Welcome to the webpage of The English-Speaking Union US, New Orleans Branch! We’ve been an active Branch for more than 30 years, and have over 100 current memberships, including individual, dual, and the largest number of National Patrons of any ESUUS Branch. 

We host a full schedule of in-person events September through June. Plus, we’re supplemented monthly by the highly successful and interesting virtual ESUUS Happy Hour programs series organized by ESUUS Branches nationwide and broadcast monthly by ESUUS headquarters in New York City. 

The New Orleans Branch played a pivotal role in the kickoff to this program during the initial COVD period, thanks to former Membership and Media Chair Julie Jardine, who was on the national planning committee and helped  to provide the first virtual speaker, Robin B. Williams, Ph.D., who had been scheduled for an in-person presentation to the New Orleans Branch on Regency and Gothic Revival Architecture. Branch member and Founder of the National Food and Beverage Foundation, Liz Williams, provided another virtual program for the series about Creole Food: America’s Oldest Cuisine. Also, Jeopardy contender, Penn State professor and Moby Dick expert Hester Bloom was another fascinating Happy Hour speaker sponsored by our Branch.