Alive in Truth

The New Orleans Disaster Oral History & Memory Project

Alive in Truth is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort to record oral and written history about the lives of displaced New Orleanians, in their own words.

The project is founded and coordinated by New Orleans native Abe Louise Young. She is a nationally-awarded poet who's also been a Fellow for the Project in Interpreting the Texas Past, the Danish-American Dialogue on Human Rights, and the Jewish Women's Archive (collecting oral history of Jewish activists in New Orleans.)

The project is supported by generous friends, volunteer interviewers, therapists, transcribers, photographers, and consultants.