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Lori Dunn Highlight
About Lori
- I’ve always been passionate about social impact, which has been the throughpoint for my career path.
- I started my career exploring a few different avenues—I worked as a wedding photography assistant, a retail associate in a department store, and then a stage manager at Disneyland.
- I wasn’t really sure what to do next and I wanted to get into the social impact space, so I joined the Peace Corps, hoping to gain more direction there.
- Unsure if I could build a career in social impact with the experience I had, I decided to go back to school and earned two master’s degrees in global impact and conflict studies.
- I eventually found myself in the world of startups and sales while still being involved with social impact.
- That path led me into decarbonization, where I worked to help decarbonize buildings and the electrical grid, ultimately increasing our capacity for renewable energy.
- I now work as the chief operating officer at Optimus Technologies, a company focused on decarbonizing the heavy-duty diesel engine.
