LONNIE REED’s multi-faceted career includes success as a Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker and Legislator. After choosing not to run again for her seat in the Connecticut State House of Representatives, she is pursuing a variety of interests. She has also been appointed by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont to Chair the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Bank. The Green Bank was established to speed the deployment of clean, affordable energy by attracting private investors and reducing the reliance on public money — taxpayer and ratepayer dollars.
The former State Representative won five terms in the Connecticut State House from 2009 to 2019. During her first term in elective office, Representative Reed was chosen one of 40 promising state legislative leaders from across the nation for the prestigious Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by the National Council of State Governments (CSG).As a Connecticut legislator, Reed Co-Chaired the Energy & Technology Committee and was appointed to the Bi-State NY & CT Long Island Sound Committee. Reed helped lead the successful bi-state battle to defeat Broadwater, a floating liquified natural gas plant and 22 mile pipeline proposed for Long Island Sound. She remains actively engaged in efforts to promote regional cooperation and combat climate change.
Reed, while a State Representative was also appointed to the Governor’s Life Sciences Advisory Group within the CT Department of Economic and Community Development. The Group worked to bring the $1.1 Billion Jackson Labs Bioscience research and development venture to Connecticut and strategized to turbo charge the state’s entire Life Sciences sector along with related industries such as Info-metrics, Data Analytics and Medical Device Manufacturing. She remains engaged in those efforts.
Prior to entering elective politics, Lonnie Reed worked as an award winning Newspaper Journalist, Television News Investigative Reporter and Anchor for TV stations including WFSB, Hartford and WNEW, NY and as a contributing correspondent to CBS News. She has been a White House correspondent; hosted Off the Set, a political talk show in NY; been honored repeatedly for her investigative reports. Her awards include tributes from the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Her multiple Emmys include the Primetime Outstanding Special Award for the NBC production, Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie. She has also received myriad film festival prizes for productions that include the top-rated documentary, Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story.
- Reed co-founded Iger/Reed Productions with headquarters in NYC’s Times Square.
- Reed has written, produced and/or directed projects for television networks such as NBC, TNT, The History Channel, A&E/Discovery
- Reed serves on her Community Television Board and champions stations covering important local stories — reporting that has disappeared with the demise of local newspapers.
- Reed’s Justice 40 work promotes projects that bring environmental equity to communities most impacted by toxic emissions from energy, manufacturing, transportation and other pollution sources.
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