Raven McNeil

Raven McNeil serves as Volunteer Coordinator at Jewish Family Services' Harvey Korn Booth Jewish Food Pantry in St. Louis, Missouri. In this role, she facilitates the volunteers' experience and leads positioning and workload throughout pantry operations to combat food insecurity in the St. Louis County region. With over 10 years in nonprofit work, McNeil previously spent nearly 8 years at Big Brothers Big Sisters, where she supported young adult and K-12 youth with their participation in programming, ensuring quality experiences and operations support. She is also an author outside of her professional role, having self-published two books on Amazon: Surviving You, Owning Our Story, which provides a shared power experience for readers to navigate personal challenges, and Glow Anyway, an artistic poetry collection. McNeil earned her bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and her master's degree in communication management from Webster University. She began but did not complete a doctoral program at Maryville University. McNeil attributes her success to her son as a first-generation professional emerging from poverty, and she values the career advice that success stems from hard work rather than innate knowledge.