Well Dunn Foundation helps those entering the entertainment industry
Rather than simply mourn the loss of their late daughter Emily Dunn, metro Atlanta residents Deborah and Chris Dunn are actively carrying on her legacy.
“When people ask me what I’m doing now, I answer, ‘I do Well Dunn,’” Deborah Dunn said with a palpable sense of sadness, tinged with parental pride. “It’s actually what keeps us going.”
Celebrating its 10th year, the Well Dunn Foundation wascreated as an offshoot of Well Dunn Entertainment, the business Emily Dunn formed while she was a student at Washington University in St. Louis. Dunn, who grew up in Atlanta and attended the Lovett School, started Well Dunn to help promote local and national music events.
After graduating from college, she relocated to San Francisco for jobs with event management companySuperfly and the Outside Lands music festival.
In 2011, during one of her frequent phone calls to her mother, “Emily was telling me how much she loved her life and how happy she was with all of her plans,” Deborah Dunn recalled.