World: United States: New Orleans: Walidah Imarisha

Walidah Imarisha is a poet and an independent journalist who works with Philly-based prisoner family organizing group The Human Rights Coalition, AWOL Magazine, and is part of the poetry dua Good Sista/Bad Sista (www.poetryofthepage.com).

She can be reached at walidahi(at)hotmail.com. Walidah went down to New Orleans for a week in October as a volunteer and journalist, and is working on the documentary Finding COmmon Ground that she shot while down there.