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

She currently serves as Head of Editorial Services at the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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.

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

She previously served as global Editorial Director at Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’ award-winning global media and entertainment company, expanding the company’s work in television and film into digital storytelling.

She was the producer of Google’s virtual reality series Project Empathy, which used immersive media 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 strategy, 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 has given lectures on media, journalism, and writing at Claremont McKenna College, Antioch University, and others.

She has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, and 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.