Kelleen Zubick

Kelleen Zubick serves as Managing Director, Early Childhood and Health Systems for Share Our Strength, a national organization dedicated to ending hunger and poverty.  In this role, she oversees the strategic partnerships and development of initiatives that strengthen the ability of early childhood and health systems to connect low-income children and their families with nutrition assistance, especially SNAP and WIC.  Kelleen expresses values for equity, diversity and inclusion though supporting team members to utilize community involved design, centering equity, and ensuring the voices and needs of parents/caregivers and community are an integral part of programmatic design and practices.

During her 10 years with Share Our Strength, Kelleen has also served as the Senior Director, Health Systems and the Colorado Director for Cooking Matters, a nutrition and food skills education program. Additional highlights of her service have included supporting Share Our Strength’s Conversations on Food Justice series and serving on the Program Team’s EDI Committee.

Prior to joining Share Our Strength, Kelleen was co-founder and Principal Consultant for Mission Spark, a social impact consulting group partnering with private foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on strategy, initiative development and on evaluation approaches. In this capacity, Kelleen developed strategies for summer food access, focusing on removing barriers for low-income families and migrants in rural Colorado.  She also developed a statewide peer mentor program in agritourism for the Colorado Office of Economic Development, and, as Director of Consulting for Community Resource Center, she oversaw Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days, a statewide program focused on increasing philanthropic equity and impact.

Under CO Governor Hickenlooper’s administration, Kelleen was a gubernatorial appointee to the Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council, and she also served as an inaugural Advisory Council Member for Colorado’s Double UP Food Bucks program.  As part of expression of her personal passion for food, Kelleen has served as Vice President for the Les Dames d’Escoffier, Colorado Chapter.  She has also been the Co-Chair of The Root Cause Coalition’s Food Security working group and Treasurer for Feet Forward, a peer-led nonprofit serving the unhoused in Boulder County, CO.

Kelleen has a BA in Child Development and English from Tufts University and an MFA from Arizona State University. Kelleen lives in Colorado but grew up in Brazil where her family distributed food to under-resourced families every day, and this experience fuels her passion to address hunger and food access in the US.