Toni talks about her early childhood in Tucson, Arizona, and being raised in a Conservative synagogue.  She shares her journey to New Orleans, finding work there, and starting her family.  Toni describes the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina.  She evacuated to her ex-husband's home in Shreveport with their children, who stayed and enrolled in a Catholic school there.  Toni's home was flooded and badly damaged by the storm.  She reflects on living in Shreveport near her ex-husband, a professor at Tulane University, and attending the same shul services with him and his new wife.  This experience helped Toni grow and learn what she was capable of as a single mother and Jewish woman.  She learned to ask for help and pull together networks for assistance.   As the president of the JCC, she entered the leadership of the Federation on her own terms.  After Katrina, Toni's positioned change.  Tulane reorganized and got rid of adjunct professors, so Toni began teaching math at Dominican High School, an all-girls Catholic School in New Orleans.  She has since returned to a new position at Tulane University as an applied economist.  Toni has also remarried and is settling into a blended family of Orthodox Jews.  After Katrina, Toni has done a great deal of consulting for Total Community Action and speaks about race, class, and the need for social as well as economic capital.  Finally, she reflects on the Jewish community's challenges, giving back to her community, and finding a spiritual home for herself.