Jon Ford
Senior Outreach Manager, Community Engagement and Analysis, Arizona, Hawaiʻi, and the Pacific Territories
Jon Ford is senior outreach manager for Arizona, Hawaiʻi, and the Pacific Territories in Community Engagement and Analysis at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In this role, Jon is responsible for engaging communities and connecting with a broad range of community development stakeholders to understand the economic experiences of lower-income households and communities. He works to elevate emerging issues and innovative approaches that promote economic opportunity through shared learning, community conversations, and cross-sector partnerships.
Jon brings more than three decades of for-profit and nonprofit experience to his work. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Jon spent 15 years at Vitalyst Health Foundation building a stakeholder network and developing strategic initiatives focused on wellbeing. He has extensive experience communicating issues and ideas that stems from 18 years in advertising and public relations.
Jon earned a master’s degree in business administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.