In 2005, following Hurricane Katrina’s devastating August landfall, Resilience Force founder and executive director Saket Soni moved to Louisiana to help the workers facilitating the state’s recovery. Confronted by the realities of the storm’s aftermath, Soni had a clarifying conversation with his mentor, historian Vincent Harding, who, he said, told him that the country they lived in was a work in progress: “This is a place that’s still being built, and you’re part of building it.”
To this day, it’s this ethos that underpins Soni’s advocacy, in which he supports and protects the crews who rebuild after disaster. It also provides a powerful…
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