Podcast

Thais Chavez
Responding to Disaster
1 min readMay 1, 2018

Thais Chavez

Stan Wang

Winnie Hoang

Itzli Arteaga

In late August of 2005, the unthinkable happened. A hurricane hit New Orleans and left nothing behind but debris and the memory of what used to be. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took several days to establish a plan of action and even when the plan came about, it was poorly thought out. Survivors were put in an unfair situation that left them with their hands tied behind their backs. The injustices continued with their public spaces and more importantly their public education.

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