Associated Press – Aug 2023
Levees.org announces its campaign for all engineering students to receive instruction on engineering failures and the lessons they teach. Click for AP article.
Speakers Who Get Results – Jan 2023
Elizabeth Bachman talks to Sandy Rosenthal about her battle to expose the Army Corps of Engineers levee mistakes. Click for article.
Business Insurance – Sep 2021
Sandy Rosenthal speaks with Matthew Lerner about the upgrades to New Orleans levee system and its value. Click for article.
Popular Science – Sep 2021
Matthew Lerner speaks with Sandy Rosenthal about the upgrades to New Orleans levee system. Click for article.
Julie Rose with Top of Mind – Sep 2021
National radio host Julie Rose talks to Sandy Rosenthal about Hurricane Ida and the new levee system in New Orleans. Click for radio show.
Washington Post – Aug 2021
Washpo’s senior editor Marc Fisher talks to Sandy Rosenthal about New Orleans’ new levee system in the face of Hurricane Ida. Click for article.
Healthline Magazine – Apr 2021
Founder Sandy Rosenthal has a frank discussion with Simone M. Scully about the affects of catastrophe on mental health. Click for article.
Technical Review: Columbia University – Apr 2021
The Columbia Water Center issues a positive technical review of Words Whispered in Water (Mango, Aug 2020). Click for review.
VIDEO: NPR’s John Burnett with Miami Book Fair – Nov 2020
NPR’s award-winning John Burnett interviews founder Sandy Rosenthal about her debut book Words Whispered in Water (Mango, Aug 2020). Click for video.
Book Review by Publishers Weekly – Nov 2020
Positive review of founder Sandy Rosenthal’s debut book Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Mango, Aug 2020). Click for review.
Marc Bernier Show in Florida – Oct 2020
Marc Bernier interviews Sandy Rosenthal live on his radio show about her book Words Whispered in Water in partnership with the 2020 Miami Book Fair. Click for interview.
NDT-TV in New York City – Oct 2020
Don Tran interviews founder Rosenthal on the arrive of Hurricane Delta in west Louisiana just six weeks after the same region was clobbered by Hurricane Laura. Click for full story.
Across the Margin – Sep 2020
Michael Shields discusses Words Whispered in Water with Sandy Rosenthal. Click for podcast.
NPR’s Weekend Edition – Aug 2020
John Burnett interviews Sandy Rosenthal about the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s impact. Click for full story.
NPR’s 1A Show – Aug 2020
Charla Freeland with chats with Sandy Rosenthal, Mitch Landrieu, Harry Shearer and Andy Horowitz 15 years after Hurricane Katrina. Click for full story.
The Millennial Source – Aug 2020
Joseph Lyttleton interviews Sandy Rosenthal and five other New Orleanians about Hurricane Katrina’s lasting impact 15 years later. Click for full story.
NDT-TV in New York City – Jul 2020
Don Tran interviews founder Rosenthal on the Michigan dam failures and the future of dams in America. Click for full story.
Publishers Weekly – Jun 2020
Founder Rosenthal’s book was selected by Publishers Weekly in its quarterly listing of titles in Politics & Current Events. Click for full story.
Kent State University – Jun 2020
Kent State University issued a press release reprinting founder Sandy Rosenthal’s first excerpt from her debut book Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina. The excerpt is titled, The Big Lie and How it All Started. Click for full story.
Talk Louisiana – Apr 2020
Jim Engster, host of Talk Louisiana, the NPR affiliate in Baton Rouge, LA interviewed founder Sandy Rosenthal on a comparison of the tragedy of the levee breach event in 2005 to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on New Orleans.. Click for podcast.
The Atlantic Magazine – Mar 2020
Founder Sandy Rosenthal is heavily featured in episode 6 of award-winning 8-episode project hosted by Vann Newkirk II and edited by Katy Reckdahl. The podcast is titled Floodlines: the story of an unnatural disaster. Click for full story.
Associated Press – Jan 2020
Founder Sandy Rosenthal announces her book contract with Florida-based Mango Publishing. The book, titled Words Whispered in Water will debut in summer of 2020. Click for full story.
TV Show: The Discovery Channel – Nov 2019
Levees.org is featured in the 10-part series titled Disasters Engineered and covers some of the most important cases in engineering and world history. Click for 3-minute trailer.
TV Show: Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson – Oct 2019
Founder Sandy Rosenthal featured on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson (airs in 70+ cities every Sunday). Rosenthal comments on the plight of sinking cities. Click for full story.
Associated Press – July 2019
Founder Sandy Rosenthal comments on her confidence in the projected models for storm surge and river heights as Hurricane Barry gains strength. Click for full story.
CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell – July 2019
With Hurricane Barry looming, founder Sandy Rosenthal comments on 300-yard gap in Mississippi River levee at Army Corps of Engineers’ headquarters. Click for full story.
The Weather Channel – March 2019
“Artists and volunteers teamed together to memorialize the effects of the devastating storm that hit New Orleans more than a decade ago. The Flooded House Museum, funded by the non-profit group Levees.org… Click for full story.
Associated Press – March 2019
“…A project of the donor-funded nonprofit group Levees.org, the Flooded House Museum is unique among the city’s monuments to Katrina’s destruction. There are markers at various sites, including some of the places where floodwalls gave way. But there’s nothing like this re-creation…” Click for full story.
CBS News – August 2018
“They have a cement base that allows for this ‘overtopping,’ but not for an extended period such as 24 hours,” said Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org… This [erosion] can result in a direct collapse and release huge amounts of uncontrolled water…” Click for full story.
StoryCorps – Jul 2018
For the New Orleans Tricentennial, Sandy Rosenthal and her son Stanford are interviewed by StoryCorps . Click for full story.
Science Magazine – Feb 2018
“This place is a memorial to the trauma of the Flood,” reads the text, written by a local nonprofit, Levees.org. Near here, a section of concrete levee gave way one August morning in 2005, sending the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina crashing into the neighborhood…” Click for full story.
CBS News – August 2016
“People all over the world watched in horror the human toll caused by that levee failure,” said Sandy Rosenthal, founder of the non-profit Levees.org. “For FEMA and the Corps to have missed their deadlines for implementing the directives of Congress to make our nation’s people safer is unacceptable.” Click for full story.
Public Radio International – September 2015
“…after the storm, angered by the mistakes of the Army Corps of Engineers, and frustrated by the missing facts of the story of the breached levees, [Sandy Rosenthal] focused her time on that. She created Levees.org, which, its mission statement says, is “educating America on the facts associated with the 2005 catastrophic flooding of the New Orleans region.” Click for full story.
The Globe and Mail – August 2015
“The fact that the disaster that struck New Orleans is referred to almost universally as Katrina angers more than a few people here, perhaps none more than Sandy Rosenthal… Thanks in no small measure to her efforts, it is almost universally accepted here now that human error played the bigger role in the calamity… Click for full story
NPR – August 2015
“In the years since the storm, language has become important. Scientific studies have largely laid blame for the failed flood walls with the Corps that designed them. Sandy Rosenthal, founder and chief agitator of the grass-roots group, levees.org, is writing a forthcoming book…” Click for full story.
REUTERS – August 2015
“Today, the disaster site has become this open-air museum, where Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal braves the sweltering temperatures to tell tourists about what she says was more than just a natural disaster. The survivors deserve for everyone to know the vetted facts about the flooding.” Click for full story.
EURONEWS – August 2015
“… Sandy Rosenthal welcomes tourists at an open air museum. She blames much of the city’s flooding on the pre-2005 inadequate protection system. “People arrive in Louis Armstrong Airport with a desire to understand what happened here, even though it’s been 10 years. And we’re glad that they do…” Click for full story.
The Guardian – August 2015
Last month the activist group levees.org, which describes the floods as the worst civil engineering disaster in US history, opened a permanent exhibition next to the reconstructed wall. … With so many vacant lots it was not hard to find the space to construct it. “Before we built this park it was an illegal dump – debris, mattresses,” said Sandy Rosenthal, the group’s founder and executive director. Click for full story.
