Bio
photo by April Renae
Rachel Dangermond
Writer and Director of 100 Men Hall
In 2004, I created this blog as an outlet for my writing. Then months later, the 2005 Federal Flood that followed Katrina turned my life upside down. As an investigative journalist, I was blogging about the national and global tragedy through the lens of my own life. From 2005 to 2015, I went from denial to determination, from a total dismantling to reinvention, from PTSD to resilience. I was one of few New Orleans bloggers who captured in real-time the tragedy that happened in New Orleans on an hourly and daily basis for over a decade.
Rachel Dangermond was conceived in revolutionary Cuba and born in Miami after her family fled Castro’s victorious march into Havana in 1959. She grew up mainly in Central America, Puerto Rico, and New Orleans but has lived many places in between. Her writing career as a failed novelist, sometimes avid blogger and successful investigative journalist has stalled somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico, where she now calls coastal Mississippi home and lives with her son, Tin, in the back of a historical Black dance hall whose purpose and construction was itself an act of revolution.