Wizbang reports that:

“…[to] oversee arguably the largest business and civil engineering project ever undertaken is a social worker who has no apparently applicable job skills.

Below is an excerpt of the resume of one of the people who will head the rebuilding commission (with annotations by Wizbang):

Barbara Major is a community organizer and trainer with over twenty years experience in many local, national, and international community development efforts. This work includes everything from nurturing leadership development efforts [What? ed] within local communities to assisting institutions in developing strategies to de-institutionalize racism. [Both useful skills when building a city. -ed]

Originally trained in social work, Barbara is a native of New Orleans. Her home base is in the St. Thomas/Irish Channel area where she formerly served as the chair of the community driven St. Thomas/Irish Channel Consortium, a nationally acclaimed model for holistic community and institutional transformation.

She is a core trainer for The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and for Crossroads Ministries where she connects her local organizing to teaching anti-racism to people and institutions that live in or work with struggling communities. [What does the verb “connects” mean here exactly? ed] Presently, she is the Executive Director of the St. Thomas Health Clinic, a non-profit health clinic providing services to the underserved and uninsured population of the St. Thomas/Irish Channel community.

Like we said. New Orleans is doomed.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 at 11:01 am by Insider and is filed under Brilliant, but uncategorizable. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.