Kezia Setyawan
Coastal Desk ReporterKezia Setyawan is a coastal reporter for WWNO and WRKF and is based out of Houma.
Her previous roles include work as a general reporter for the Courier and Daily Comet in the Houma-Thibodaux area and a Snowden intern at the Malheur Enterprise in Vale, Oregon. Kezia has covered the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Hurricane Ida disaster and recovery. Her work centers and amplifies the voices of those who have been pushed to the margins.
Kezia is originally from Portland, Oregon. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Oregon. She enjoys developing film in her bathroom, reading web-comics and nonfiction, and dressing up her dog and cat in silly outfits.
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Parade throws during Mardi Gras come in all shapes and sizes. Most of them are beads and other cheap plastic toys that excite first-time parade goers. But a true Carnival veteran knows what makes a good throw: they’re homemade and unique to krewes, such as shoes or coconuts, that end up resting on home mantles of the reveler lucky enough to catch one in a sea of people. -
Over the last 50 years, saltwater intrusion and coastal erosion have turned Lake Borgne and its surrounding areas into swaths of unprotected, open water. But an ongoing $114.6 million Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority project has aimed to recreate that lost land. -
Extreme weather events have cost the nation nearly $2.5 trillion since 1980, with Louisiana on top as the most impacted state by billion-dollar natural disasters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. -
A new pilot project, which partners the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe with federal agencies, aims to strengthen climate change resilience, data gathering and adaptation resources for the Louisiana tribe. -
For the first time since 1976, the French President visited the European nation’s former colony Louisiana for a day with an agenda that focused primarily on energy transition and Francophone preservation in the Pelican State. -
President Emmanuel Macron of France, French First Lady Brigitte Macron and other members of the French delegation will touch down in New Orleans for a day of French Quarter touring, climate talks, and celebrating its shared Francophone culture in Louisiana on Friday afternoon. -
Even before it was colonized and would become known as Louisiana, there were various languages spoken in the region by the natives that lived here, calling the area “Bulbancha,” Choctaw for “place of many tongues.”But many residents in the state don’t know that a diversity of native tongues existed well before colonization of the state, something that the Houma Language Project hopes to change. -
The construction of two new oceanographic research ships, the Oceanographer and the Discoverer, are underway in Houma as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration project. The goal of these vessels is to conduct studies on issues related to coastal resilience, collecting climate data. -
After decades of exploration – and exploitation — Louisiana is covered with thousands of orphaned well sites that cause a plethora of problems for the environment and communities that live with them. -
Named after the legendary bayou creature that has the head of a wolf and body of a human, the Rougarou Festival is a staple in South Louisiana that celebrates the area’s folklore and culture in true Louisiana fashion: a costumed parade and contest, good Cajun-flavored food and some folklore storytelling.
