Darlene Damm has worked with Ashoka, the world’s largest organization of social entrepreneurs, since 2007. In addition, she is a co-founder of the Matternet, an aeronautics company creating a new transportation paradigm using autonomous aerial vehicles, and DIYRockets, an initiative to open up the space industry to all by lowering the cost of space technology and seeding space initiatives across the world. Previously, Darlene launched Asia Society Young Professionals for the Asia Society Washington Center, developed a service-learning program for an experimental high school in Burma, managed cross-cultural leadership programs for Volunteers in Asia/Stanford University, developed an overseas education program for American teenagers in Vietnam and served as a Fellow with Japan-US Community Education and Exchange in Tokyo. She received her bachelor's degree in History from Stanford University, her master's degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and studied at the Singularity University in the Silicon Valley.
