CARIE LEMACK
Carie Lemack is a serial social entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience leading organizations and forums that empower people from underrepresented backgrounds to speak out on issues impacting their community. Carie is a co-founder of the Zed Factor Fellowship, which provides aspiring aerospace professionals with internship opportunities, co-founder of DreamUp, which encourages the next generation of space innovators through space-based educational opportunities, and a mentor and advisor to aerospace and deep-tech founders.
In 2001, Carie co-founded and led Families of September 11. She is also co-founder of the Global Survivors Network and producer of Killing in the Name, an Academy Award-nominated documentary film. Carie has testified before both houses of Congress and has been interviewed on/by CNN, BBC, NPR, Fox News, al Jazeera, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe and The Guardian, and other publications.
Carie holds an MPA from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford, and Bachelors in symbolic systems from Stanford. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow at GW's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and is a lifelong member of Red Sox nation.