PROGRAMS

CULTURAL OUTREACH COMMITTEE

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Richelle “Ricky” Caiton, M.A., Ed. L
Richelle “Ricky” Caiton, M.A., Ed. L

*Birthdate: April 1

* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador

* Induction: 2013

* Parade Unit: Dance Company

* Parade Special Teams: BDL Facepainter

* Hobbies: Fine Art, Cooking & Video Games

* Favorite Colors: Pink &Black

* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood & Chargrilled or on the 1/2shell oysters

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Let’s Go Get’ Em” By Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias

* Favorite Mardi-GrasHangout/ Activity: Eating &

Sleeping after the BDL Parade


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Lisa Porter
Lisa Porter

* Birthdate: June 5

* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador

* Induction: 2016

* Parade Unit: Dance Company

* Parade Special Teams: Choreographer

* Hobbies: Watching cooking shows, cooking &

reading the Bible

* Favorite Color: Pink

* Favorite Creole Dish: Gumbo

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Hey Pocky Way”

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: 3rd and

St. Charles Ave.


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Brittany James
Brittany James

* Birthdate: September 6

* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador

* Induction: 2016

* Parade Unit: Dance Company

* Parade Special Teams: N/A

* Hobbies: Writing, playing Nintendo Switch, Singing

* Favorite Color: Pink

* Favorite Creole Dish: Dressing/ Stuffing

* Favorite Carnival Song: I love ALL Mardi Gras

music!

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dancing beside my doll sisters


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DANCE-PARADE COMMITTEE

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Sherri Williams
Sherri Williams

*Birthdate: April 12

* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador,

* Induction: 2017

* Parade Unit: Auxiliary

* Special Teams: Majorette

* Hobbies: Dancing, Zumba, Gardening, Cooking

* Favorite Color: Purple

* Favorite Creole Dish: Okra Gumbo

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Golden Crown” By Bo

Dollis & The Wild Magnolias

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Bullet’s

Sports Bar in The 7th Ward after the BDL Mardi Gras Parade


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Ashley Robinson
Fundraising Coordinator
Ashley Robinson
Fundraising Coordinator

* Birthdate: November 30

* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador

* Induction: 2013

* Parade Unit: Dance Company

* Parade Special Teams: N/A

* Hobbies: Dancing & Crafting

* Favorite Color: Red & Pink

* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood gumbo and a good crawfish “berl” (boil)

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Do Whatcha Wanna” Pt. 3 by Reirth Brass Band

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Attending Parades


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HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE

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Manya Louis
Manya Louis

* Birthdate: January 24

* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador

* Induction: 2017

* Parade Unit: Auxiliary

* Special Teams: Trinket Tray Stepper

* Hobbies: Travel, music festivals, History & Community Service

* Favorite Color: Avocado Green

* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood Gumbo

* Favorite Carnival Song: “We Are One” by Hot 8

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: BabyDoll Ladies Dance-Parade


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Toya Smith
Toya Smith

* Birthdate: April 23

* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador

* Induction: 2007

* Parade Unit: Dance Company

* Parade Special Teams: N/A

* Hobbies: Dancing, Traveling, & Shopping

* Favorite Color: Tan

* Favorite Creole Dish: Crawfish Bisque

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Feel Like Funkin Up”

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dance &

shake in The BDL Mardi Gras Dance-Parade


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Michele James
Coordinator
Michele James
Coordinator

* Birthdate: August 7

* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador

* Induction: 2017

* Parade Unit: Auxiliary

* Special Teams: Majorette

* Hobbies: Reading, Cooking & Dancing

* Favorite Colors: Purple and Pink

* Favorite Creole Dish: Smothered Okra

* Favorite Carnival Song: “Big Girl” By Hot 8

* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dancing on St. Charles with my doll sisters


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CREATIVE PRODUCERS

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Millisia White
Artistic Director/ Founder
Millisia White
Artistic Director/ Founder

Millisia White is a daughter of Louisiana’s distinct Creole heritage who nobly hails as a fourth-generation New Orleans native. Millisia is Alumna of The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where she trained in dance-arts before turning the seeds of her favorite pastime into an early career. With more than fifteen years of experience as a dance instructor, movement coach and choreographer she has worked with prestigious film production companies such as Studio C Artists, Alexander/Mitchell Productions, the History Channel and French Film One. Ms. White received her BA Degree at the University of New Orleans, with a concentration in film studies.

DJ Hektik
Music Ambassador
DJ Hektik
Music Ambassador

DJ Hektik is internationally known, as an American Southern DJ-artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. For nearly two decades, DJ Hektik has been spinning, mixing, arranging & hosting radio shows, mainstream CD compilations, party-packed concerts and corporate scenarios of all sorts. Proclaimed music-mix monarch, mix-video jockey, composer, and “seasoned” tastemaker, DJ Hektik is widely sought after by a host of arts & entertainment patrons and fellow artists alike. DJ Hektik’s reputation precedes him for his vast knowledge of the latest technologies and unique quality of blending together both classic and contemporary sounds of Jazz, Hip Hop/R&B. Particularly, to his merit DJ Hektik prides himself as co-founder and (only) Music Ambassador of the New Orleans Society of Dance (NOSD); a community centered, cultural-dance organization. DJ Hektik’s central role of resurrecting, & cultivating the company’s signature “Babydoll Ladies” dance-act and once dormant 102-year-old doll masking, tradition (c.1912) is prominently on exhibit in the Presbytere, LA. State Museum, (January 2013 thru 2014). November 2014, DJ Hektik is featured (performing) with the Babydoll Ladies in the MACYS Thanksgiving Day Parade®

(NYC Herald Square).


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