Caroline Gerdes

A New Orleans native, Caroline Gerdes is a freelance journalist who has been published in the Huffington Post, Bustle, and HelloGiggles. She has contributed as an oral historian to the NASA Academy and is a Women’ s Media Center SheSource expert. Gerdes received a grant from the National Geographic Society to preserve the history of the Ninth Ward through an oral history project, which she adapted into this book. Her husband served as her photographer for the project.