Catherine Lyons is a native Californian living in New Orleans and working as an AmeriCorps member for a nonprofit rebuilding organization. She covers the entrepreneurial community for NolaVie, a sub-section of Nola.com. She has previously written for The Huffington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

With its third annual Entrepreneur Week, New Orleans is ready to establish itself as the nation’s model of entrepreneurship and innovation. Catherine Lyons on the post-Katrina startup culture in the Big Easy.