Lori Kozlowski is an editor, writer, producer, and media executive, exploring storytelling in all of its forms. For 20 years, she has led teams in various forms of media, focused on human rights, popular culture, technology, innovation, climate change, and the natural world.

In 2021, she became a Terra Climate Fellow, studying climate change, science, policy and the stories we tell about the environment.

In 2017, she founded More Light Media, a new media company focused on producing original works, as well as working with startups, brands, and NGOs on various forms of storytelling. As part of her work for More Light, she served as the Director of Global Content for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, helping to reshape the 50 year-old NGO’s storytelling around the globe, and showing the connections between people, animals, and the planet, especially in the face of global climate change.

She served as Editorial Director at Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’ award-winning global media and entertainment company.

She was the producer of Google’s virtual reality series Project Empathy, which used VR to explore social justice issues. The project was funded by Google and premiered content with The Atlantic and at the Democratic National Convention.

She served as Editorial Director at entertainment and music management company Atom Factory, leading the company’s first media division, and co-founded Smashd, a publication and platform about the intersection of culture, music, and technology.

Previously, she was an editor and columnist for Forbes, covering entrepreneurs, technology, and the startup world.

Prior to Forbes, she was senior editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she headed digital and content strategies, mobile technology, and emerging platforms for the media company.

She has been on staff at Entrepreneur Magazine, has worked with MIT Media Lab startups, and has served as adjunct faculty at Chapman University and the University of Southern California.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, and earned a bachelor’s degree from the Claremont Colleges in California. She has lived in Las Vegas, London, Seattle, New York, and she currently resides in Los Angeles.