Sandy Rosenthal at site of Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden. Photo/Kenneth Evans

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal is among a “diverse group of Louisianans” who will speak on Hurricane Katrina, then and now, at the last in a series of Katrina anniversary programs

WHEH: Tuesday (Nov. 17) at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Freeman Auditorium of the Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University

“We have assembled a profoundly interesting array of Louisianans to reflect on what the phrase ‘the Katrina disaster now’ means to them,” says event organizer Andy Horowitz, an assistant professor of history who is teaching a class called The Katrina Disaster Now at Tulane this semester.

Speakers include clarinetist Dr. Michael White, levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal, poet Kalamu ya Salaam, Louisiana Bucket Brigade founder Anne Rolfes, Ashe Cultural Arts Center director Carol Bebelle, Tulane Katrina class alum Denali Lander and public housing activist Kawana Jasper.

The event is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, “The Katrina Disaster Now” program will be followed by dinner in the 1834 Club. The event is free and open to the public.

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