FLOODLINES featuring Levees.org founder is named 2020’s Best Podcast by NPR, New York Times, New Yorker and more

Floodlines is named best of 2020’s podcasts by NPR, New York Times, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Guardian, Economist and more. The free podcast is produced by The Atlantic Magazine and hosted by the talented Vann R. Newkirk II. Floodlines revisits the story of the levee breaches through the experiences of four New Orleanians—Le-Ann Williams, Fred […]

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Commissioner of post-Katrina Levee Board praises book that criticized levee board reform

Stephen Estopinal, eight-year veteran of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority–East created after Hurricane Katrina, praises Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal’s new book Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Mango, 2020).  Estopinal’s book review will appear in the upcoming double issue (vol 40, numbers 1 & 2) of the Xavier Review. […]

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The Lens publishes Op-Ed by Sandy Rosenthal on value of Independent Investigation of Disasters

Founder Sandy Rosenthal and Sally Regenhard of New York City are both ordinary citizens with no special training who shouldered the responsibility of calling for independent investigations of two internationally watched disasters that occurred five years apart. The New Orleans Lens has published founder Sandy Rosenthal’s opinion editorial about bipartisan legislation that addresses this issue. […]

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