E-mail a friendJuly 11, 2006
Amy Liu, of the Brookings Institution, discusses the new report on the status of rebuilding New Orleans. Nigerian poet and novelist Chris Abani talks about his activism.
Amy Liu
Amy Liu
Amy Liu is Deputy Director and co-founder of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. She was previously the principal aide on priority policies and programs at HUD and has worked for the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and Chicago's Metropolitan Planning Council. Liu is a frequent speaker on the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and southern Louisiana and has co-authored several papers on the post-disaster rebuilding effort.
Chris Abani
Chris Abani
Chris Abani compares activism in Nigeria to activism in the U.S.
Poet and novelist Chris Abani teaches in Antioch University's MFA Program and at the University of California-Riverside. As a teen, he was imprisoned in his native Nigeria when his debut novel was labeled a national security threat. After his release, Abani participated in a guerrilla theater group. His activism led to more arrests and a death sentence. He eventually chose exile, settling first in the UK and then in California. Abani's latest work is a novella, Becoming Abigail.