Staff Leadership Team
Hunger-Free Minnesota currently has three full-time staff, along with several contract staff, to lead and coordinate campaign activities. Full-time staff include:
Ellie Lucas
Chief Campaign Officer
Ellie Lucas joined Hunger-Free Minnesota in November 2010 as Chief Campaign Officer. She is responsible for overall campaign leadership.
Ellie has 25 years’ experience in public affairs, corporate relations and strategic marketing. Before joining Hunger-Free Minnesota, she was an equity partner in an internet startup, where she led strategic partnerships and designed customized joint marketing programs with EBay, Best Buy and W3i. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President of Tunheim Partners, a public relations agency, where she led strategic corporate and community relations initiatives for Honeywell, Metris, Target Stores, American Express and First Data Corporation.
Ellie serves on the board of directors of The Center for Victims of Torture, a leading international human rights organization; the Children’s Defense Fund scholarship program nomination committee and the Edina Education Fund.
A Minneapolis native, Ellie attended the University of Minnesota and graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a BA in journalism. She lives in Edina and has four daughters.
Jason Reed
Director of Strategy and Corporate Partnerships
Jason Reed joined Hunger-Free Minnesota in September 2010 as Director of Strategy and Corporate Partnerships. He is responsible for business plan strategy and execution of public/private partnerships with local corporations.
Previously, Jason worked for McCann Worldgroup and Ogilvy & Mather, two global marketing communications consultancies, where he led strategy, marketing communications, and business development initiatives for Fortune 500 clients such as General Mills, Kraft Foods and GlaxoSmithKline. He also has a background in public policy and has conducted climate change and land-use planning research for the state government of Maine.
Jason holds a master's degree from Harvard University, where he was the Kwan Fong Scholar in Management, and a BA in journalism from the University of Minnesota. Jason and his wife live in Woodbury.
