Each proposal was carefully considered by the review committee to ensure a robust schedule of sessions with presentations from scholars in their respective fields. For more information on a session, please click below.

• “Leaving no Child Behind in the Wake of Katrina: Conceptualizing Quality Education for All”—Selena Cozart, U.Va. (panel)
• “Hurricane Katrina: A Metaphor for the Unfinished Agenda of Social and Educational Opportunity in Urban Schooling”—Paul Green, UCLA, Riverside
• “In Katrina’s Wake: Toward an Effective Antiracism in the College Classroom”—M. Noelle N’Diaye, Morehead State University
• “Black Catholic Schools and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment”—Paul Green, UCLA, Riverside

• “The Design Impacts of Katrina: Making Visible Some of the Invisible”—Nisha Botchwey, U.Va. (panel)
• “Service Learning and Beyond in New Orleans: A Panel Discussion”—Catherine S. Neale, Habitat for Humanity (panel)

• Righting an Unrightable Wrong: Confronting Poverty Through Truth and Reconciliation in New Orleans”—E. Franklin Dukes, U.Va. (panel)
• “Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution after Hurricane Katrina”—Brandon Garrett (U.Va.), Tetlow, Tulane University
• “Drowning Without a Hurricane: Race and Class After Katrina”—Dirk Philipsen, Virginia State University
• “Politics and Race in Post-Katrina New Orleans”—Brian Brox, Tulane University (panel)
• “From the Ground Up: A CED Perspective on the Redevelopment of New Orleans East”—T. Linh Ho, UCLA (panel)

• “Therapeutic Cultural Competence in theory and Practice following Hurricane Katrina: Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Disaster Relief”—Benson Cooke, University of the District of Columbia
• Community at Risk: An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the population of New Orleans”—John Pine, Louisiana State University (panel)
• “Into the Gap—Medical Relief—Health Care in new Orleans After Hurricane Katrina”—Marcus Martin, U.Va. (panel)

• “When Levees Break: An African American Studies Perspective on Katrina”—Dr. Marilyn Mobley, George Mason University (panel)
• “The Possible Role of Discrimination in the Helping Response after Hurricane Katrina”—Donald A. Saucier, Kansas State University
• “Poverty, Welfare, and Race: Implications for Katrina’s Victims”—Ingrid Whitaker, Old Dominion University (panel)
• “Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Black Children”—Thelma Young, University of North Florida

• Hurricane Katrina: Racial Implications of Organizational Precursors, Responses, and Lessons Learned”—Laquita Blockson, College of Charleston (panel)
• “Space Matters: Residential Segregation, Social Capital and the Opportunity in New Orleans”—Greg Fairchild, Darden panel
• “Manna From Heaven: How to Build a Robust Minority Business Sector in New Orleans”—Greg Fairchild, U.Va

• “Katrina as Case Study in Social Justice and the Complexity of Decision-Making in Large-Scale Sociotechnical Systems”—Kathryn Neely, U.Va. (panel)
• “Mississippi; Rebuilding, Recovery, and Race”—Jim Sullenger, Restoration Point Foundation (panel)