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Action New Orleans was founded in 2018 by New Orleans residents and is led by our Chairperson, Maggie Carroll. After the flooding that devastated her neighborhood in 2005, Maggie worked alongside then president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, LaToya Cantrell. She ran a grassroots marketing campaign for the recovery effort and instituted a “block captain” support system to identify and assist residents attempting to return to the Broadmoor area. Maggie worked to nurture partnerships with Broadmoor’s many public and private partners including the Clinton Global Initiative, Shell Oil, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Carnegie Corporation of NY. In January of 2015, Mrs. Carroll was elected president of the BIA. In 2017 and 2021, she served as campaign manager for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s winning election and re-election campaigns.
Our mission is focused on helping the Cantrell administration address challenges that have been neglected for generations in the City of New Orleans. Action New Orleans raises awareness and pushes for change on issues that impact the whole New Orleans communities, including advocacy both here and at the state capitol on issues ranging from LGBTQ+ rights to gun safety and from women's health to infrastructure repair. Throughout the pandemic, Action New Orleans has worked to spread awareness about COVID-19 safety practices and vaccines.
Mayor Cantrell arrived in New Orleans in 1990 as a student at Xavier University. After graduation, she and her husband, Jason, bought a home in the Broadmoor neighborhood, where they would raise their daughter, RayAnn. As the President of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, Cantrell would go on to make her neighborhood an international model for disaster recovery. She was elected to the City Council in 2012. On May 7, 2018, Mayor Cantrell was sworn in as the first female Mayor of New Orleans, just in time to celebrate the city’s tricentennial. Mayor Cantrell won re-election on Nov. 13, 2021, with 65% of all votes cast.
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