Anne Montague

Executive Director / Founder

Anne returned to West Virginia after working in other states and internationally. She received two M.A. degrees without having to finish the B.A. based on professional-level research, writing and contributions. After an M.A. from Harvard Univ, she was a partner in a Boston-area firm commercialized technologies. She founded a nonprofit based on work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to find technologies to clean and use sediments from navigable waters. She is recognized for good ideas and to work to bring them to reality. Her mother, a Rosie, and her grandfather, a one-room teacher and carpenter on the C&O Railroads influenced Anne to create ways for people to do quality work cooperatively, such as the Rosie the Riveter Project.