Diana Boylston

Fourteen-year-old Derricka doesn't want to go back to the New Orleans housing project where she lived before Katrina. Nor do her grandparents, who raised her in the St. Bernard complex. But on the news, I watch as politicians and activists suggest that we all work together to reopen them. ... more

I had to leave my students behind. Much of inner city New Orleans is filled with indigent or low-income families with no transportation. These people didn't stay in the city, for the most part, because they were "attached" to their homes. Most have little to attach to and no money or means to leave. ... more