In addition to the Packard Foundation, she is a current or previous board member of several prominent nonprofit organizations including Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
She also served on the Hewlett-Packard board for 7 years (1993–2001),[1] leaving shortly before the Compaq merger.
[4] After spending time as an economist at the National Institutes of Health, she obtained a master's degree in computer science from New Mexico Tech.
[5] She is married to Franklin Orr, who was Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the Obama administration,[6] and is a professor emeritus at Stanford.
[10] Other nonprofit boards that Orr has served on include the Audubon Society,[11] the Monterey Bay Aquarium,[12] the Packard Humanities Institute,[13] the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health,[14] and Stanford University.