Five years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, I was honored to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Jackson County Health Department building in Pascagoula, Mississippi, that replaces the facility destroyed by Katrina. At the ceremony, County Health Director Dr. Travnicek reminisced about receiving my call offering help a few days after Katrina. What he needed most, he said, was two modular health facilities, at a cost of $1 million. Thankfully, with help from Kaiser Permanente, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and General Electric, the CDC Foundation's Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund was able to fund both ..
Kay Wilkins, CEO, American Red Cross, Southeast Louisiana Chapter, is a resilient, optimistic leader. But she recalls that her leadership was put to the test during the dark days following Hurricane Katrina. Follow photographer David Snyder on assignment with Louisiana meta-leaders including Kay Wilkins at 
