Dear College of Fine Arts Community,
Please join me in welcoming Sonia Montoya as our new director of the Center for Creative Economies. She’ll be stepping into this role Feb. 1.
As I shared in an earlier message, we’re rebranding the Center for Creative Entrepreneurship as the Center for Creative Economies. Under Sonia’s leadership, we’ll be expanding this portfolio and broadening the focus to include more substantial curricular and co-curricular initiatives to ensure our students have a better awareness of the economies that shape their lives as art makers, scholars, art educators and advocates.
Sonia joins us from the philanthropic sector where she partnered with foundation executives and nonprofit leaders to advance mission-focused work for over a decade. Most recently, she led relationships with foundation executives at The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), where she conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis to surface insights to improve their effectiveness. Prior to CEP, she partnered with nonprofit leaders in creating sustainable financial management strategies at Nonprofit Finance Fund and served as a project administrator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before transitioning to the nonprofit sector, Sonia worked as an actor in film, tv and theater.
Sonia graduated with honors from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in Literature and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was named a Public Service Fellow.
We’re excited she’ll be joining our college, and I hope you’ll join me in extending her a warm welcome as she begins this new role.
Sincerely,
