EPA Media Alert (HQ): Nov. 18: Administrator Jackson Continues First Official Visit to New Orleans

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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* 

November 17, 2009 

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****Updated with details on Wednesday's Events**** 

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*Nov. 18: Administrator Jackson Continues First Official Visit to New Orleans * 

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*WASHINGTON* - Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, a New Orleans native, will continue her first visit to the city as EPA Administrator on Wednesday, November 18. 

 

On Wednesday, Administrator Jackson will join representatives from local non-profits to tour sustainable development projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. From there, the administrator will travel to Southern University for a roundtable with students and professors. Following that Administrator Jackson will tour a site where green homes will be constructed in Pontchartrain Park. Finally, Administrator Jackson will speak at a Dean's Colloquium at Tulane University, her alma mater. All of these events
 are open press.

 

*_Wednesday, November 18_* 

 

*9:30 a.m. CST             *Administrator Jackson tours Lower Ninth Ward sustainable development projects** 

                                   Tour will start at 409 Andry St 

                                   New Orleans, La. 

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*12:30 p.m. CST            *Administrator Jackson participates in roundtable with Southern University students and professors** 

*                                   *Southern University 

                                   Lake Campus, Building 41C 

                                   6801 Press Drive 

                                   New Orleans, La. 

 

*1:15 p.m. CST             *Administrator Jackson tours site of future green homes in Pontchartrain Park 

                                   Tour will start at 5562 Park Drive 

                                   New Orleans, La. 

 

*2:30 p.m. CST             *Administrator Jackson Speaks at Tulane Dean's Colloquium* * 

Tulane University 

Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center 

1229 Broadway Street 

New Orleans, La. 

 

Administrator Lisa Perez Jackson grew up in Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. The Administrator went to St. Gabriel the Archangel grammar school and St. Mary's Dominican High School, where she was valedictorian of the class of '79. She also graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University. Her mother and several members of her family were displaced from the city when their house was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. 

 

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