Torie Nugent-Peterson

Torie Nugent-Peterson is a Fundraising and Marketing Professional with extensive experience in multiple industries. Torie received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at Florida State University before pursuing acting professionally in Chicago, IL. After reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2017 annual report, Torie became increasingly anxious about the future as it related to climate change. She moved to New Orleans and worked with frontline communities advocating against petrochemical expansion in the chemical corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, known as Cancer Alley. After moving to central Louisiana (CenLA) she began working remotely for a national healthcare payment reform non-profit, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR). She spent three and half years developing and leading CPR’s marketing strategy before the shuddering of the beloved LAN project, which CPR was prime-subcontractor to Deloitte, forcing CPR to considerably downsize. Torie feels abundantly blessed to have landed at the New Orleans Film Society where she can marry both her technical expertise as a marketing professional, to learn from an incredible team of leaders about all things fundraising, and to be involved in an industry with her first love, film.