If you have ever wanted to get into advocacy, this is the episode for you! I’m beyond excited to share the latest episode of Roaming with Restless Women in which I had the incredible honor of chatting with Sandy Rosenthal, a true force of nature and the founder of Levees.org. Sandy’s story is one of resilience, courage, and the relentless pursuit of truth.

Sandy and her family lived through Hurricane Katrina and, while they were evacuated from New Orleans, she began hearing a lot of disparaging comments and misinformation about the disaster.

Discover how Sandy identified and fought against the false narratives surrounding the New Orleans flooding, proving that the levees should have held against a Category 2 storm (which was what Katrina eventually became before landfall). The levees should NOT have failed. Sandy made it her mission to correct the misinformation that was being touted at the time.

She began Levees.org, starting with a simple website and a petition to President Bush that quickly gained traction and media attention. She understood and used the media to change the narrative to the truth - that the levees were not properly engineered and that they needed to be re-built to withstand higher tidal surge from at least Cat 5 hurricanes. narrative and how Sandy leveraged it to spread the truth.

Her book, Words Whispered in Water, is in its second edition and describes the story of Katrina from her perspective.

To reach Sandy: Website: SandyRosenthal.net/ or Sandy@levees.org

LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/RosenthalSandy

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