Project Collaborator
Rebecca Snedeker
Biography
Rebecca Snedeker is an artist and public scholar from Bvlbancha/New Orleans and collaborator in the Gulf South Open School and Anthropocene Commons. She has produced documentary films (1996–2010); coauthored with Rebecca Solnit Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (2011–14); and directed the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University (2015–24), where she cultivated research, teaching, and programming that focused on the Gulf South bioregion and its relationship to the world, particularly in the areas of Africana, Indigenous, and Environmental Studies. A recipient of an Emmy Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Snedeker is dedicated to creating place-based, interdisciplinary, and immersive learning experiences that support humans in understanding and caring for one another and our surroundings.