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Brian has spent his life weaving stories to make sense of the past, present and people. As a kid in post-industrial Pittsburgh, he grappled with the feeling that the not-too-distant past was better.
As a DJ in New York’s East Village, he learned to create space for all sorts of people to speak their truths on the air.
As Director of the Louisiana Humanities Center, Brian put together programs, traveling exhibitions and publications as a way to repair and renew dialogue in post-Katrina New Orleans.
During his decade-plus tenure at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Brian served as publisher of 64 Parishes, LEH’s award-winning quarterly and New Orleans and the World: 1718–2018, an anthology commissioned by the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.
His first book, New Orleans Boom and Blackout, explores the conflict, ambitions and secret histories of post-Katrina New Orleans as it prepared for the 2013 Super Bowl.
Brian brings to Mass Humanities his conviction that this moment in time calls for the humanities more than ever.
Brian tells, shares, and reimagines stories from his home in Leverett. Read his newsletter.
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Northampton, MA 01060
