Our Board
Michael Allweiss is a partner at Lowe, Stein, Hoffman, Allweiss & Hauver, L.L.P., a firm that provides legal services in general business and civil matters. Michael R. Allweiss has substantial and significant experience in insurance and traditional tort based cases, complex commercial litigation, products liability, professional liability, and employment law. Mr. Allweiss earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and his law degree from Tulane University. He is also an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Tulane University School of Law.
Ann Clayton Chamberlain is the managing partner of Drysdale Consulting, LLC, a financial consulting firm. She has over twenty years of experience in public accounting, commercial and investment banking. Mrs. Chamberlain received her B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and is an unlicensed CPA. She previously served on the board of the Louise S. McGehee School and chaired its Endowment Committee.
Dow Michael Edwards is Counsel at Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore LLC,where his practice areas are railroad, insurance, casualty, products and premises liability, and complex litigation. He is a former Law Clerk for Chief Justice Pascal Calogero at the Louisiana Supreme Court. He served as an Adjutant General Officer in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Corps. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma Panhandle State University and Southern University Law Center where he served as Managing Editor of the Southern University Law Review. He is member of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and serves on the Board for the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Louisiana.
George C. Freeman is currently on the Executive Committee of Barasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, where he is also a member and has been since 2003. Prior to this, he was a member of the Management Committee at Stone Pigman Walter Wittmann. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is a Rhodes Scholar. He is also an adjunct professor at Tulane University School of Law. George received degrees from both Emory University and Oxford University in Oxford, England. His J.D. and M.A. were obtained at the University of Virginia.
Kathleen Padian, President was elected as President of the NOLA 180 Board in January, 2010. She is the Founder and President of the New Orleans School Facility Project a locally based advocacy organization. Prior to founding NOSFP, Ms. Padian was the Vice President of Building Hope, a private foundation in Washington, DC. focused on charter school facility financing and technical assistance. Previous experience includes teaching in both public and private schools in traditional and special education settings, Senior leadership positions in regional and national non-profit organizations. Her skill set includes resource development, advocacy, government relations, and project management for the renovation and construction of several public charter school buildings. In Washington, DC she served as the Founding Board Chair for Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School.
David W. Robinson-Morris, Jr., is the Associate Director of Alumni and Parent Relations at Loyola University New Orleans. As Associate Director, Mr. Robinson-Morris is responsible for the Young Alumni Committee, the College of Business Alumni Board, as well as programming events and maintaining contact with alumni in the Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and the Northshore alumni chapters.
Mr. Robinson-Morris joined the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at Loyola University New Orleans in October 2006, after spending over a year working in the Nagin Administration, City of New Orleans. While attending Loyola University New Orleans, he began his career there as an intern and upon graduation was hired in the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development as their Communications Liaison. Soon after, Mr. Robinson-Morris was promoted to Publicist, and within a month later to Senior Publicist in the Mayor’s Office of Communications, City of New Orleans.
David is a 2006 graduated of Loyola University New Orleans, where he served as Senior Congressperson-at-Large on the Student Government Association, Executive Media Coordinator for the University Programming Board (UPB), and several Board of Trustee committees. In addition to being on the Board of Directors for NOLA180 Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, Mr. Robinson-Morris is a member Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Alpha Kappa Psi, and is on the steering committee for Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans.
Doug Thornton is a Senior Vice President for SMG, the management company that operates the Louisiana Superdome and the New Orleans Arena. In his current position, he currently oversees the operation of several SMG facilities in the Gulf Coast region. Thornton began his career in the Oil and Gas industry and relocated to New Orleans in 1984. He worked for several Oil and Gas Exploration Companies, including the New Orleans based firm, Taylor Energy Company where he served as Vice President. He began his career in sports in 1988 when he and other community leaders created the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. He served as President of the organization from 1994 to 1997. Under Thornton’s leadership the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation made the transition from a fledging organization to a dynamic force in the city’s tourism and sports industry.
Robbie Vitrano is a founder and partner of Trumpet Advertising. He is a founding member of the Idea Village and currently serves on its Board of Directors. He was named by Mayor Nagin to the Downtown Development District, serves on Loyola's Alumni Board and Communications Advisory committee, as well as the boards of Unity for the Homeless, and the Crescent City Farmer's Market. He is a past board member of the Young Leadership Council and the New Orleans Police Foundation.
