In the nine years Sandra Lindquist has been at the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, she has developed multiple community-wide events and organizations that benefit the region and seen the chamber’s membership grow from 500 members in 2011…
Anne Rolfes’ mission, as she sees it, is to provide a complete picture of Louisiana’s petrochemical industry. “I was born and raised in Lafayette, so I grew up surrounded by the jobs, the economic benefits the industry brings,”…
In 2015, 10 years into its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was facing a different kind of problem — far too many of the city’s youth (ages 16 to 24) were neither working nor in school. “We…
A native New Orleanian, Emery Whalen began her work in the culinary world as a hostess at Restaurant August in 2010 and worked her way up in the Besh Restaurant Group. Three years ago, Whalen teamed with chef Brian…
A native of Canada, Melissa Sawyer first came to New Orleans as a teacher with Teach for America. After leaving for a few years to earn a master’s degree in education at Harvard University with a focus on urban…
If New Orleans was a nail polish color, what color would it be? There’s obviously no way you could pick just one, which is why Native Nail Polish has been putting out about a dozen shades a year…
If New Orleans was a nail polish color, what color would it be? There’s obviously no way you could pick just one, which is why Native Nail Polish has been putting out about a dozen shades a year…
