Isaac Knapper is currently the head trainer of the Crescent City Boxing Gym in New Orleans, LA. Isaac has a deep passion to help young kids avoid the psychological beat down and suffering that he experienced in the Department of Corrections. To that end, he volunteers to mentor and coach young boxers helping to keep them off the streets and away from violence. Boxing has been at the center of Isaac’s life. He was a Golden Gloves Champion in LA at the age of 15.

Margarita Jover received a Master of Architecture degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1995. Together with Iñaki Alday, she founded aldayjover architecture and landscape in 1996 in Barcelona, Spain. The multidisciplinary, research-based practice focuses on innovation, and is particularly renowned for its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers, in which the natural dynamics of flooding become part of the public space. Margarita is tenured Professor of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans.

A Brooklyn, New York native, Elizabeth Johnson is a break-out author with a very promising writing careerahead of her. Signed with PlaTy Multimedia & Publishing, Elizabeth is introducing her first work to theworld of children’s books on May 16, 2021. Her debut title, Just Like my Dad, is co-authored with thealready well-established author, Tyrell Plair. Elizabeth is currently the Director of Marketing with PlaTyMultimedia and Publishing.

As son of co-founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, Ben Jaffe has lived his whole life with the rhythm of the French Quarter pulsing through his veins. Raised in the company of New Orleans’ greatest musicians, Ben returned from his collegiate education at Oberlin College in Ohio to play with the group and assume his father’s duties as Director of Preservation Hall. Today he serves as Creative Director for both PHJB and the Hall itself, where he has spearheaded such programs as the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund.

Howard Hunter is a native of New Orleans and a history teacher 38 years. He has published articles on New Orleans and the Civil War for both academic and general audiences. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Society. Tearing Down the Lost Cause is his first book.

Laura-Zoë Humphreys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. She is the author of Fidel between the Lines: Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema(Duke UP, 2019). Fidel between the Lines combines ethnography, archival research, and close reading to examine the changing dynamics of public debate, censorship, and allegory in Cuba in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dr. Humphreys has also researched and written about digital media piracy, urban sociability, and K-Pop in Cuba.

Dr. Ilana M. Horwitz is an Assistant Professor and the Fields-Rayant Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Department of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. In her research, Dr. Horwitz takes a sociological approach to examine how people’s religious upbringing, race, ethnicity, social class, and gender shape their life course, especially their educational experiences. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Conversation, Inside Higher Education, and Contexts Magazine. Prior to academia, Dr.

Lieutenant General Honoré is a native of Lakeland, Louisiana. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Vocational Agriculture upon graduation from Southern University and A&M College in 1971.

Kelly Harris-DeBerry earned her B.A. from Kent State University and her M.F.A in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Cave Canem. Most recently her publishing credits include: 400yrs: The story of Black people in poems written from love 1619–2019; I Am New Orleans Anthology; Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop; Angles in the Wilderness: Young and Black in New Orleans and Beyond; and several articles in 64 Parishes Magazine.