Exposing the Hurricane Katrina Levee Cover-Up — How Sandy Rosenthal Mobilized the Nation

In this episode, host Kristen Rocco introduces you to Sandy Rosenthal, an activist, author, and founder of Levees.org.

Sandy shares her journey of uncovering the levee engineering failures that led to catastrophic flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She discusses how she became a vocal critic of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the challenges she faced in advocating for the truth.

Sandy's efforts to expose the cover-up and uncover the truth have led to significant changes in levee flood protection systems and educational initiatives to ensure such engineering failures never happen again. The episode delves into Sandy's bold move of exposing a historic cover-up, the hurdles she overcame, and her continued fight to ensure this never happens again.

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00:00 Introduction
00:24 Meet Sandy Rosenthal: Activist and Author
01:48 The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
03:23 Uncovering the Levee Failures of Hurricane Katrina
05:11 Engineering Failures and Cover-Up
10:36 The Emotional Toll of Hurricane Katrina
16:33 Grassroots Campaign and Early Days of Levees.org
18:03 The Birth of a Movement and Rallying the Community
20:29 Facing Government Opposition
22:54 Personal Resilience and Public Criticism
31:47 Achieving Milestones and Future Goals of Leeves.org
38:32 What Sandy Knows Today About Being Bold She Wishes She Knew Earlier On

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