At the Novem­ber brown bag, Doug Harris, direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion Research Alliance (Era) for New Orleans, dis­cussed the research agen­da of the orga­ni­za­tion and gath­ered input from the audi­ence about the research ques­tions they see as impor­tant. In the Decem­ber event, he will com­pare the brown bag par­tic­i­pants’ ques­tions of inter­est to the to those of researchers and con­sid­er why dif­fer­ent groups are inter­est­ed in dif­fer­ent questions.