LauraLee Dooley

Bio

As Online Engagement Strategist for WRI, Laura Lee focuses on web analytics, social media and online community development. Laura Lee has been with WRI since 1986, holding positions of growing responsibility. In 1996, she created WRI's first web site, spent the next ten years moving it from a static collection of pages to a dynamic collection of data. She continues to raise our bar of excellence by building online tools and information, providing strategic development advice and measuring engagement of WRI's online community. Laura Lee began working with multimedia communications technologies in the early 1980s, first as a journalist then moving into radio and television and finally into the online space. Prior to joining WRI, she worked in the telecommunications law firm of Fly, Shuebruk, Gaguine, Boros, Schulkind and Braun (Washington, DC; 1983-86), at WKPS-FM and cable-TV station WWNW, New Wilmington, PA (1979-1983), and as assistant to Pennsylvania State Legislator Al Rasco (Pittsburgh, PA; 1978). Prior to that she was an editor/writer for a local newspaper. Laura Lee graduated from Westminster College with a degree in telecommunications and minors in art and religion. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she now lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband, two sons, and two poodles.