ENDORSEMENTS FOR SANDY ROSENTHAL

“Sandy Rosenthal is a courageous and indefatigable warrior for justice.”
––Dave Eggers, author of The Circle (Vintage press, April 2014) 

There are only a few civilians that fight like warriors. Sandy Rosenthal is one of them. I've personally watched Rosenthal stand up for justice against big money companies with deep pockets. Even when the odds were stacked overwhelmingly against her, she came out the victor.
––Russel L. Honore’, LTG United States Army (Ret.)

Sandy is a New Orleans hero. Her advocacy on behalf of flood protection has changed this city for the better. My own book, “Flood of Lies: The St. Rita's Nursing Home Tragedy (Pelican Publishing Company, 2013) drew upon some of her research. Sandy can rally people to action like I've never seen and is relentless in her efforts to hold government and political leaders accountable.
––James Cobb, author of Flood of Lies (Pelican, 2013)

As I traveled through New Orleans in early January of 2006, there were no birds, no dogs, no children, no streetlights, no mail...but there were, I discovered as I drove around the haunted cityscape, yard signs in neighborhoods––seemingly everywhere––that said "Hold the Corps Accountable". They were, I soon learned, the work of Sandy Rosenthal, whose newly-constructed Levees.org suspected, before two university investigations made it uncomfortably clear, that "Katrina" was no natural disaster. Sandy is bright, dedicated, and fearless--a bad combination if you're an Army Corps of Engineers PR person. As those university investigations' results became known, at least to locals, Sandy turned her efforts to doing what would seem normal in other disasters but was ridiculously challenging locally--erecting monuments at key points of system failure to commemorate those who lost their homes, their livelihoods, or their lives through the mis- and mal-feasance of this mysterious federal super-agency. She has fought for her city, and her community, harder than most soldiers fight in war. And, with a new Corps-built system starting to reveal its own problems, she's not through fighting yet.
––Harry Shearer, actor, producer and voice of The Simpsons

“For someone like me, who moved to New Orleans after Katrina, one of the biggest challenges of understanding New Orleans has been to understand what happened in that flood, and why, and what it means. I don’t know of any individual who has done more to elucidate these matters than Sandy Rosenthall. Her scrupulous and ferocious focus on the facts have been a necessary tonic for the city and a help for its citizens. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Sandy, in those terms, has been a huge source of light.”
––Thomas Beller, Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane, author of four books and contributor to the New Yorker, and the New York Times.

"Saving New Orleans is not enough for Sandy Rosenthal. Since the federal levees failed New Orleans in 2005, she has made it her business to tell threatened communities around the country that the Army Corps of Engineers is doing a woeful job of maintaining our infrastructure and guarding our safety. Ignore her at your own peril."
––Lolis Eric Elie, former Times-Picayune columnist and producer the film, “Faubourg Treme: the Untold Story of Black New Orleans”