Lori has been a member of the Women's Fund since 2022. She has a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Colorado and a degree in Computer Science. She has worked as a computer programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory. She has spent the last fifteen years owning and working in a small engineering software company which sold in 2018. Previous Lori has volunteered as board member of the Albuquerque Academy Parents Association, heading the newsletter and library committees. She and her husband Ken moved to Santa Barbara in 2009 and have two sons, Hurst (Carbondale, CO) and Alex (Irving, CA).