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Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Participants
Appendix C: Biographies of Workshop Participants
Pages 97-110
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response coordinator at Christus Schumpert Health System, Shreveport, Louisiana. He leads hospital disaster planning and chairs his hospital's disaster safety team.
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As a transit executive, he has managed numerous multimodal transit agencies including Capital Metro in Austin, Texas; the Africa Transportation Company in Johannesburg, South Africa; and Regional Transit Authority and Transit Man agement of Southeastern Louisiana, Inc., in New Orleans, Louisiana; and many transit agencies in California, including San Diego, Santa Clarita, San Francisco, Oakland, Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, San Jose, Redding, Chico, Victor Valley, Antelope Valley, and Yolo County.
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In 2006, Concordia coordinated the development of the Unified New Orleans Plan, a comprehensive strategy for the redevelopment of the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The process incorporated the work of 12 urban planning firms, 54 community planning district meetings and 3 citywide community congress events, with a combined participation of more than 9,000 New Orleans citizens.
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Since taking office in January 2008, Commissioner Chaney has opened a Mississippi Insurance Department office on the Gulf Coast. He has also spearheaded a wind mitigation program for the Mississippi Gulf Coast region to strengthen homes against hurricaneforce winds and help homeowners realize discounts on their wind insurance premiums.
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He served on the Louisiana Health Care Collaborative, a commission assigned to redesign health care in Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He received his undergraduate degree from Chaminade University of Honolulu and his juris doctorate from Southern Law School.
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More recently, the Mississippi Department of Mental Health awarded his organization a grant to manage a five-partner mental health collaborative to conduct a comprehensive assessment and provide a culturally appropriate intervention program to address the psychosocial impacts of the Gulf oil spill on residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast region.
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She is also a founding and associate member of UNO's Center for Hazard Assessment, Response and Technology. She has published on a variety of community issues, including several manuscripts outlining community responses to domestic violence, and more recently, several articles focusing on Louisiana coastal communities' response to coastal erosion.
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Before serving in this position, he was captain of Harrison County Sheriff's Department for 6 years. Mary Claire Landry Mary Claire Landry is the director for Domestic Violence Programs at the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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Stephen Murphy A native of south Georgia and graduate of the University of Georgia, Stephen Murphy moved to New Orleans only 10 weeks before Hurricane Katrina to continue graduate school studies in public health at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine after earning an M.B.A. in health care manage ment at Mercer University in Georgia.
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Her first postcollege role was handling public relations for the Mississippi Sea Wolves professional hockey team in Biloxi. She then joined the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce, where she left as executive director after 5 years to take over the interim post at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce, which serves nearly 1,000 members.
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Travelers is one of the leading providers of property insurance in the United States; with the number 2 market share in commercial property and number 5 market share in homeowners.
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Rochman managed federal communications for the Alliance of American Insurers, worked for the Insurance Information Institute, for a public health organization dedicated to preventing drunk driving, at an advertising agency, and for a global insurance brokerage. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Ms.
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NORA is a quasipublic entity, whose mission includes the alleviation of blight, the redevelop ment of residential and commercial properties (including nearly 5,000 properties acquired by the state of Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina) , and the imple mentation of crucial public projects.
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In addition to his public service, he is a businessman, founding BFS Services, a construction and landscaping company, in 1985 and becoming a partner of Computer and Technology Support Services in 1992. Compelled to return to politics 12 years later, he was once again elected to the city council as the only African American member shortly before Katrina struck, and has since founded the East Biloxi Coordination, Relief, and Redevelopment Agency (later named the Hope Community Development Agency)
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