Soon to come: Valerie Piper and Nancy Montoya discuss their collaboration on the CUREx New Orleans fellowship program in 2006, immediately post-Katrina. Piper, who was then executive director of CUREx, is now the Deputy Assistant for Economic Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Montoya, who oversaw the CUREx New Orleans initiative as the senior community development manager for the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, is now a realtor and private businesswoman in New Orleans who continues to seek out and work with young professionals as a mentor.