
Enabling Tech Innovators to Solve the World's Biggest Challenges I Author of Your Dream Job is Here: The Impact Technology Revolution and New Jobs Saving the World | Singularity Fellow and former VP of Impact |
Darlene Damm is an impact-driven visionary who pioneered the impact technology industry. She co-founded two of the world’s first impact technology companies in aerospace and drone transport, and as Faculty Chair and Vice President of Community and Impact at Singularity University, taught and mentored thousands of founders and executives who went on to build impact technology companies in every industry including Ag Tech, Food Tech, Ed Tech, Climate Tech, Gov Tech, Health Tech, and more. Darlene served in leadership, strategy, operational, and expert roles with Singularity, Ashoka, the World Bank, nonprofits in Vietnam and Myanmar, and has spoken about impact technology at the United Nations, the World Food Programme, SXSW, Google, Salesforce, Intuit, WalMart, Sony, Aramco and delivered TedX talks in Vilnius and Budapest. She has written articles for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Spiceworks, the OECD Forum, the Qatar Foundation and GRIT Daily. A number of news outlets including TechCrunch, Fast Company, Venture Beat, Wired, Popular Science, Aviation Week, NPR, Gigacom, Forbes, MoonandBack, engadget, The Denver Post, Le Monde and 60 Minutes have covered her work in drones, rocketry and Singularity University impact technology projects. Darlene received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), was a fellow with Japan-US Community Education and Exchange, is an advisor to the UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, was a mentor with Google’s impact accelerator, a judge for Stanford BASES, and served on the Biden Administration’s Working Group on Cross Border Trade. She holds patents in drone technology and Authority Magazine featured her as a social impact hero.
worldbank.org
asiasociety.org
su.org
ashoka.org
matternet.com
viatech.com
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Entrepreneur in Residence
Edge Collaborative
• www.linkedin.com/company/edge-collaborative
Apr 2024 - Present
Venture Scout
Various Funds
Dec 2023 - Present
Fellow and former Faculty Chair, Global Grand Challenges
Singularity University
• www.linkedin.com/company/singularity-university
May 2014 - Present
Mountain View, California, United States
Vice President of Community and Impact
Singularity University
• www.linkedin.com/company/singularity-university
Feb 2016 - Sep 2023
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Consultant
The World Bank
• www.linkedin.com/company/the-world-bank
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Brazil
Co-Founder and Director
DIYROCKETS, Inc
Jan 2012 - Dec 2019
Mountain View, CA
Writer and Mentee
Ambassador Roland Eng, Royal Embassy of Cambodia to the United States
Jan 2002 - Dec 2004
Washington, D.C.
Program Leader, Service Learning and Volunteering
Pre Collegiate Program, Myanmar Foundation for Analytic Education
Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma)
Fellow, Nichibei Pathfinding Opportunity Program
Japan Community Education and Exchange
Jan 1999 - Dec 1999
Tokyo, Japan
Hanoi Foreign Language University (Chuong Dai Hoc Ngoai Ngu)
Teacher
Jan 1996 - Dec 1996
Hanoi, Vietnam