Dawn Barry (she/her) is a member of the Board of Directors of the Aran Nebula Foundation.

Dawn is a veteran of the biotech industry and an advocate for girls and women in STEM professions. Her current company, Luna, has received numerous awards from notable institutions including the Word Economic Forum and Fast Company for redesigning the biomedical research model by bridging collectives of people with researchers through socially responsible health data sharing. Dawn was an early employee of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, one of the first genomics startups focused on individualized medicine and DNA-based diagnostic testing in the late 1990s. She then spent 12 years helping build Illumina, where she ultimately served as the Vice President of Applied Genomics and led pioneering teams in precision medicine, translational genomics, population genomics, and clinical screening, among others.

Dawn’s accomplishments include being named San Diego Business Journal’s 2017 Business Woman of the Year, giving a talk at TEDxSanDiego 2016, and receiving Girl Scouts San Diego Cool Women award in 2019. She serves on the Board of the Alzheimer’s Association San Diego/Imperial County Chapter, Cardea Bio, and the California Entrepreneurship Task Force, under the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

Dawn holds a BS in biology from the University of Vermont and an MBA from the University of Connecticut School of Business.

She lives in Solana Beach with her husband their two daughters.