About CenLamar
Lamar White, Jr. is the founder, operator, and owner of CenLamar.com, a website he launched in August of 2006 in Alexandria, Louisiana. In both 2008 and 2010, CenLamar was named Best Website in Central Louisiana by the readers of Cenla Focus Magazine, and Lamar has been a guest lecturer at the New Leaders Council-Louisiana, an organization he helped to form, and a panelist at the annual Rising Tide Conference.
Lamar’s work has also appeared in Louisiana Progress Journal, NOLA Defender, The Lens, The Town Talk, and Cenla Focus, among others.
(Lamar, the Godfuncle, holding his three-day-old niece Elle Marie)
Since its debut, CenLamar has received more than 800,000 unique visitors; it’s been referenced by state, national, and international media, and last year, it was the cover story of a feature-length article in The Town Talk titled “Freedom of Speech.” Lamar, along with fellow bloggers Daniel T. Smith and Ryan McLeod, was selected as an official state blogger for Louisiana during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and in 2010, Lamar was invited by the White House to take a Coast Guard helicopter tour over the Deepwater Horizon platform, the epicenter of the BP oil disaster.
Lamar spent nearly five years working as a top assistant and advisor to Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy. Together with Mayor Roy, Lamar helped to develop the single-largest infrastructure redevelopment project in the City’s history and was the principal organizer and planner of two large regional summits, both of which focused on sustainability, smart growth, renewable energy, historic preservation, and crime prevention through environmental design.
Lamar is a graduate of Rice University (Baker 2005), earning a degree in Religious Studies and English. He is a two-time graduate of the world-renowned New York Writer’s Summer Institute. Additionally, Lamar earned a certification in the high skills of business from the Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and is a graduate of Louisiana real estate school.
Currently, Lamar is working toward completing his law degree at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law.
His writing has been praised by the writers Justin Cronin, Rick Moody, and Marsha Recknagel, and his professional work at the City of Alexandria has been commended by numerous internationally-award winning architects and planners, most notably Frederic Schwartz and Greg Saville.
Later this year, Lamar will be featured in the documentary film, “The American Way.”
He can be reached by e-mailing lamarw at gmail dot com.
In his spare time, he enjoys hanging out with his friends, family, and his abnormally large golden retriever, Lucy Anna; listening to music that his friends say will never get on the radio; reading, and traveling.
