Biography

As a native New Orleanian, Pam has always been interested in the beauty of the surrounding environment, both natural and manmade.  She has also been aware of the challenges of living below sea level along a fragile, disappearing coastline.  Therefore, it is only natural that her life has been measured by hurricanes rather than the usual milestones.  In January 2007, she began working as an Administrative Assistant at Tulane’s Academic Advising Center, which (thanks to Hurricane Katrina) was then located in a FEMA trailer.  Then, in August 2009, she was offered the position of Executive Secretary at the Office of the Dean of Newcomb-Tulane College in Cudd Hall.  Coming full circle, she began working as the Administrative Secretary for the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic on August 29, 2021, the day before Hurricane Ida made landfall in New Orleans. 

While working on her bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the University of New Orleans, she studied printmaking and photography.  Later, when she began working at Tulane University, she had the opportunity to continue her study of ceramics and darkroom photography.  In order to fulfill a class assignment, she began working on a photodocumentary of the landbanked public schools of Orleans Parish, many of which have been demolished or sold at auction. 

Her favorite printmaking techniques include:  darkroom photography, stone lithography, linocuts, etchings, photo intaglio and woodcuts. When she is not dodging hurricanes, she is working in her printmaking studio and tending her own garden.