Louisiana Inspired
Louisiana Inspired?is a weekly Sunday feature that focuses on people and organizations in Louisiana who are working toward solving problems and making the world a better place.
The section is published in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Acadiana. If you know of someone or an organization that is doing exceptional work to make Louisiana better, please let us know by emailing us at?lainspired@theadvocate.com.?
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Gina Rossi is a licensed clinical social worker in the Baton Rouge community working in clinical and administrative roles for 30+ years.?
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Every parent knows that a newborn tears through diapers and baby formula. The costs quickly add up for parents, especially those living on financial margins. Tack on inflation and the rising cost of housing, and some parents are faced with difficult decisions: whether to feed and clothe their children or pay for utilities.
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Toward the end of last year, my husband and I were having dinner with another couple. We spontaneously decided to make 2024 our "Year of Count…
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(RNS) — Announcing the results of a new Global Flourishing Study, a consortium of scholars and pollsters led by Gallup said that they found li…
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Whether dealing with social media or unusual office spaces, Jared Lamb does things differently.
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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When Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” in 2015, Muslims, Hindus and other faith leaders joined Christian…
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Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old.
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Three weeks ago, I wrote a column about an old picture frame I bought and how its hidden contents ended up with me speaking at a New Orleans S…
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When Frank and Lisa Vicidomina decided to build a house in Metairie, they leaped into a world of minute details and big decisions with what th…
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When Anna Hingle painted in her home studio, she was a lonesome artist, save for a few online friends. Still, she couldn't tap someone next to…
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The National Park Service, in partnership with the Jefferson National Parks Association, will begin accepting applications for the Lower Missi…
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Paul Soniat walks through the rose garden and past a reflecting pool full of water lilies at the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park. In…
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For the second quarter Louisiana Inspired book club, we have chosen "Rules of Civility" by best-selling author Amor Towles.
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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In the year since the Surgeon General issued the deeply researched report on the?epidemic of loneliness and isolation, I've thought a lot abou…
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Christiaan Mader is editor of The Current, Lafayette's first nonprofit news outlet, which he co-founded in 2018. His work has appeared in The …
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Dealing with a serious illness is all consuming. One nonprofit strives to give people suffering life-altering illnesses a much-needed break.?
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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When it comes to experts on the ancient cultures that once inhabited Louisiana, Diana Greenlee vies for the top of the list.
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It's not a colorful or elegant bird, nor does it sing anything that could be described as pleasant. Its feathers are drab. Its beak droopy, an…
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At one of the first Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Boruch Binyamin attended, a Christian man opened up about how the Bible was of very little h…
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On a crisp morning in February, Gary Salathe and a half-dozen volunteers tramped over a muddy plot of overgrown land in LaPlace, avoiding snak…
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Long before we knew Amor Towles would be in Louisiana for the incredible New Orleans Book Festival, we decided his first novel, "Rules of Civi…
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At 16 years old, Himangini Chauhan became a change maker in Baton Rouge with her organization Geaux Girls STEM, which aims to empower and educ…
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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The 1985 film “Witness” was a surprise hit — part cop thriller, part Amish romance, with a pair of stars in Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis a…
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Even though her downtown Lafayette shop has become the go-to for musicians across the state, Anya Burgess took her time in seeing herself as a businesswoman.
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Perhaps nothing captures the spirit of the Abita Springs Busker Fest more poignantly than the timeless piece created by hometown artist Kimber…
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When Gregory Ravy was growing up in the 1980s in the Fischer Projects, the Algiers high-rise was among the most notorious and deadly of New Or…
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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New Year’s resolutions often come with a renewed investment in making our bodies healthier. Many may take to the newest diet plan or sign up f…
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When a popular Netflix series was filming in New Orleans last year, the crew went beyond the city to recruit a surprised Denton Mallas for an …
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The discussion for the newspaper's first Louisiana Inspired Book Club selection, "Braiding Sweetgrass," by Robin Wall Kimmerer starts at 12:15 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 19.
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Dr. Justin Brown is the director of the Cancer Metabolism Program at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. The overarching mis…
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Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has sp…
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From the second grade through the eighth grade, I had every class with the same 31 people. Even into high school, most of our classes were tog…
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When Katie Frugé and her husband, Lafayette, decided to get married in 2007, they were 21 and did not know what they did not know.
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Since March 2004, Lynn Clark has dedicated her career to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge. First, serving as the development direct…
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The Abita Springs Opry's first show of the spring season on March 16 will feature four different acts making equally distinctive music — but a…
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Utah is seeing a surge in child support payments over the past year, a change that state officials credit in part to a new state law that with…
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After six months in a new home, this week I feel like I finally began to settle into the place. Anyone who has ever packed up all their bits a…
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A new feature of Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana. If your organization has specific volunteer opp…
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Mark Raymond Jr. knows how it feels to be left on your own. In 2016, the high-achieving former broadcast engineer was at the peak of his caree…
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Dr. James Ammons, chancellor of Southern University of New Orleans, says that he has found his calling.
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When Alecia Bergeron retired six years ago, she wasn’t looking to start a new career, and she certainly wasn’t expecting any awards.
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Editor's Note: This story, written by Chris Winters at YES! Magazine,?is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a no…
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Andrew Ward, a veteran and the founder of Acadiana Veterans Alliance, wants to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder and help end veteran suic…
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While volunteering to make the world a better place is important, the value of recognizing and pursuing the big and small things that inspire …
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When an infant’s common cold spiraled into a life-threatening situation, a first-of-its-kind surgery in Louisiana led to a happy ending.
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Dr. Karen Roden's transition from oncologist to theologian?was seamless. After 31 years as a physician, she earned a graduate degree at Asbury…
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One summer day, when I was 15, my dad and I drove to?the first Toyota dealership in the region. It was in Carthage, Mississippi, a little town…
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In his childhood New Orleans neighborhood, Larry Irvin figured out early that there were two, maybe three, paths to success – football, hip-ho…
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When Diane Baker looks out over her Lafayette yard, she sees not just an abundance of native plants but a vast, and varied, array of wildlife.…
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Camille Manning-Broome is recognized internationally for her expertise in resilience and adaptation planning. Her leadership on issues of land…