Welcome

Welcome to Mile Hi New Orleans, a website devoted to sharing the work and resources compiled by our Katrina Research Team at Colorado State University. We are also devoted to showcasing the continuing stories of survivors of Hurricane Katrina who have settled in Colorado, and to the professionals and clergy who have worked to make their lives better along the way. Our mission is thus to contribute to a national as well as regional conversation about the human impact of this disaster and to foster the kinds of understanding that will help us all become more aware of the social and cultural difficulties that people face who experience profound loss and displacement.

The Katrina Research Team at CSU has been engaged in working with survivors of Hurricane Katrina since the first weeks following the disaster. Our funding from the National Science Foundation has made possible a documentary film, several research projects in Colorado and New Orleans with children and parents who were affected by the storm, the thesis research of two outstanding graduate students, and the assistance and research help of talented undergraduates.

We invite you to explore this site, check out the research projects we have going or have completed, the members of the team, the links to other Katrina-related websites and podcasts, the information page with recent books, films, and reports of interest, and the media interviews we have done. We will soon have a page featuring profiles of survivors who have settled in Denver as well as a page devoted to “Denver advocates” of those survivors. We encourage you to contact us if you have any ideas for how we can improve the site or if you have comments or questions you would like us to respond to. [Related to my above comment, here we don’t make mention of links to the “evacuee profiles” or “Denver advocates” pages we had discussed adding… if we keep that sentence above, should we add that language here?]

Last updated: 10/6/2008

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