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Zach Rodvold

Zach Rodvold

Zach Rodvold has worked in state and federal government, political campaigns and issue advocacy for more than 20 years, starting in the office of U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone. He served as state director for U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and later as director of external affairs for the DFL House caucus under former Speaker Paul Thissen. Most recently, Rodvold led the Minnesota office of U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, whose 2018 campaign he also managed. Rodvold joined Second Harvest Heartland as its director of Government Affairs in 2023.

COMMENTARY

Legislature made progress on hunger, but there’s more to do
By: - June 2, 2023

Our mission at Second Harvest Heartland is to end hunger together. For the past several years, that has driven the organization to innovate and grow rapidly so we could serve even more Minnesotans facing food insecurity. We provided 113 million meals in 2022 and are on pace to do even more in 2023 in response […]

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The Legislature can do more to address hunger
By: - April 18, 2023

As one of my first orders of business as the new director of government affairs for Second Harvest Heartland, I took to these pages in early February to express our enthusiasm for some of the big-ticket items moving through the Legislature, as well as our disappointment that those investments alone would not be enough in […]

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Walz and the Legislature are tackling hunger — a few tweaks could mean even more progress
By: - February 6, 2023

The late Sen. Paul Wellstone talked about public policy, electoral politics, and grassroots organizing as the ingredients for change that are “linked like the three legs of a stool.” Referring to that stool, Wellstone taught us that community organizing and electoral politics without a clear public policy agenda leads to a politics devoid of direction. […]

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