Jonathan Lucas is the Finance Director for Hudson Pride Center. Jon is a strategic leader, responsible for organizing, directing, summarizing and interpreting all financial information to support reporting, growth, and decision-making of the organization. Since 2011, he has held many interim roles on the staff and the Board of Trustees at the Center. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and moved to New Jersey in 2001 and to Jersey City in 2005. He is an alumnus of DePaul University where he studied accounting, computer science and music. Jon retired from Pfizer in 2010 after a career in Information Science and Specialty Analytics. Among his many hobbies & interests, some of his favorites are cooking, fashion design, and social Justice. Jon has also received numerous local, state, and national recognition/honors for LGBTQ+ advocacy and community activism.