Laura Jellum

Outreach & Communications Manager, Food Forward

Laura Jellum is the Outreach & Communications Manager at Food Forward. She began her career in music marketing where she spent ten years managing radio campaigns for new and emerging artists. A re-relocation to Los Angeles and a passion for addressing food waste brought her to Food Forward in 2014, first as a volunteer and then as the Volunteer Manager. She now oversees Food Forward’s large volunteer program, which hosts 160 produce recovery events each month, and handles internal and external communications for the organization. She is Vice President of Membership for Directors of Volunteers in Agencies – Los Angeles (DOVIA-LA) and has served on Occidental College’s Community Partner Advisory group. The rest of her time is spent hiking in her neighborhood of Altadena, traveling to places near and far, and eating her way across the greater Los Angeles area.