Colleen Townsley Brinkmann
Cheif Marketing Officer

Colleen Townsley Brinkmann serves the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) as Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of its marketing, philanthropy, public relations and donor services efforts.

Prior to assuming this role in 2002, Brinkmann was director of communications for Leadership Network for five years. She was also director of communications for the Greater Dallas Community of Churches for eight years, working in tandem with KXAS-TV as producer of Faith Focus. While at the Dallas County Community College District, Brinkmann served as assistant producer for “America: The Second Century,” a 30-part award-winning PBS series that aired nationally for over a decade and won the Bronze Award at the 1980 International Film Festival. She was also named 1989 Innovator of the Year for her creation of a digital technology program.

Colleen Brinkmann frequently speaks on her homeland of India and performed Manipuri classical dance from 1971-1990, when she turned over the role to her daughter. With an American father and an Indian mother, she is equally comfortable in Western and Eastern cultures, and with diverse faith groups. Colleen serves on the CommUNITY Council, Methodist Hospital Systems, Board of Trustees for Dallas HR Management Association, Inc. and Advisory Board for Parkland’s Bluitt-Flowers Health Center.

She resides in Dallas with her husband Barney and savors life with their three grown children. She attended University of the Pacific and earned her BFA from Southern Methodist University.

When not at the Food Bank, Colleen can be found engrossed in her various creative and writing adventures which mirror her philosophy about life - "live life in neon."

Imagine … North Texas Without Hunger