Faculty/Staff

Ingrid W. Reed

Reed mostly recently served as a policy analyst, leading the New Jersey Project at Rutgers' Eagleton Institute of Politics until she retired on June 30, 2010. She has a wide range of experiences in state politics and planning, governance and community affairs in her professional and volunteer work. Currently, she chairs the Governor's Task Force on Local Government Ethics and is a founding board member of New Jersey Future. Reed also serves on the board of NJSpotlight.com, a new civic journalism website designed to provide news coverage about critical issues shaping the state and its communities.

While at Eagleton, Reed's work focused on encouraging voter participation and confidence in elections and government. She recently issued a report on New Jersey newspaper coverage of the contests for governor and the legislature in 2005 and 2009. Other work at Eagleton includes a review of the ethics administration in New Jersey, a report on the 2005 and 2007 New Jersey Clean Elections Pilot Program, and studies of television coverage of the 2005 and 2006 New Jersey elections by nightly news programs, election information on county websites and the administration of the 2001 New Jersey election for The Century Foundation. She is frequently invited to write op-ed pieces on New Jersey issues by newspapers covering the current issues in the state.

Before joining the Eagleton Institute in 1996, Reed was vice president for public affairs and corporate secretary of The Rockefeller University in New York City and served as assistant dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she also directed the Rockefeller Public Service Awards Program.