Jennifer Ford Reedy

Jen is the president for the Bush Foundation. She provides overall strategic direction and leadership for Bush and ensures that board and staff are aligned and functioning well together.

Jen joined Bush in 2012. Her experiences include serving as chief of staff and vice president of strategy for the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, where she led the creation of GiveMN and Give to the Max Day. Jen was also a consultant with McKinsey and Company for 9 years and directed the Itasca Project, a CEO-led regional civic initiative in the Twin Cities.

She is super into foundation strategy and history and teaches a philanthropy 101 class for the Minnesota Council on Foundations and is faculty for the New Foundation Executive programming for the national Council on Foundations.

Her other current volunteer roles include serving on the boards of the Council on Foundations and GroundBreak Coalition, the Executive Leadership Council for the Itasca Project and as an enthusiastic election judge. She has been honored as a “40 Under 40” leader by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Business Journal, as one of the “100 Minnesotans You Should Know” by Twin Cities Business Magazine and as a NextGen Fellow by Independent Sector.

Jen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.

She feels lucky to have a job in which she gets to meet and learn from so many people who are working to make the world work better for everyone. She has 2 great kids and 1 great husband.