ALUMNI PROFILE
A Career Connected by Purpose
By Carrie Hilger
Through what has so far been an incredibly diverse career, Lara Marion ’07 J.D. seems to always find herself “at the intersection of something.”
allows her to do what she loves doing best: being a connector of people. It was a skill she helped hone through learning how to make a case at the St. Thomas School of Law. “I'm always right in the center, not really in any of the full bubbles,” she said. “It's really cool. You get to learn a lot of interesting things.”
That ability to connect people and ideas has shaped a purpose-driven career that has taken Marion from Minnesota to Washington, D.C. and now North Carolina, and through roles working as an advocate within the legislature, government agencies, public interest organizations and nonprofits that aim to further the
Just where she likes to be.
That’s because being right in the center of things like industry and policy, or industry and academia,
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