Caroline Gerdes

A New Orleans native, Caroline Gerdes is a freelance journalist who has been published in the Huffington Post, Bustle.com, and HelloGiggles.com. She has contributed as an oral historian to the NASA Academy and is a Women's Media Center SeSource 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 has now adapted into this book. She lives outside of New Orleans with her husband.