🍊Squeeze The Juice🍊

Season 4 Launch

An Evening with Jay Lapeyre

Date: January 27th

Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm

Location: The Nieux - 2040 Saint Charles Ave.

Squeeze The Juice is back for Season 4 — and we’re opening this chapter with a conversation rooted in experience, curiosity, and shared learning.

Join us for an evening with Jay Lapeyre as we explore what it really means to build, grow, and lead with intention in New Orleans. This is not a lecture — it’s a conversation designed to pass along practical insight, lived perspective, and the kind of knowledge you don’t always find in a textbook.

Now officially an educational program of 504GOOD, Squeeze The Juice exists to make systems more understandable, ideas more accessible, and learning something we do together.

What to Expect

  • A guided conversation with Jay Lapeyre

  • Real-world insights from experience, not theory

  • An engaged, curious room of builders, learners, and neighbors

  • Time to connect, ask questions, and share perspectives

Whether you’re early in your journey or bringing years of experience to the table, this space is designed for exchange — not expertise.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to join us.

👉 We look forward to learning together.

RSVP

James M. "Jay" Lapeyre, Jr.

James M. Lapeyre, Jr. (Jay) is president of Laitram, LLC. Laitram is a diversified global manufacturer of plastic conveyor belting, high speed package sorting, shrimp processing equipment and space-saving stairs.

Lapeyre serves as board chair of the Cato Institute and is also board chair of The Atlas Society. He is a past chair of the board of Tulane University, The Business Council of New Orleans, The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, The New Orleans Crime Coalition and the Isidore Newman School Board of Governors.  Post-Katrina, Lapeyre has been actively engaged in efforts to reform and improve local and state government to improve flood safety, Orleans assessors, Orleans Sewerage and Water governance, charter schools, criminal justice, and the Orleans Inspector General and Independent Police Monitor.

Lapeyre earned his BA from the University of Texas and his MBA and JD from Tulane University. He and Sally have three married children and seven grandchildren.