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Sinews in the Cypress: Our Year in Review

In this installment of Sinews in the Cypress, we explore the environmental rollercoaster of a year that was 2021 in New Orleans. We will be joined by Logan Burke, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Aron Chang, an urban designer, co-lead at the Water Leaders Institute, and member of the Civic Studio … Continued

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AAPI Rising: Soul Care

Community Medicine & Mindfulness Meditation As part of our AAPI Rising series, we’d like to invite you to join VAYLA’s end-of-year community check-in. Our Executive Director, Jacqueline Thanh, MSW, will lead a meditation for us to turn our attention within. After another long year of complex grief across our diasporic community, we are holding space … Continued

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Sinews in the Cypress: New Orleans in a More Uncertain World

Join VAYLA as we explore how climate change is impacting our community and making life more uncertain in our city. In this installment of Sinews in the Cypress guest speaker series, we bring in Julia Kumari Drapkin to discuss extreme weather in New Orleans. Julia is the CEO and founder of ISeeChange, an award winning climate change … Continued

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