Lu Duong is senior manager, Communication and Program Corporate Affairs, for Fund II-UNCF STEM, the Foundation's flagship $48 million investment by private equity investor, Robert F. Smith, within the HBCU Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship unit. He leads the development and execution of communication strategies to enhance, extend and build the program’s brand equity and digital initiatives and serves as the program's primary spokesperson to external stakeholders. He also co-manages the HBCU Silicon Valley Partnership with Google.

Previously, he was manager of GMSP within the Leadership Development group, a $2 billion initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the architect of the GMSP Alumni Advisory Council and Association, an on & offline platform that connects nearly 20,000 Gates Foundation scholars worldwide. He oversaw communications and digital.

Prior to GMSP, Lu managed marketing and communications for the Socrates Society at The Aspen Institute, an emerging leaders platform for executives in all industries including venture capital, technology, education, business and non-profit and as a Congressional Liaison, prior to that, in the Strategic Communications team of CRSC for a large program under Booz Allen Hamilton.

He was communications intern to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gubernatorial Committee Appointments intern to Governor Mark Warner.

He serves on the board of directors for the Pawtricity Foundation in Washington, DC.