As executive director of the New Orleans Arts and Cultural Host Committee, Harris is also the founder and director of the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. She has spent the past 25 years providing convention planning, festival/music production, program administration, coordination, and event management services to a variety of clients both domestic and abroad. Her experience includes a near ten-year tenure at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival which was followed by her appointment to lead the city of New Orleans’ Music and Entertainment Commission — a position held for eight years — marked with tremendous success in re-positioning New Orleans as an entertainment Mecca and marketing its rich cultural legacy as the “Birthplace of Jazz.”