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Select work for New Orleans Public Radio:

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Fixing Claiborne — the highway that split a Black neighborhood — could come down to 2 proposals

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Opposite: Louis Charbonnet III, outside the Charbonnet Funeral Home, with the Claiborne Expressway in view. Photo by me.

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A vote could tear down Algiers bike lanes, leaving bicyclists worried about future road safety

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Opposite: A protected bike lane on MacArthur Boulevard in Algiers. Photo by me. 

Evacuating New Orleans: New plans account for rapidly intensifying storms, but are they enough?

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Opposite: An "Evacuspot," or pick up point for City Assisted Evacuation. Photo by me.

 

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Select work as Southerly's Gulf Coast Correspondent: 

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After hurricanes, it’s harder than ever for Lake Charles’ Black residents to cast a ballot 

 

Supported by Pulitzer Center; re-published by The Current and Louisiana Illuminator

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Opposite: early voting in Lake Charles. Photo by Katie Sikora.

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They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic 

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Supported by Pulitzer Center; co-published with The Hechinger Report; re-published by Louisiana Illuminator.

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Opposite: Lisa Morgan, a high school teacher in Lake Charles.

Photo by Katie Sikora.

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‘It’s just a vicious cycle’: Evictions, homelessness surge in southwest Louisiana after hurricanes 

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Supported by Pulitzer Center; re-published by The Current and Louisiana Illuminator.

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Opposite: Sasha Miller, a single mother in Lake Charles who became unhoused as a result of the hurricanes. Photo by Katie Sikora.

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Field Notes: How we reported our series on Hurricane Laura recovery 

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Opposite: Me reporting in Lake Charles, October 2020. Photo by Katie Sikora.

Louisiana’s new hurricane survivor sheltering program could be a model for the future 

 

Re-published by the Louisiana Illuminator and the Houma Courier

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Opposite: A base camp shelter in Montegut, October 2021. Photo by me.

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Without federal recognition, coastal tribes struggle to access FEMA aid 

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Co-reported and co-published with the Houma Courier

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Opposite: Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar and Emily Torrey discuss plans to create resources that will empower tribal members and residents to properly document storm damage, November 2021. Photo by Kezia Setyawan.

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Other longform journalismessays & projects:

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Mutual Aid Through Food: Community Care Networks in New Orleans, an oral history project for the Southern Foodways Alliance

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Be for a Blessing, The Oxford AmericanSummer/Fall 2020 issue

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How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor, Powerlines Project (co-published by Scalawag Magazine, Southerly Magazine, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University).

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Two Houses on the Eatonton-Milledgeville RoadThe Bitter Southerner

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The South's Ellis Island, The Bitter Southerner, featured in the The Bitter Southerner Reader: Volume 4

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Old Bridge, New CliquesDown East Magazine

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Knowing Phyllis AustinDown East Magazine 

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Descendant, Jewish Literary Journal

 

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