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.
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.
Caitlin Cain is an urban planner, certified economic developer and serves as the Vice President of LISC and Director of Rural LISC. With over two decades of experience in government, non-profit, and public-private partnerships, Caitlin works to strengthen investment in rural communities by providing knowledge and access to capital, workforce development, broadband and digital inclusion initiatives, disaster, adaptation, resiliency, place-making, and capacity support. Caitlin served as a Fulbright scholar in Perth, AU has served as the CEO of the World Trade Center of New Orleans, and the Director of Economic Development for the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission. She holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s from the University of Toronto.
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.
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