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Elena Pinsky
Elena Pinsky, from Silver Spring, MD, earned a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, with a major in Anthropology, and a minor in Spanish. While in college, she served on the planning committee for the Black Jewish Freedom Seder, and participated in the Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative to engage Jewish life on campus. After spending a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Elena received a grant to return to the city to conduct research for her senior thesis. In her position at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC), an agency which seeks to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area, Elena helps identify opportunities to instate fair housing practices in the rebuilding process and develops outreach activities to educate the greater New Orleans community about GNOFHAC's services.

Biking Through This ‘Hood

Nov 22nd, 2010 by Elena Pinsky | 0

I’ve yet to officially ask my father’s permission, but I’d like to add a chapter to his book, Biking through the ‘Hoods, a recently self-published compilation of his explorations by bicycle in fifty American cities. It is a detailed volume to be sure, but New Orleans was never one of his destinations, so perhaps I [...]

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