Eve Abrams
Eve Abrams first fell in love with stories listening to her grandmother tell them; it’s been an addiction ever since.
Eve is a radio producer, writer, audio documentarian, and educator. Her work airs on WWNO, as well as on national programs such as the Tavis Smiley Show, Studio 360, The World, and This American Life. Her writing is published in the 2010 collection Where We Know: New Orleans as Home, as well as in Fourth Genre, Wesleyan Magazine, and the forthcoming New Orleans atlas, Unfathomable City. She is also the co-author of the book Preservation Hall.
Eve has taught in public and charter schools, both in New Orleans and New York City, and currently teaches writing at the Waldo Burton School and an audio workshop at Tulane University.
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The New Orleans Family Justice Center Alliance is a partnership of agencies dedicating to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault and... -
Stand For Children educates and organizes parents, teachers and communities to demand excellent schools. Up a flight of stairs in an airy meeting room... -
For 14 years, Gert Town Community Development Center has been instrumental in helping to enhance the total quality of life for residents in the Gert... -
In May, vandals defaced the new, gussied-up St Roch Market, spray-painting "YUPPIE = BAD" and breaking all of the windows. And last month, when actor... -
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has regained roughly 79 percent of its population. But that doesn’t mean it... -
The city has a reputation for music, food and fun. But it's also a land with an economic history rooted in the domestic slave trade that tore families apart. Now, its legacy sits below the surface. -
There’s learning to play music in the school band, and then there’s learning to play music on the street — or the bandstand — from working musicians. In... -
Friends of Lafitte Corridor seeks to revitalize the Lafitte Corridor by working to build, program and promote the Lafitte Greenway as a great public... -
Covenant House New Orleans is a safe haven for homeless and at-risk youth. “Other people been having control of my life all my life. I was a victim of... -
Most Americans hear the phrase “slave trade” and picture ships sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, with captured Africans chained inside, terrorized and...
