Launched in November 2023, Resilience New Orleans is an organization that advocates for sensible energy and electric policies to best ensure the Crescent City remains a vital place to live and work.
Led by an energy and environmental policy expert and ratepayer advocate Casey DeMoss, the organization seeks to ensure that New Orleans’s has a resilient, reliable and clean power grid and that electricity is affordable to all customers. Resilience New Orleans is a non-partisan and fully-independent 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. Resilience New Orleans accepts contributions, and counts Entergy New Orleans as a supporter. As a 501(c)(4) organization, contributions to Resilience New Orleans are not tax deductible.
Meet our board of directors
Casey DeMoss
DeMoss serves as Executive Director and is a member of the Resilience New Orleans Board. Ms. DeMoss has spent her career solving human health challenges caused by poor environmental practices and policies in a myriad of cultures and countries. As an undergraduate at the University of Texas Austin, she worked with migrant farmworker communities to stop pesticide flyovers contaminating their homes. In the United States Peace Corps living among rural Mayan communities, she learned the value of relationships and listening to community voices. As a Louisiana native, she has worked tirelessly to protect her home, culture, and coastline from damaging wetland and energy policy. Ms. DeMoss has been in the trenches of environmental justice work and has become a progressive energy policy leader both locally and nationally including as the Executive Director of a Louisiana based ratepayer advocacy organization. She is a well-respected public speaker following her successful TEDTalk at the TEDxOilSpill conference. Ms. DeMoss earned her Masters of Public Health in Biostatistics from Tulane University. The accomplishments she is most proud of are being a breast cancer survivor and mother.
Jeffrey Doussan
Jeffrey Doussan, Jr. leads the firm Keller Williams New Orleans, one of the most successful real estate agencies in the Gulf Coast region. Jeffrey’s team helps commercial and residential real estate clients – both domestic and international – secure the right property at a good price. With an in-depth knowledge of the Warehouse District, Uptown, and Old Metairie, Jeffrey’s listings average just a few days on the market. Jeffrey is a seventh-generation New Orleanian, a graduate of Metairie Park Country Day, and Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship. Jeffrey and his wife, Lauren, have two children and are homeowners in Old Metairie. Jeffrey stays active in the New Orleans community.
Chris Homberg
A New Orleans resident and business owner, Chris Homberg Co-owns LookFar Labs, a custom software development company based in the Big Easy. With 25+ years of product management experience, Chris has built tech products for startups to multinational companies, such as Ticketmaster & Live Nation.
Chris excels in managing, conceiving, defining, deploying, and overseeing complex technology products and services. His extensive background includes developing and delivering high-tech products for both startups and established brands across various industries.
He specializes in establishing standardized, repeatable, scalable, and measurable lean product development processes to enhance efficiencies throughout the software development lifecycle. One of his core traits is the ability to identify product-related business opportunities and execute development efforts against core business goals and objectives.
Chris, his wife Jennifer, and their daughter Charlotte moved to New Orleans in 2017, as the couple were avid travelers to New Orleans and wanted to immerse themselves in the people, food, music, and culture.
Chris attended Michigan State University, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising. His family, including two cats and a dog live in the Garden District.