Jody Pellerin served as the executive director of the Xavier High School Foundation from 2004 to 2017, assistant executive director for the Regis-LaSalle Foundation from 1993 to 1998, and director of public support for the American Red Cross, Grant Wood Area Chapter, from 1998 to 2004. Jody joined the Kirkwood Foundation in 2017 as the director of planned and endowed giving. She works with donors to provide long-term support to Kirkwood by endowing or creating planned gifts through life insurance, trusts, charitable gift annuities, bequests and other instruments. Jody earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, and received her Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification in 2001.Jody is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Cedar Rapids Estate Planning Council, Eastern Iowa Planned Giving Council and the Cedar Rapids Downtown Rotary. She is a 2009 graduate of Leadership for Five Seasons and was named one of the Corridor Business Journal’s Forty under 40 in 2006. Jody is married to Joe Pellerin and has a step-son Brendan Pellerin (19).