What was the situation like in the Isle de Jean Charles and why did the federal and state governments decide to support relocation of this community a decade or so ago?

Yeah, so I'm going to start with this bigger picture of Louisiana, state of Louisiana, which Louisiana has the highest rate of wetland loss in the contiguous U.S.

So the reasons for these losses are Amanda Sohl- inclusive and both exact exacerbated by climate change so first you've got relative sea level rise, which means that, at the same time as gulf.

Amanda Sohl- seawater is water is rising on the land itself is sinking, so the the impacts are amplified.

thousands of miles of exploratory oil and gas canals let saltwater into places where there had been none, and the plants and trees whose roots need fresh water to keep them alive were holding the land together, washed away.

Then you have the Mississippi River levees, which were built mostly after the great flood in 1927.

And these do mostly a great job of protecting cities, but it straight jacketed the river and 200 million tons of sediment that had been building the Delta for 7,000 years are now shooting off the continental shelf.

I mean, can you respond to that? What do you make of that characterization? And I mean, how, from your understanding, how do people feel about the relocation now, now that it is in the rearview mirror, so to speak?

The schedule is

not going to make sense.

Did you dance at GCU? I did.

So I double degreed.

I got a degree in dance.

Yes.

But I got obviously my support from my family and friends was overwhelming always.

Now talk about your experience with that.