Lindsay Young Lopez is executive director of The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri, a position she has held since November 2014.
In her role, Lopez leads all operational functions and
serves as the public face of The Food Bank, which has a staff of 64 employees
and holds more than $13 million in assets. She is the third person to serve as
director of the organization, which was founded in 1985. The Food Bank
serves more than 100,000 people monthly in 32 counties and annually acquires
and distributes more than 30 million pounds of food, with a wholesale value of
more than $53 million. It is the only food bank of six in the state of Missouri
and one of few in the country that charges nothing for the food it distributes.
Previously, Lopez spent more than 18 years in higher
education fundraising and advancement at both the University of Missouri and
Columbia College. While at Columbia College, she oversaw the Tradition Meets
Tomorrow Campaign, which raised a record-setting $11.1 million and led to
construction of a state-of-the-art science building.
In October of 2017, Lopez was named the recipient of the Columbia
Daily Tribune Women in Business Professional Excellence award. In
2016, she received the Grand Lodge Order of Elks Distinguished Citizenship
Award. In 2013, Lopez received the Athena Young Professional Award from
the Women’s Network Division of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, she
was selected to the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge, and the Columbia
Business Times named her to its “20 Under 40” honor roll in 2009.
Lopez is active in the Columbia Chamber of Commerce,
currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors. She is also secretary
for the Feeding Missouri Board of Directors, is past president of King’s
Daughters Donna Crockett Circle, is a former member of the Board of Directors
for TRYPS Institute at Stephens College and is involved in numerous volunteer
activities in the community.
A native of Fayette, Mo., Lopez is an alumna of Stephens
College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies with emphasis in political science, marketing and French from the University of
Missouri, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity. She has two
children, Bennett and Kathryn.
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