Michael Massimi is the Invasive Species and Marine Programs Coordinator at the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, also known as BTNEP. He currently manages projects to conduct research, control, management, outreach and public education on invasive species. Michael also represents BTNEP in matters of coastal restoration and storm protection planning.    Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program (BTNEP) - https://btnep.org    To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5pVY6UvLfy4

Riley Essert is the Youth & Environmental Programs Manager at Groundwork New Orleans, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the City of New Orleans. Groundwork New Orleans works to achieve the mission we share with Groundwork USA, which is to work to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being.    Groundwork New Orleans - https://groundwork-neworleans.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vRoH3b2sFJg

Chett Chiasson is the Executive Director of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission (GLPC), a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana that facilitates the economic growth of the communities in which it operates by maximizing the flow of trade and commerce. GLPC encompasses both Port Fourchon and the South Lafourche Airport.    Greater Lafourche Port Commission - https://portfourchon.com    To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5_RM-gPiDVY

Todd Reynolds is the Executive Director of Groundwork New Orleans. Groundwork New Orleans works to achieve the mission we share with Groundwork USA, which is to work to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being.    Groundwork New Orleans - https://groundwork-neworleans.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sdOsQYVtpZ0

Sandy Ha Nguyen is the founder and Executive Director of Coastal Communities Consulting, Inc., also known as CCC. CCC is a non-profit organization that provides technical assistance, economic development, social support services, and continued disaster assistance to rural entrepreneurs and their families. Established in September 2010, CCC builds off of 20 years of dedicated service to the community by Sandy Nguyen. Since 1996, Mrs. Nguyen has been working with commercial fishermen and Asian-Americans who have needed assistance with business development, social services, and disaster recovery assistance.   Coastal Communities Consulting, Inc. - http://www.ccc-nola.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RG45XOfZv9w

Ryan Mattingly is the Executive Director at Louisiana Green Corps, an organization dedicated to providing career building opportunities for people aspiring to improve their lives and community.    LA Green Corps offers pathways to upward mobility and civic participation through job training and education services, advocacy and environmentally restorative projects.    Over the last sixteen years, Ryan's academic and professional efforts have been guided by the goal of helping transform the neighborhoods of New Orleans into healthy communities by improving quality access to education, jobs, and housing for all.   Louisiana Green Corps: https://lagreencorps.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/C7nSsRXh490

Dani DiIullo is the Director of Education and Engagement at Louisiana Sea Grant, an extension of the National Sea Grant College Program, located at LSU. In this position, Dani helps to provide urgently important science education, especially as it pertains to the stewardship of coastal environments and natural resources. Dan became LSG’s Education and Engagement director in 2021 and has since continued programs like Ocean Commotion and LaDIA, as well as initiated new programs like Wetland Days and Consider Litter.    Louisiana Sea Grant Education: https://www.laseagrant.org/education/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qZV1K8udPXI

Tina Freeman is a New Orleans-based photographer. For the past forty-five years, Tina Freeman’s photography has focused on revealing interior subjects through the exploration of physical environments and natural light. In addition to architecture and interiors in her native New Orleans and around the United States and Europe, Freeman’s subjects include urban warehouses and Louisiana’s natural landscape and backcountry swamps. Her project, Lamentations, juxtaposes images of the Louisiana wetlands with ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.   Tina Freeman: https://tinafreeman.com/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YbIYqn6IexI  

Sage Michael Pellet is the New Orleans Climate Justice Organizer at Healthy Gulf, an organization focused on supporting a thriving ecosystem on the Gulf Coast. Sage Michael is a local and established community activist and organizer working to better the quality of life in his hometown of New Orleans. His work is centered on community building with those underrepresented and most impacted and building coalitions to ensure community decision-making and a just transition in the process moving forward. His commitment and leadership are shown through his advocacy to restore and reopen historic Lincoln Beach.    Healthy Gulf: https://healthygulf.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gg5lucV1j5M

Heidi Irwin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the Victims’ Assistance Department of the Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office. This department is designed to aid victims and their family members as they move through the criminal justice system. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Heidi provides emotional support services to aid in the healing and rehabilitation process for victims.   Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office: https://lpda.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PWMdkpShjnQ

Julie Lively is the Executive Director of Louisiana Sea Grant, an extension of the National Sea Grant College Program, located at LSU, that works to promote stewardship of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of research, education, and outreach. Julie’s research background centers around commercial fisheries, marine chemical cue ecology, crab biology, and marine invasive species. She is Louisiana Sea Grant’s fourth executive director since the program’s establishment in 1968 and the first woman to lead the organization.    Louisiana Sea Grant: https://www.laseagrant.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QBR8p2slwpY

Captain Karla Beck is the Director of Programming and Reentry at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office, as well as the Director of Project COPE, a comprehensive effort to battle opioid addictions in Lafourche Parish. Captain Beck also has a strong background in mental health and crisis care.   Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office: https://www.lpso.net/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BT2YLs9K-dg

Andy Sternad is the Principal & Business Unit Leader at Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. Andy is a leader of Waggonner & Ball’s resilience practice at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban design. He focuses on urban- and building-scale solutions that reveal the character of place and integrate issues of climate, nature, economy, and people. Andy works to build long-term collaborative partnerships between clients, communities, designers, and technical experts.   Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nYjavicsurA

Nicole Bourgeois is a Development Specialist at the Lafourche Parish Brief Therapy Center, a free counseling service launched by the Lafourche Parish Government. This initiative offers eight sessions of behavioral health counseling and therapy services at no cost to all residents of Lafourche Parish. Nicole is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.    Lafourche Parish Government: www.lafourchegov.org   Lafourche Parish Brief Therapy Center: (985) 304-4673   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YDkM3Cd1RXE

Jaime Ramiro Diaz (Rami) is the Urban Design Director at Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. He is also the leader of Waggonner & Ball’s resilience and Living With Water® practice. Rami is a client liaison, senior project designer, and collaboration leader for climate adaptation projects across the country, including the Dutch Dialogues®, Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, Gentilly Resilience District, Norfolk Ohio Creek NDR, and Resilient Hampton.   Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6qYe_Zn9rJg

Dana Honn is the the Executive Chef and Owner of Carmo, a New Orleans-based tropical café with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients and sustainability. The menu is built upon the rich, multi-cultural culinary influences found throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, the Gulf South, and beyond. Dana has also been a longtime advocate for ocean and coastal conservation and restoration, and for the use of sustainably-sourced seafood.   Carmo - https://cafecarmo.com/   Dana Honn - https://danahonn.com/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t-z-WjRQw-I

David Waggonner is the founding principal of Waggonner & Ball, an internationally active architecture and environment practice based in New Orleans. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, David saw an opportunity for New Orleans to reinvent itself as a sustainable city that embraces its lifeblood: water. He championed a process that examines history, soils, biodiversity, infrastructure networks, urban space and habitation, along with the forces of water. This combination serves as a holistic foundation for design, initiated during the Dutch Dialogues®, developed through the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, and now being implemented in multiple projects.   Waggonner & Ball - https://wbae.com/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vyOPPPSBAfI

Jacqueline Richard is the Director of Coastal Studies & GIS Technologies at Nunez Community College, where she has led the program since 2022. She has decades of experience in the field and the classroom studying Louisiana’s disappearing coast. Jacqueline was also recently named among the winners of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s (CRCL) 2024 Coastal Stewardship Awards.   Nunez Community College Coastal Studies Program - https://catalog.nunez.edu/programs/coastal-studies-gis-technology/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YDXaBN8Ca7U

Jessica Dandridge-Smith is the Executive Director for The Water Collaborative, an organization dedicated to urban water management in the Greater New Orleans region. As Executive Director, Jessica focuses on community led adaptation and mitigation as the core to water justice and climate resiliency strategies. Today The Water Collaborative focuses on water management, hazard mitigation, water justice through access, affordability, and quality, and equitable community transformation through blue/green jobs and the renewable economy.   The Water Collaborative - https://www.nolawater.org/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uXC7zGDGeIY

Peter Waggonner is the Public Policy Director for Greater New Orleans, Inc., Southeast Louisiana’s regional economic development organization. His portfolio encompasses infrastructure, insurance, and the environment at local, state, and federal levels. He also manages the Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance (CSFI) and GNO, Inc.’s resilience work.    Greater New Orleans, Inc. - https://gnoinc.org/   Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance - https://csfi.info/   To watch our feature length documentary, On Our Watch, visit: https://youtu.be/hTOl5tMKjZw   For more information and past episodes, visit: https://onourwatch.podbean.com/   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hXV41XhlWws