Cholene Espinoza
During her tenure as an embedded radio journalist in Iraq in 2003, Air Force combat pilot Espinoza finally began questioning the invasion. Her most patriotic move to date, though, has been writing Through the Eye of the Storm: A Book Dedicated to What Katrina Washed Away. The work details the lives and tribulations of the residents of DeLisle, Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina. Through her time participating in the relief effort and humanizing the devastated lives she encountered, Espinoza wanted to emphasize the importance of human community. “Credit cards, cell phones and bank accounts don’t always work or last,” Espinoza said, “but I have realized ‘through the eye of the storm,’ that community can deliver us from any tribulation, be it individual or collective.”
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