{"id":240511,"date":"2026-04-21T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:04:07","slug":"second-harvest-of-the-big-bend-ceo-heads-north-to-lead-wisconsin-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240511\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Harvest of the Big Bend CEO Heads North to Lead Wisconsin Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Second Harvest of the Big Bend announced Tuesday that Chief Executive Officer Monique Ellsworth will transition out of her role, effective May 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Ellsworth is stepping down after nearly seven years, leaving the organization to become the CEO of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. <\/p>\n<p>    Leading Second Harvest of the Big Bend has been an incredible honor. I step away with deep gratitude for all we\u2019ve accomplished and full confidence in the organization\u2019s ability to continue ensuring our neighbors have the food and resources they need to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Ellsworth<\/p>\n<p>Ellsworth was named to the food bank&#8217;s top job in October of 2019. Before joining Second Harvest, she was the Chief Executive Officer of the CESC (The Kearney Center). <\/p>\n<p>    Since joining Second Harvest of the Big Bend in October 2019, Monique has guided the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic, three consecutive hurricanes, service expansion into five additional counties, and key infrastructure growth, including our new Impact Center. <\/p>\n<p>Second Harvest of the Big Bend Board Chair Daniel Petronio<\/p>\n<p>Second Harvest of the Big Bend Board of Directors will begin the process of searching for Ellsworth\u2019s replacement in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Reiter will serve as interim CEO with the support of leaders James McGowan and Arun Dhanarajan.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Second Harvest of the Big Bend announced Tuesday that Chief Executive Officer Monique Ellsworth will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,9322,11764,21118,14786,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-240511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-ceo","tag-leaving","tag-monique-ellsworth","tag-second-harvest-of-the-big-bend","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}