Laura Mellem
@laura_mellem
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Deputy COO @CityMinneapolis, overseeing communications & engagement. Crisis communicator, public servant, cat lady. Views my own.
New Orleans, LA
Joined February 2017
Last week was a BIG one for Minneapolis hotels! The city hosted over 200,000 visitors at events including the American Physical Society March Meeting and the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament and hotel occupancy reached 82.9% (highest weekly occupancy since October 2019!
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BREAKING: Five of Louisiana's largest ports signed an agreement today to make LSU the ports' new academic cyber research partner. Learn more: https://t.co/DuiOeyIT9O
#ScholarshipFirst
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Jason has led community development in St. Bernard for 8 years, running a home-building program on vacant Katrina lots. So proud he’s recognized as rebuilding a housing & tax base AND also offering quality, affordable homes to Black & Latino residents. 😻 https://t.co/AsIt7qlPp5
nola.com
Keyara Staples had driven across the St. Claude Avenue Bridge into St. Bernard Parish precisely once since moving to New Orleans in 2018.
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Happy crane day, #NOLA. These four beauties arrived at @portnola this morning. Details: https://t.co/omTt1gr4C1
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Lots of partner organizations still on the ground doing Hurricane Ida recovery work in #NOLA, and in neighboring parishes that were more severely affected. Help them keep it going by donating directly to these groups or volunteering with them: https://t.co/S1IFL9b5BI.
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Thank you, @AaronLMiller! 💛
Watching from afar today as @laura_mellem is recognized for her hard work and dedication to @nolaready and @CityOfNOLA. Excited to see what the future brings for such a great public servant and emergency manager. Congratulations on your next chapter!
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Way to go #NewOrleans! 2/3 of adults now protected against COVID ... the best way to keep Delta & future variants from taking hold in our community, and maintaining our strong recovery. If you haven’t gone #sleevesupnola yet, it’s time! @nolahealthdept @nolaready @CityOfNOLA
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Great work from the @cityofnola Hazard Mitigation Office, who continues to secure resources to adapt #NOLA properties threatened by climate change & more frequent flooding.
The @cityofnola was awarded $11.6M from @fema to elevate 49 pre-identified homes that have experienced repeated & severe flooding. They'll join the 200+ structures that've received elevation funding since 2017 in our efforts to reduce the risk of damage from future flood events.
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Pretty much, yep.
I’m just trying to imagine what it’s like to be @nolaready, where any given day you might be posting about flooding or pieces of a building falling off or a jaguar on the loose or a sinkhole opening up or whale? shark? guts blocking a street.
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Find a man that texts you as much as NOLA Ready does.
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A behind the scenes look at our volunteer dashboard: tmrw is the only day in Apr that NOLA Ready volunteers are not deployed to support emergency operations in NOLA. We could not be more proud of our volunteers who step up nearly every day to help us respond to this pandemic.
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More @nolaready cat content: https://t.co/QQwF8u0zIz
WATCH - @nolaready brings history back to life with pandemic photographs project. @wdsu
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This was such a fun project & it all started when Leila found a photo of a masked cat during the 1918 pandemic. Thanks for covering, @WDSUMorgan!
WATCH - @nolaready brings history back to life with pandemic photographs project. @wdsu
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┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| psst! ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻|)_() ┻┳| •.•) “Jokes” can be sexual harassment, too. Pass it on. ┳┻|⊂ﾉ ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻|
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For several months I've been sending daily texts to the @nolaready COVID text subscribers. It was depressing to look up the # of cases & deaths each day, esp during the winter surge. This week we started including vaccine %s. You can even see the increase from Tue to Thu! #hope
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No one does vaccines more beautifully than New Orleans! @KreweofZulu all going #sleevesupnola on St. Joseph’s Day. And if you understand that sentence, you’re one of us. @CityOfNOLA @nolaready @nolahealthdept @LADeptHealth
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She's being modest. @ShaliniPersaud built an amazing disaster volunteer program for the @CityOfNOLA in a matter of months. We now have 3,000 volunteers registered to help with vaccines, hurricanes, winter storms & whatever else comes our way. 🖐️Join us:
So proud to be part of this historic effort! Let's get shots in arms. 💉💪🏽
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In an interview last November, New Orleans Homeland Security Director Collin Arnold talks about the enormous role of emergency managers in the @cityofnola #covid response. From the Frontlines series with @visit_thnoc
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Dr. Jennifer Avegno steps into history leading the @nolahealthdept through a global pandemic. From the Frontlines series with @visit_thnoc
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