Minna Jung

Minna Jung, J.D., is RWJF’s Director of Policy Outreach and in this role, she works within RWJF’s communications department and across different RWJF teams on strategies to engage and inform federal policymakers about RWJF-supported research and programming.  This role includes coordinating with RWJF staff and grantees on a wide range of activities to engage policymakers on specific topics of interest and to train and prepare RWJF grantees to meet with members of Congress.  (It also includes many short trips to our nation’s capital.) 

Most recently, Jung was the senior communications officer on RWJF’s Quality/Equality Team, where she developed and led strategic communication efforts that support the Foundation's goals to improve health care for all Americans. Jung works closely with Foundation grantees like the Dartmouth Atlas Project and the Aligning Forces communities to “communicate what they hope to accomplish and engage the people they need to help them achieve their objectives.”

Jung has worked to integrate communications and program strategies on such projects as health care coverage for uninsured Americans, aging, long-term care, and racial and ethnic health care disparities. She views the Foundation’s role in health and health care as one of having the resources and credibility to not only comment on a problem but also to do something about it, or as she describes it: “make the change that needs to happen.”

Prior to working at the Foundation, Jung was a communications consultant for various foundations and nonprofit organizations. She advised clients on communications strategies and edited a wide range of communications products. She also worked as a communications associate at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York City, in the areas of education, criminal justice, child welfare, and tropical disease research. Earlier, she was a program planner and special assistant at a nonprofit organization in New York City that offered alternative sentences for misdemeanor and felony offenders.

Jung sits on the board of the Communications Network, a nonprofit membership organization for communications professionals working in philanthropy. A published children’s book author, she began her career in publishing as a barely paid editorial assistant, although she loved meeting some of her favorite children’s book authors from her childhood in person.

A graduate of Brown University, Jung survived a legal education from Fordham University School of Law with her writing skills intact, and was admitted to the New York State Bar.

Jung resides in Pennsylvania with her husband, David, a senior marketing manager for a pharmaceutical company. They have two children, Annabel and Eric, who, Jung hopes, will be better at sports than she was as a child (Jung believes this is a low bar). She enjoys reading (everything but fat historical nonfiction books) and writing, and she likes to cook, but not bake.