Kim M.

Braud

Independent Journalist | Documentary Filmmaker | FAA Certified Drone Pilot

Kim publishes around stories and events rather than on a fixed schedule - and her audience responds. In the last 60–90 days alone, her reporting reached millions of views and drove a 90.9% net follower increase on TikTok, with an audience engaged in local government, public policy, infrastructure, and culture.

  • De Gaulle Manor Demolition

  • City of New Orleans

  • NORD - Joe brown park baseball field

  • Industrial canal lock project

  • sewerage and water board community meeting

  • gumroad3000

  • fairgrounds

  • SAil250

  • blk ink film festival

the promise of protection

The Industrial Canal has run through the heart of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward for over a century. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently proposing a $4.7 billion lock replacement project that would bring 14 years of construction to the neighborhood beginning in 2033.


The project has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.03. 97% of the vessels that transit the lock do not stop in New Orleans. Community organizations have been raising questions about the project for 30 years.


The Promise of Protection is a documentary currently in production examining the history of the Industrial Canal, its impact on the Lower Ninth Ward across sixty years, and the questions surrounding the federal government's current proposal.

Directed by Kim M. Braud

An Arabesque Media Production, Produced by Evans Cutchmore

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Evans Cutchmore is a media outlet covering policy, workforce development, education, reentry, and community affairs. Our journalism focuses on the people, legislation, and institutions shaping life in Louisiana, with particular attention to communities underrepresented in mainstream coverage.

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