Matt Dunne served 11 years in the Vermont House and Senate, enacting the state’s first broadband grants, brownfields revitalization funding, and downtown redevelopment program. He helped grow a VT-based software company to more than 100 people and was the associate director of the Rockefeller Center on Public Policy at Dartmouth College.
In 1999, Matt was appointed director of AmeriCorps*VISTA under President Clinton, where he led PowerUp, one of the first national efforts to bridge the digital divide, and launched an entrepreneur corps to focus on micro-finance in high-need communities. In 2007, he started Google’s community affairs division out of a former bread factory in White River Junction, VT, where he led all local U.S. philanthropy and engagement, including the Google fiber rollout and orchestrating educational and development initiatives in Google’s data center communities across rural America.
Matt has a B.A. from Brown University and also held an appointment at the MIT media lab. He is a lifelong Vermonter who lives on the 100 acre farm where he was raised.