ABOUT SANDY

Sandy Rosenthal is a New Orleans author whose debut book––Words Whispered in Water––is about how she exposed the federal government’s campaign to fool the American people about why New Orleans flooded during Hurricane Katrina.

Rosenthal founded the major non profit Levees.org––with 25,000 supporters and chapters in five states––while she was evacuated for the 2005 storm.

Ever since the levee failures and flooding, Rosenthal has worked nonstop to separate the facts from the fairy tale.

For her efforts, Rosenthal has been honored with numerous awards most recently including Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year from Tulane University and Most Influential Woman from Mount Holyoke College.

When Rosenthal is not coaching others in civic activism, she plays tennis, practices yoga and dances to zydeco music. Rosenthal is founding member of the Laurel Eagles, a mentoring program and the Divine Revelers of Terpsichore, a Mardi Gras parading group.

She has three adult children: Aliisa, Mark and Stanford and two grandchildren Ellie and Brenner. She also has two small dogs named Twinkie and Cupcake.