Rising Tide 9 set for Sept. 13 at Xavier University
 

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Rising Tide, the bloggers' conference that began in summer 2006 one year after Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, will hold its 9th edition Sept. 13 at Xavier University.

This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Andre Perry,*founding dean of the College of Education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and former associate director of the Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education at Loyola University. Among this year's panels:*Using Mobile Devices to Uncover Seemingly Lost Historical Memory of the Confederacy, Leprosy, and White Supremacy in New Orleans;*Building Capacity in Marginalized Communities;*Saga at Treme: The Story of How A Quest for Personal Resilience Exposed Incompetence and Waste in Government; and*Religion in Post-Katrina New Orleans.

Tickets for the all-day event are $10 (available here).? [ Read more ]

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