Donna Gassie, MPA-Public Representative
Donna Gassie currently serves as director of programs at the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Through the funding of both obesity and tobacco use prevention grants, she oversees programs statewide that work to improve the health of Virginia’s youth. Donna also consults with nonprofits and governments, both domestic and international, providing fundraising, proposal writing, board development and capacity-building workshops. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards over the past 20 years. She received her bachelor of social work and her master of public administration degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University.