Katie Hunter-Lowrey

Vera Louisiana works to dismantle the systems that punish and harm and build institutions that deliver safety and justice in New Orleans and Louisiana.

Nola to Angola organizes an annual bicycle ride to Angola Prison to support and fund the Cornerstone Builders Bus Project, which connects families to their incarcerated loved ones. We also organize a shorter social justice ride around New Orleans to highlight the work of community partners fighting mass incarceration. We educate people about the ways in which mass incarceration works in tandem with other systems of oppression, such as poverty and white supremacy, to disproportionately harm members of our communities. We do this through collective organizing, as well as leading training rides and educational events. We prioritize partnering with organizations led by formerly-incarcerated people and people of color, and work to support their leadership on prison justice issues. www.nolatoangola.org.

Louisiana Survivors for Reform (LSR) is a coalition of crime survivors, homicide victims’ families, and organizations creating change in the criminal justice system. A project of the Promise of Justice Initiative, we are a group with a multitude of interests, identities, and backgrounds united in the conviction that any approach to reform needs to include the voices of crime survivors and others directly impacted by the current system. Since 2018, LSR has been organizing through policy, education, and community. We believe that too often, victims are silenced or ignored, and recognize that harm and healing exist on a continuum. We believe the voice of every survivor should be heard and that the primary focus of reform should be supporting all impacted individuals and communities, investment in crime prevention strategies, and restorative justice that is trauma-informed.

JPNSI is a Community Land Trust (CLT) and housing rights organization committed to creating sustainable, democratic, and economically just neighborhoods and communities in New Orleans. For over 10 years we've worked to increase the range of affordable housing options available to low and moderate income residents and advocating for housing justice across the city. Our mission is to transform unjust housing policies, discriminatory practices, and inequitable development schemes by engaging in strategies that create permanently affordable housing, advance tenant rights, expand housing security, and uphold equitable housing patterns and land use planning.​​​

New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling* hosted raucous performance-based competitions that empowered women and provided monetary support for women-focused projects. *As a collective we resist and reject sexism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, classism and racism.

Constituent services and community liaison.

Concentration in Peace & Justice with a Minor in Spanish