Reason Foundation

Vice President, Development
Reason Foundation
victoria.hughes@reason.org

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Bio

Victoria Hughes joined the Reason Foundation as vice president for development in April 2012, bringing with her 25 years of fundraising experience and a deep commitment to advancing liberty.

Prior to joining Reason, Victoria served as a consultant with the firm A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates, advising nonprofits how to improve their fundraising operations. In 1999, Victoria established the Bill of Rights Institute. During her 11 years as president, the Institute grew from a business plan to a major national educational organization that provided more than 40,000 teachers with instructional material on the founding documents.

She has also served in senior executive roles at the Charles Koch Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Heritage Foundation, the Reagan-Bush ’84 Campaign and Presidential Inaugural Committee, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and the U.S. Information Agency.

Victoria lived three years in Barbados, where – as the wife of the United States Ambassador – she actively participated in many charitable activities benefiting the people of the Eastern Caribbean.

Victoria began her career as a classroom teacher and has taught in suburban Cincinnati, Boston, and inner city Washington, D.C. She earned her degree in education from the University of Dayton.