Dee Dee Green is the Area Program Director for American Friends Service Committee’s Peace by Piece New Orleans program. Dee Dee has lived in New Orleans since 2007 and serves on the executive boards of the Hollygrove Neighbors Association, Inc., and Ubuntu Village NOLA. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board for the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES). She is a 2007 recipient of the Academy for Educational Development’s New Voices Gulf Coast Transformation Fellowship and a 2018 and 2022 Mellon Fellow in Tulane University's Graduate Program in Community Engaged Scholarship.