Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn is a Lead Program Analyst in the USDA, SNAP, Policy Development Division’s Modernization and Integration Branch. He had over 32 years of experience working with major public assistance programs in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including TANF, SNAP, LIHEAP, and Medicaid eligibility. Jason began as a caseworker in 1990, moved on to policy development in 1996, and eventually became the Director of the Division of Family Support in 2011. Other programmatic experience collected along the way includes child support, child welfare, housing/homelessness programs, and workforce/labor programs. From 2018 to early 2020, Jason was a policy analyst with Kentucky Voices for Health, advocating and lobbying for access to affordable, quality, healthcare coverage and other programs that promote good health (including SNAP). He resumed the Director’s position in April, 2020, and helped navigate programs through the pandemic until his move to the USDA in October, 2022. Jason’s primary goal throughout his career is to help individuals and their families live to their fullest potential. When he’s not working, Jason serves as a member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Activism Advisory Committee as well as a local affordable housing organization. He has three grown sons, and lives on a farm in Franklin County, Kentucky with his wife, Kris, three horses, two donkeys, and one small dog who acts bigger than the largest horses.