Leadership and Board

Trisha Cunningham

President and CEO

Trisha Cunningham is President and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB), a $200 million nonprofit focused on eradicating hunger in a diverse 13-county service area. It is estimated that 640,000 in this area do not know where they will find their next healthy meal. Through direct and feeding partner programs, Cunningham and the NTFB team of 180 employees and thousands of volunteers provided access to 144 million meals in their most recent fiscal year. 

Prior to North Texas Food Bank, Cunningham was a 30-year global marketing, communications, branding, and public affairs executive at Texas Instruments where she most recently served as Chief Citizenship Officer. While there, she founded the Dallas Fort Worth Corporate Citizenship Network creating a collaborative model for area corporations to strengthen social impact and sustainability.

Cunningham currently serves as a director for Feeding Texas (chair), the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Dallas Chapter, and formerly on the board for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. She is a member of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance where she is on the faculty for the Nonprofit Governance Certificate Program, Leadership Women, Rotary Club of Park Cities, Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC) Executive Women’s Roundtable, DRC Leadership Dallas Alumni, United Way Women of Tocqueville, and The Dallas Assembly. She serves on national Feeding America committees where the North Texas Food Bank is a member.

Cunningham was named as a Dallas Business Journal’s 2020 Women in Business honoree and 2020 Most Inspiring Leader, DCEO’s Dallas 500 Most Influential Business Leaders in 2019 and 2020, Elite News 2020 Women of Wisdom honoree, Dallas Regional Chamber’s Leadership Dallas 2019 Distinguished Alumni, the Junior League of Collin County’s 2019 Nonprofit Executive of the Year, Plano Magazine’s 2019 Girl Boss and a Leadership Women Director Emeritus. Other honors include being named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club of Park Cities, the Lana Garner Porter Women in Technology award from Murray State University, 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Executive of the Year by CNM Connect, and a 2013 Women Leading Greater Good honoree by Alliance for Greater Works. Cunningham earned an NACD Governance Fellow accreditation, UT Dallas Nonprofit Governance Certificate, and is a graduate of the IWF Fellows program, Leadership Dallas, Leadership Texas, and Leadership International. She was also recently named a 2023 recipient of the Murray State University Distinguished Alumni Award, the university’s highest honor an alumnus or alumna can earn for meaningful contributions to their professions on a local, state, and national level.

Cunningham has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems with an emphasis in business from Murray State University. She and her husband, Greg, have two grown children and reside in Fairview (Collin County).