Glenda Jones Stevenson Harris
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037962
- eISBN:
- 9781621039518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037962.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter presents the story of Katrina survivor Glenda Jones Stevenson Harris. As a longtime resident of Lower Ninth Ward, Glenda witnessed the decline of her neighborhood in the face of drugs, ...
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This chapter presents the story of Katrina survivor Glenda Jones Stevenson Harris. As a longtime resident of Lower Ninth Ward, Glenda witnessed the decline of her neighborhood in the face of drugs, crime, and poverty. She dedicated herself to reversing that decline: one year before Katrina’s landfall, she became the ward’s first advocacy director. Among Glenda’s many self-assigned tasks was to study and strategize how to evacuate the Lower Nine in case of a hurricane. Glenda was also a member of the first training session mounted by the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project.Less
This chapter presents the story of Katrina survivor Glenda Jones Stevenson Harris. As a longtime resident of Lower Ninth Ward, Glenda witnessed the decline of her neighborhood in the face of drugs, crime, and poverty. She dedicated herself to reversing that decline: one year before Katrina’s landfall, she became the ward’s first advocacy director. Among Glenda’s many self-assigned tasks was to study and strategize how to evacuate the Lower Nine in case of a hurricane. Glenda was also a member of the first training session mounted by the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project.
