Laura Mellem

Deputy COO @CityMinneapolis, overseeing communications & engagement. Crisis communicator, public servant, cat lady. Views my own.

[Meet Minneapolis @MeetMinneapolis]

Last week was a BIG one for Minneapolis hotels! The city hosted over 200,000 visitors at events including the American Physical Society March Meeting and the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament and hotel occupancy reached 82.9% (highest weekly occupancy since October 2019!

[LSU @LSU]

BREAKING: Five of Louisiana's largest ports signed an agreement today to make LSU the ports' new academic cyber research partner.

Learn more: https://t.co/DuiOeyIT9O

#ScholarshipFirst

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Jason has led community development in St. Bernard for 8 years, running a home-building program on vacant Katrina lots. So proud he’s recognized as rebuilding a housing & tax base AND also offering quality, affordable homes to Black & Latino residents. 😻

https://t.co/AsIt7qlPp5

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Happy crane day, #NOLA. These four beauties arrived at @portnola this morning.

Details: https://t.co/omTt1gr4C1

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@BobbyHertz @nolaready Thanks, Rob! And thank you for all your hard work during said disasters!!

[NOLA Ready @nolaready]

Lots of partner organizations still on the ground doing Hurricane Ida recovery work in #NOLA, and in neighboring parishes that were more severely affected. Help them keep it going by donating directly to these groups or volunteering with them: https://t.co/S1IFL9b5BI.

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@kristingpalmer @NOLACityCouncil @nolaready Thank you so much for the recognition, Councilmember @kristingpalmer & the @NOLACityCouncil!

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@LaurenN1319 Yes, will need weather info from my two favorite wx-perts @LaurenN1319 & @dmanning283!

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@dmanning283 Starting a new gig leading emergency management & external affairs with @PortNOLA!

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Thank you, @AaronLMiller! 💛

[Aaron Miller @AaronLMiller]

Watching from afar today as @laura_mellem is recognized for her hard work and dedication to @nolaready and @CityOfNOLA. Excited to see what the future brings for such a great public servant and emergency manager. Congratulations on your next chapter!

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@MikeSteeleLA Thank you, Mike!!

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

@AaronLMiller @nolaready @CityOfNOLA Thank you, @AaronLMiller! 💛

[Jennifer Avegno @AvegnoJennifer]

Way to go #NewOrleans! 2/3 of adults now protected against COVID ... the best way to keep Delta & future variants from taking hold in our community, and maintaining our strong recovery. If you haven’t gone #sleevesupnola yet, it’s time! @nolahealthdept @nolaready @CityOfNOLA

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Great work from the @cityofnola Hazard Mitigation Office, who continues to secure resources to adapt #NOLA properties threatened by climate change & more frequent flooding.

[NOLA Ready @nolaready]

The @cityofnola was awarded $11.6M from @fema to elevate 49 pre-identified homes that have experienced repeated & severe flooding. They'll join the 200+ structures that've received elevation funding since 2017 in our efforts to reduce the risk of damage from future flood events.

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Pretty much, yep.

[Cartlyisne @Cartlyisne]

I’m just trying to imagine what it’s like to be @nolaready, where any given day you might be posting about flooding or pieces of a building falling off or a jaguar on the loose or a sinkhole opening up or whale? shark? guts blocking a street.

[Lindsay Alexis ⚜️ @NOLAlexis_9]

Find a man that texts you as much as NOLA Ready does.

[NOLA Ready @nolaready]

A behind the scenes look at our volunteer dashboard: tmrw is the only day in Apr that NOLA Ready volunteers are not deployed to support emergency operations in NOLA. We could not be more proud of our volunteers who step up nearly every day to help us respond to this pandemic.

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

More @nolaready cat content:

https://t.co/QQwF8u0zIz

[Morgan Lentes @OnAirMorgan]

WATCH - @nolaready brings history back to life with pandemic photographs project. @wdsu https://t.co/dVN9V53AE7

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

Putting this here so as to avoid the 5th cat-involved @nolaready post in 2 days. #SpaghettiThin #NOLAFreeze #CatLady

[Laura Mellem @laura_mellem]

This was such a fun project & it all started when Leila found a photo of a masked cat during the 1918 pandemic. Thanks for covering, @WDSUMorgan!

[Morgan Lentes @OnAirMorgan]

WATCH - @nolaready brings history back to life with pandemic photographs project. @wdsu https://t.co/dVN9V53AE7

[Emerge Louisiana @EmergeLouisiana]

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