Lori Stole

Manager, Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative - Zero Waste Alliance

Lori has been involved with sustainability and related issues since 1995.

Currently she manages the Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative (SOSI), and in 2005 was instrumental in defining it as a comprehensive statewide program. Her school sustainability journey began with Oregon’s third largest district, Beaverton, where she’s a parent. With a sustainability taskforce she designed a district sustainability program, with which she continues to be involved.

Prior to her involvement with schools, she worked for several years with product stewardship solutions to the electronic waste problem, serving as staff to the Western Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI).

Lori has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and worked for over a decade in the semiconductor and plastics industries in the US and in Germany. She’s also a freelance musician and plays violin in several orchestras in Oregon. After working, climbing, kayaking and biking in various places around the world she came to Oregon in 1986. Her twins enter high school next year.