Jeffery Darensbourg of the Atakapa-Ishak
Bio
Jeffery Darensboug (Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette) is a writer, public speaker, tour guide, language activist, and board member for multiple non-profits based in Bulbancha, the original name for “New Orleans.” He is an enrolled member and tribal councilperson of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas, an historically important and federally-unrecognized tribal nation. Recently he was a writer-in-residence at A Studio in the Woods, a campus of Tulane University.
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Interviewer
In collaboration with Ida Aronson, Angela Comeaux, and Hali Dardar
In collaboration with Ida Aronson, Hali Dardar, and Becky Thomas Meziere
In collaboration with Ida Aronson, Scierra LaGarde, and Hali Dardar
In collaboration with Jessica Parfait, Ida Aronson, and Hali Dardar
In collaboration with Ida Aronson, Hali Dardar, and John Mayeux