Lora O’Connor
Lora is one of the nation’s leading strategists in movement making and convening for social good. She is an experienced chief strategy officer with a demonstrated history of working in the civic and social organization fields. She is a strong business development professional skilled in corporate social responsibility, grassroots, political and community organizing, social entrepreneurship, sustainable business, resource development and media/ event production.
Currently, Lora is working on several projects, including executive producer at Inaugural National Youth Action Summit – BridgeBuilders, where she leads the development of partnerships and resources as well as programming design and development of a national platform for high school-aged organizers and activists to convene and share regularly. For the last three years, she has also been the Associate Producer of the Dolores Huerta Film Project. And, over the past two years Lora has been Managing Partner, Stakeholder Engagement for Shelectricity, an initiative teaching black and brown middle school girls the skill of innovation.