Faye Matthews

Faye Matthews, Esq is a senior program fellow at Taproot Earth. She is based and rooted in New Orleans, LA.

Traffic on repaired bridge after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

Among a long list of lessons, Katrina taught us that climate migration is not a distant possibility, it’s already here. We were among the first in recent history to be displaced by a storm of its magnitude, but we absolutely will not be the last.

August 29, 2025