Katrina

American  

[kuh-tree-nuh] / kəˈtri nə /

Or Katryna

noun

1. a female given name, form of Katherine.

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Example Sentences

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Erikson led a task force initiated by the American Sociological Association and housed under the Social Science Research Council that grew to involve some 60 social scientists and went on for 17 years.

From The Wall Street Journal

When Katrina hit, Erikson had recently retired after 45 years of teaching sociology at Yale.

From The Wall Street Journal

During a 2015 talk, Erikson called Katrina “far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience,” whose long-lasting consequences revealed all manner of societal afflictions: mismanagement of infrastructure, political corruption, inequality, racism.

From The Wall Street Journal

His Katrina work culminated in the 2022 book, “Learning from Katrina,” co-written with sociologist Lori Peek, who directs the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, and whom Erikson had tapped as the task force’s associate chair.

From The Wall Street Journal

In their bedroom, a hand-carved teak bed from the Philippines, still showing signs of water damage from Hurricane Katrina, was built by artisans in Nenette’s family.

From Los Angeles Times