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Laura Zapata

Co-founder & CEO
Clearloop

Laura Zapata is the co-founder and CEO of Clearloop, a Nashville-based carbon solutions platform expanding access to solar energy, helping companies reclaim their carbon footprints, and clearing carbon from our grid. Laura made a career in crisis comms and reputation management as Uber Eats head of global communications, Press Secretary for Hillary for America’s 2016 campaign in Ohio, and communications director for TN Senator Phil Bredesen. She applies a reputational lens to helping organizations of all sizes take tangible climate action and ensure that the environmental, health and economic benefits of new solar projects reach American communities otherwise being left behind. Laura is a Dartmouth grad who immigrated to Memphis, TN with her family from Colombia when she was 10 years old.

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Events featuring Laura Zapata
Events featuring Laura Zapata