Jody Struve, communications associate, joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2000. Before joining the Pioneer Portfolio in 2010, she contributed to the Foundation's Connect Project, which works with RWJF grantees to build relationships with members of Congress and other policy-makers, thereby highlighting grantees’ work and positioning them as key resources on pressing health and health care issues.
Struve received her BA, summa cum laude, from Rider College. Born in Chicago, she and her wife, Erinn Auletta, a middle school teacher, live in Lambertville, New Jersey with their two young children.