Virginia Vasquez Vought

Senior Executive Director of Community Engagement

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Virginia Vasquez Vought is executive director of central Indiana engagement, connecting people + places + projects + Purdue to advance the university’s land-grant, community engagement mission. Externally, Virginia cultivates and stewards relationships with business, community, and local government leaders and represents the university and its engagement resources on initiatives with local and state stakeholders. Internally, she stewards a network of stakeholders and individuals across campus who engage Purdue externally. Beyond Indiana, she connects corporate social responsibility, foundation, nonprofit, and social innovation leaders with Purdue’s local, global, and internationally renowned engagement work.

Prior to joining Purdue, Virginia spent nearly a decade as a program officer directing multimillion-dollar capital and programmatic grantmaking portfolios disbursing federal, state, and corporate grant funding related to public libraries, behavioral health care, and the development of healthy communities. Her work has included philanthropy, communications, library science, and external relations roles in the nonprofit, education, government, health, publishing, entertainment, and tech sectors. Virginia currently serves as chair of the 2025 United Way of Greater Lafayette campaign, member of Social Innovation Summit Social Innovation Leadership Circle, member of the IU Health West Central Region Community Outreach and Engagement committee, and graduate of Leadership Lafayette, Class 52.