Now that Mardi Gras’s party is over, our city is left scrambling to care for its residents who have some of the worst health indicators and toxic environments in the country to begin with. In response, though, as always, people are coming together to take care of each other.
Author: Jayeesha Dutta
Jayeesha Dutta is a tri-coastal, nearly tri-lingual Bengali-American interdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer and pop-ed facilitator. She is a co-founding member of Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative and serves on the national steering committee for the Climate Justice Alliance, galvanizing voices and experiences from across the Gulf South to the Global South working towards a "Just Transition" for our people and the planet.