Laurel is Chief of Staff at Living Carbon and has led special projects to evaluate product opportunities for R&D initiatives, such as long-term biological carbon storage and increased metal uptake in plants. Prior to Living Carbon she was a program manager at Google X working on the Bellwether project, which uses AI to predict localized climate risk by applying advanced simulation techniques to Earth observation data. She also worked at Emerson Collective and Davis Polk & Wardwell, and has a JD and MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford.

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