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New Orleans CREW is the premier commercial real estate association in the Greater New Orleans area for women from all disciplines of commercial real estate.
New Orleans CREW pledges to strive to promote the success of its members by providing opportunities to:
- Develop business through collaborative relationships.
- Expand knowledge of all facets of commercial real estate.
- Improve the business climate of the Greater New Orleans and River Regions.
The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA, Inc.), is a nonprofit membership association dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for black professionals in the accounting, finance and related business professions. Representing more than 200,000 black professionals in these fields, NABA advances people, careers, and the mission by providing education, resources, and meaningful career connections to both professional and student members, fulfilling the principle of our motto: Lifting As We Climb.
The mission of the NABA, Inc. Baton Rouge Chapter is to address the professional needs of its members and to build leaders that shape the future of the accounting and finance profession with an unfaltering commitment to inspire the same in their successors.
We're advancing the core human rights of self-determination and expression for all trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people in Louisiana.
Louisiana Trans Advocates is the first statewide transgender advocacy and social support organization in Louisiana.
Our Statement of Principles:
1. Self-determination and expression for all transgender and gender nonconforming people is a core human right.
2. Trans liberation depends on the empowerment of intersecting communities that experience systemic oppression, especially people of color, the poor, immigrants, people with disabilities, and women and femme-identified people.
3. All trans people, regardless of individual socioeconomic status should have an opportunity to participate fully in organizational activities, especially those in under-resourced, isolated, and rural communities throughout the state.
The 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, LTD. is a non-profit organization through which African-American males step forward and assume roles of community leadership, responsibility and guidance. The organization serves as a catalyst to empower youth to individually and collectively reach their full potential by maximizing the resources that foster and enhance achievement in education and economic and community development.
The mission of 100 Black Men of Metropolitan Baton Rouge, Ltd. is to give substance to a shared vision which fosters and develops model programs that build community by enhancing lives of our African-American youth.
Rusty es un abogado litigante con experiencia en casos civiles y penales. Ha manejado casos civiles relacionados con lesiones personales, muerte por negligencia, productos defectuosos, brutalidad policial, negligencia médica, disputas contractuales y litigios comerciales. Ha recuperado millones de dólares para sus clientes.Ha manejado casos criminales desde conducir bajo la influencia hasta cargos de asesinato y todo lo demás, incluidos cargos por drogas, cargos por violencia doméstica, robo y fraude a Medicare. Rusty es el autor de Surviving the Louisiana Criminal Justice System, un libro que analiza algunas de las preguntas más comunes que sus clientes le han hecho a lo largo de los años.
Randy B. Ligh is a former employee in the Parish Attorney's office for the City of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge where he held positions as Assistant City Prosecutor in the Office of the City Prosecutor, as Assistant Parish Attorney in the Code Enforcement Section, and as Assistant Parish Attorney and Special Assistant Parish Attorney in the Litigation Section.
In 2008 Randy was promoted to the position of Director of the Collections Division where he supervised and was responsible for the collection of funds owed to the City-Parish. Under his leadership, the City-Parish collected subrogation for damage to City-Parish property, worker's compensation payments/liens, outstanding and delinquent funds for occupational license and sales tax matters, EMS transports, unpaid parking tickets, condemnation liens and weed liens. Within the duties of the Director of Collections, Randy handled the litigation of the Division, which included collection matters on behalf of the City-Parish and where the City-Parish was named as a defendant, as well as significant tax obligations and included contractual matters where money was involved. Randy worked closely with the City-Parish Finance Department in this role, and served as their main legal advisor, as well as had significant interaction with the Baton Rouge police department, Department of Public Works, Baton Rouge Fire Department, and EMS.
During and after his career in local government, Randy managed a part-time private practice where he represented clients in multiple areas including personal injury, criminal defense, corporate transactions, wills and estates, and litigation. Some of his clients appeared before various boards of the State of Louisiana. In 2018 he founded the firm of LIGH BOLTON before entering into a partnership with Mary Roper with the formation of ROPER LIGH in 2019.
Randy has an AV preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest attorney peer rating in terms of professional ability and expertise, as well as adherence to the professional standards of conduct and ethics.