Southern Spaces Launches Digital Journal Focusing on Katrina’s Aftermath

College freshman Mirandy Li vividly remembers the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, which hit her home in August 2005 when she was 11 years old. Li had to evacuate to Baton Rouge from her hometown of New Orleans, La. There, she temporarily switched to a different middle school where she was given essentials such as school supplies, food and clothing. In October, a couple months after the storm hit, she returned to New Orleans, where she and the three other members of her family lived for a year in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer in front of her demolished…