Lorenza joined Carbon Co-op in March 2023 as the Energy Commons team lead.
She is a qualified architect and urban designer with an MSc in environmental and energy science. Her career spans across two decades developing solutions to combat climate change with a focus on just energy transition. She has worked both with the private and public sectors, supporting them to produce in cooperation with their communities, innovative projects.
Between 2020 and 2022 Lorenza worked on Oldham Energy Futures, a Google Foundation project that used innovative urban data mapping to inform householder engagement and spatial energy planning within the Westwood and Sholver areas of Oldham.
She is also a founding householder member of the co-operative and former director of workers’ co-operative URBED.