Staff: Louise Ho

Communications Associate

A woman with glasses and strands of hair framing her face smiles placidly at the camera. She's at the bottom of a staircase with a green handrail.Louise is a local mutual aid organizer with a background in film exhibition. The mutual aid group she co-founded in 2019, Street Forum, supports over 200 unhoused Austinites a week at a pop-up in Republic Square Park that provides hot food and hot coffee, hygiene supplies, tents and sleeping bags, help navigating social services, harm reduction supplies, and even live music, arts and crafts, and games.

Louise has a BA in Cinema Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has a decade of experience with live event production, with a special emphasis on film screenings. Louise has worked with We Luv Video, Hyperreal Film Club, Alamo Drafthouse, and the Blue Starlite Drive-in to contribute to Austin’s vibrant movie culture. She is passionate about film as a vehicle for community building and social change.