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Fellow: Katy Reckdahl
Katy Reckdahl is a staff reporter for The Times-Picayune. She has covered New Orleans since 1999.
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Katy Reckdahl is a staff reporter for The Times-Picayune. She has covered New Orleans since 1999. Her stories have tackled topics from homelessness and HIV-positive women to Mardi Gras Indians and jazz musicians. She has won numerous awards, including a Casey Journalism Center Medal, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and the Press Club of New Orleans's Alex Waller Memorial Award for best print entry for three years running. On August 28, 2005, the day before Hurricane Katrina struck, Reckdahl gave birth to her son, Hector, in a New Orleans hospital. She left the city two days after the storm, then lived as an evacuee in Phoenix before returning to New Orleans in July 2005.

Fellow's Project
Katy Reckdahl covered the working poor in New Orleans, their struggles to return to the city after Katrina, and the hurdles they faced once they arrived home.
Main Image: Struggling to Make It
Print Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans? Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans?
Print Like a Ton of Bricks Like a Ton of Bricks
Print One-Way Dilemma One-Way Dilemma
Print The Price of Parading The Price of Parading
Print Razing a Community Razing a Community
Print Sour Note Sour Note
Print They Got It Bad They Got It Bad
 
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