Dunne also worked as the Director of Marketing for the Vermont-based software company Logic Associates , Inc from 1997 to 2000 . In addition , he served as the Associate Director of the Nelson A . Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College from 2002 to 2006 . In 2007 , Dunne took a job at Google as a community affairs consultant and was swiftly promoted to Head of Community Affairs for the entire company in 2008 .
Dunne says that after he received the promotion from Google , they asked him to relocate to California to work at their main corporate office . Dunne flatly refused the offer , and opted instead to set up a satellite office in Vermont . Throughout the duration of his stint at Google , Dunne took the lead in a series of community engagement and technological rollout projects , and also ran for the office of Governor of Vermont for the first time in 2010 . According to Dunne , the time he spent working at Google heightened his awareness of the growing disparities between digital economies in rural and urban areas . “ As Head of Community Affairs for Google , I worked primarily with Data Center communities , which are usually economically-depressed
communities in rural areas . I began to perceive a noticeable gap between the opportunities that were available for people who lived in high-density urban areas and the opportunities that were available for people who lived outside of major cities .”
After Dunne left Google in 2016 , he served as a Fellow at the Center for Legal Innovation at the Vemont Law School . He also ran for the office of Governor of Vermont for a second time . Several months after Dunne conceded the gubernatorial primary , he took a job as Head of Community Strategy at the Laboratory for Social Machines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 . “ My work there really dug into the issues of the growing urban-rural economic divide ,” says Dunne . “ In the wake of the 2008 recession , policy changes and emergent trends of automation and globalization resulted in a decline of rural entrepreneurship . The recovery period after the recession enabled the creation of millions of jobs , many of which were in the digital tech sector . Unfortunately , nearly all of them were in cities , which further exacerbated the problems that I was already seeing in terms of rural digital development when I first started working at Google . I knew that something had to be done to address it , and I started thinking about ways that I could work to make even more of a difference in that arena .”
It was then that Dunne made the decision to use the skills and connections that he had developed over the course of his multifaceted career to create an organization that worked to address the urban-rural economic opportunity gap . Dunne then began drawing up the plans for the organization that would eventually become CORI . He reached out to Reid Hoffman , the Founder of Linkedin and Mozilla Firefox , who supplied CORI with its first seed grant in 2017 . Dunne says that although he was initially intimidated by the prospect of founding and overseeing his own nonprofit organization , he was nevertheless able to face his fears and summon the motivation necessary to get CORI up and running . “ In college , I enjoyed acting and performed in several experimental productions . The time I spent working in the field of theatre really helped me develop some resilience . If you don ’ t get cast for the role you want , you just keep working and use the rejection as motivation . I also think that
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