Rebecca Snedeker is the James H. Clark Executive Director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, where she cultivates and supports research, teaching, and public programming that focus on New Orleans and the Gulf South and this region’s relationship to the world. All of the Center’s work is based on the belief that the more we understand where we are, the more fully we can engage in our democracy and collective destiny. Prior to working at Tulane, Snedeker cultivated a body of narrative non-fiction work, co-authoring Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (University of California Press, 2013) with Rebecca Solnit, and producing several feature documentary films, including Land of Opportunity (ARTE France, 2010), Witness: Katrina (National Geographic Channel, 2010), and By Invitation Only (PBS, 2007), among others. Snedeker graduated from Wesleyan University and served on the Steering Committee of New Day Films. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.