Current Graduate Students

2012 Cohort

Clare Cannon
ccannon3@tulane.edu

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Clare loves to rock climb, bike, and have coffee with friends. She received her B.A. from Scripps College of the Claremont Consortium. While there she earned Honors for her thesis, “American Nightmare, Twilight of Dreams”, for which she also won the Edward A. White Award for excellence in American studies. Clare continued her academic career at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she earned her M.A. in Social Ethics, Depth Psychology and Religion. While at Union, she helped to found the Edible Churchyard, developing an urban garden and accompanying curriculum of food justice and ecological issues. She graduated with a credit with distinction for her master's thesis, Adventures in Garbage, Seeking the deep in things. Most recently, Clare won the Hoffman Award for excellence in the study of German language and literature at Hunter College, City University of New York. Clare is excited to begin her doctoral work at Tulane University in the City, Culture, and Community program. She researches industrial and household waste streams, garbage issues, and systems of oppression. Her academic interests include urban studies, psychology, culture, history, philosophy, and the arts.

James Hamilton
jhamilt4@tulane.edu

Originally from Denver, Colo., James graduated with honors from the University of Colorado at Denver with a Bachelor's degree in history. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he also worked as an educator in public schools and founded a GED program through the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. With CCC, he will focus his studies on the effects of inequality on education and human development.

After graduating, he moved to New Orleans through the Teach for America program and was a founding staff member of Andrew H. Wilson Charter School, where he was recognized as a regional representative and national finalist for the Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to traditional teaching responsibilities, James also founded a Saturday school for struggling students, mentored new teachers, and addressed audiences throughout the New Orleans community about the importance of education reform. He went on to work in teacher development with Teach for America as a Program Director and was a founding staff member of Lagniappe Academies of New Orleans. He currently works at KIPP Believe College Prep as a middle school teacher. In addition to teaching, James is a performer with the New Movement comedy theater, an instructor with AP Comedy, an organization that teaches improv comedy to high school students, and has worked in partnership with Atlantis Books, an internationally renowned bookshop and publishing house based out of Santorini, Greece. He will focus his studies on the effects of inequality on education and human development.

Jocelyn Horner
jhorner4@tulane.edu

A native of Pittsburgh, Jocelyn is a 2005 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a Bachelor of Philosophy honors degree in Sociology and Urban Studies. She was a 2004 Truman Scholar for the state of Pennsylvania. Jocelyn has lived and worked in Casablanca, Morocco, Niger, and London, where she received her Masters of Science in Urban Geography and Environment from the London School of Economics.

Following graduate school, Jocelyn returned home to Pittsburgh where she worked in the non-profit sector for the past five years, focusing on community grantmaking, youth engagement and education. She has worked as the Community Programs Manager at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Spark Program Manager at The Sprout Fund and the Director of Operations for the Hear Me Project at Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab. In 2011, Jocelyn began her own business as a freelance consultant, specializing in development, communications, public relations and project design. An active member of her community, Jocelyn has served on the Manchester Academic Charter School Board of Trustees, as a Big Sister and career mentor, and a volunteer in the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Emergency Department. When she isn’t working, Jocelyn loves running, reading, hanging out with her parents and taking her dog for hikes in the woods.

Katie Lauve Moon
kmoon1@tulane.edu

Originally from Alexandria, La., Kaite graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Louisiana Tech University in May 2007. In August 2007, she began a Master of Divinity (M.Div.)/Master of Social Work (MSW) dual degree program at Baylor University's School of Social Work and George W. Truett Theological Seminary. In 2009, she was an intern in the counseling department at Bill Logue Juvenile Detention Center in Waco, Texas, and her concentration internship was with Touching Miami with Love in Miami, FL as a community development intern. She earned her MSW with a concentration in Community Development in May 2010 and later graduated with her M. Div. in December 2011.

Katie’s current research primarily focuses on creating a volunteerism model particularly within faith-based organizations that promotes sustainability and health within marginalized communities. Outside of school, Katie is married to Timmy Moon who also graduated with an M. Div. with a concentration in Missions and World Religion from Truett Seminary.

Brad Powers
bpowers1@tulane.edu

Raised in Princeton, N.J, Brad has lived in New Orleans for the past 12 years with his wife and three daughters. His research interest is in exploring the ways in which various market forces and civic institutions can be cultivated, improved and integrated to help restore communities.

He has lived and worked throughout the United States fighting for access to housing, health care, education, and legal representation for those in need. Brad obtained a BA in English from St. Lawrence University and studied for a year in East Africa. He then earned a law degree (JD) cum laude from Vermont Law School (with a summer program at Trinity College, Dublin). After five years as a criminal defense attorney both in state and federal courts, Brad earned a Masters in Law (LLM) from the University of Washington School of Law.

Brad was the founding Executive Director of Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative from January 2006 until his admission into the Tulane CCC program. Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative is a community faith-based revitalization organization working in a low wealth neighborhood of New Orleans. Jericho Road develops high quality, green and physically accessible housing, supports growth of resident led neighborhood associations and uses legal tools to reduce blight. Jericho Road was formed after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2010 Brad completed graduate work as a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center Urban Redevelopment and Excellence and in 2011 completed Stanford Business School’s International Non-profit Leadership Program for Social Innovators. Brad was named one of New Orleans top social entrepreneurs. Recently, New Orleans City council honored Brad twice as one of New Orleans “Men on the Move”. Brad has recently been accepted and will attend a training of internationally based development economic professionals in May at MIT’s Poverty Lab in Cambridge, Mass. The lab focuses on a new method of critical thinking with regard to social science data

2011 Cohort