Interviewer(s): Ernesto Valdez

Project: University of Houston

Dr. Roby is the Director of Neighbors-2-Neighbors Program, Office of Disaster and Preparedness and Response, a program designed to match up evacuee families with local Houstonian families. This interview looks at the analysis of a disaster and the philosophy of reestablishing the physical and emotional needs of the victims by matching evacuee families with local ones who introduce them to neighborhood stores and facilities.

He was interviewed on December 14, 2005 at his office in the Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston, 3217 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas 77006. The interview was conducted by Ernesto Valdés, Center for Public History, University of Houston where the tape is deposited in M.D. Anderson Library on the main campus of the university.

Done on Houston, Texas, August 31, 2006.