organized to Educate
Twittter: @devinchdavis
Amanda Dumas, Interim Chief Medical
Officer for Louisiana Medicaid, Louisiana Department of Health
Alice Feng, Data Visualization Developer at the Urban Institute
Twittter: @fleecealeece
Phoebe Ferguson, Executive Director at the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation
Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School
of Public Health, Twitter: @sandrogalea
Chris Harris, Policy Director at Austin Justice Coalition
Twitter: @chrisharris101
Irene Headen, Assistant Professor of Black Health in the Department of Community Health
and Prevention, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
Adrienne Hollis, Vice President for Environmental Justice, Climate and Community Revitalization, Conservation at the National Wildlife Federation
of Public Health, Twitter: @EJ_Toxicdoc
Cara James, President & CEO Grantmakers
in Health, Twitter: @GIHealth
Dasjon Jordan, Executive Director at Broad Community Connections
Derek Kauneckis, Senior Science Advisor at I See Change
Joanna Lombard, Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture
Gabriel Maldonado, Chief Executive Officer TruEvolution
LaShawn McIver, Director, Office of Minority Health at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Vernice Miller-Travis, Executive Vice President and Social Justice Lead at the Metropolitan Group
Gregorio Millett, Director Public Policy Office
at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Chas Moore, Executive Director at Austin Justice Coalition
Twitter: @iGiveYouMoore
Harold Neighbors, Senior Advisor for Public Health Research and Training at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Bob Ortega, Senior Writer at CNN Investigates, Advisory Board Chairman and Senior Fellow at the USC Center for Health Journalism
Twitter: @Bob_Ortega
Caroline Reed, Project Manager at I See Change
Raynard Sanders, Board Chair, Plessy and Ferguson Foundation
Dawn Smith, Clinical Biomedical Prevention
Activity Lead, HIV Research Branch,
Division of HIV Prevention at the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Kristefer Stojanovski, Research Assistant Professor, Tulane University School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Twitter: @KrisStoj
Katherine Theall, Cecile Usdin Professorship in Women’s Health; Director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity; Research and Senior Director at the Violence Prevention Institute; Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Michelle Vasquez, PhD student at the University of the Incarnate World
Emilie Taylor Welty, Director of Architecture and Favrot Professor of Practice, Tulane University School of Architecture and Design Build Manager at the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design
Lillie Williamson, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ann Yoachim, Director at the Small Center for Collaborative Design and Professor of Practice at Tulane University School of Architecture
