Bringing a diverse background in science, technology and communications to CCC, Lorrie helps to build CCC’s financial, program planning, consortia, and sponsored research strategies. In previous professional incarnations Lorrie was Director of Communications at the Media Lab, a process development scientist in the bio pharmaceutical industry; an acquisitions/development editor, marketing manager, and cover illustrator at O’Reilly Media; a senior editor at Nature Publishing Group; and Manager of Programs at the Boston R&D lab of mobile network operator Orange S.A. Lorrie holds a B.S. in Animal and Veterinary Science from the University of Maine and in her spare time she makes jewelry, paints watercolors, photographs the world, and trains her corgi to do silly tricks.