Our Team

After growing up in Oregon and finding his passion for food and agriculture at The Mountain School and Yale, Curt moved to Iowa to investigate the role of subsidized commodities in the American obesity epidemic. Read more Cecily is an aspiring urban homesteader who has built opportunities for youth to engage directly with food system advocacy, school gardens, and cooking programs. Read more Julia has an MBA and a graduate Certificate in Public Health with a focus on Nutrition from UC Berkley and served as an Education Pioneers Fellow with our friends at Revolution Foods. Read more Though she was raised in NYC, Kishshana grew a love for urban gardens through her grandma's own vegetable garden. She's spent more than a decade helping lead local and national nonprofit organizations and raising the funds they need to flourish. Read more A Peace Corps alumnus who is now an active school garden parent, Jim previously worked at an international exchange program for high school students. Read more Max grew up in a community where access to healthy foods was limited, and understands first-hand the urgency of driving school-level and systemic change that gives children a healthy start. Read more Prior to working for FoodCorps, Jerusha was an Associate Program Director at Slow Food USA, where she helped design and implement national lifestyle and advocacy campaigns that sought to transform food policy as well as individuals' relationships to food. Read more Michele is a former college basketball star who went on to serve as the Director of Community Health Partnerships and Director of Development at the American Heart Association. Read more Though she now enjoys a plant-based diet, this social impact fundraiser's idea of vegetables as a child was white rice with sugar and butter and cheese grits. Read more Eva previously helped cities increase residents' access to healthy food, taught hands-on food education, started a chef-in-the-classroom program, and made desserts as a pastry chef. Read more Josephine's love of food, people, and culture first interested with her undergraduate thesis in sociology. She's since become a seasoned human resources professional who loves making a delicious meal with her family. Read more Erica spent a decade working as a food and agriculture educator throughout the country and internationally, building networks to connect schools, communities and farms. Read more California-raised and Oregon-based Lucy developed social issue and public health initiatives through her work in non-profit communications and documentary film before becoming one of the first to join the FoodCorps staff. Read more A service member for one year and a fellow for two years, Laura's now taking her farm to school expertise from Maine to all over the northeast. Read more Daniel is grateful to have grown up gathering almost every night around the dinner table with his family to share a homemade meal. Read more Leah was born and raised in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley in central California where she raised goats and held leadership positions in her FFA chapter. Read more Tiffany is from St. Louis, MO but spent five years engaged in outreach efforts to strengthen and advance the movement for equality in Alaska. Read more Robyn is a former FoodCorps service member, then fellow, and now staffer who was dismayed to find elementary students eating unhealthy food provided daily by their school while she volunteered there. Read more Elizabeth grew up riding her pony and enjoying her grandparents' Montana dairy farm. She comes to us after 5 years managing finance and operations at an emergency food and clothing relief program. Read more After getting a Masters of Urban Planning & Policy, Ryan did program evaluation and community research for a wide variety of nonprofits in West Michigan and communities in Chicago. Read more Once an AmeriCorps VISTA, Ashley now has a decade of experience in local food and agricultural systems development, a Master degree in Sustainable Development Planning and Management, and certification in Village Development Permaculture. Read more Luke learned to love the outdoors growing up in Alaska, and has previously worked for FixFood, the USDA, and the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign. Read more Tobia's passion for just and sustainable food systems first sprouted in her parents’ vegetable garden where she discovered that tomatoes don’t grow on supermarket shelves. Read more Hailing from a N.Y. dairy farm family, Erica comes to us by way of the American Farmland Trust, the D.C. School Food Project, and the U.S. Golf Association. Read more Ashton is a former AmeriCorps service member who can often be found browsing cookbooks at the public library or picnicking in NYC parks. Read more Anna studied counseling and eating disorders at Lewis and Clark and wants her son to grow up loving to eat and grow nourishing food. Read more Northwest native Olivia has worked on food justice and youth development with several nonprofits, including as a FoodCorps site Growing Gardens in Portland, OR. Read more While Derryck's not directly responsible for his hometown's deep-fried contribution to American cuisine, he’d like to provide some balance by supporting FoodCorps. Read more Eva entered the world of good food when she started writing about the specialty food industry and simultaneously discovered her local farmers markets. Read more twitter: @SyedAAli blog Born and bred in the concrete jungle of New York City, Syed got hooked on spreading healthy, affordable, and sustainable food while working on the NYC Green Carts initiative. Read more Alexa once managed Kentucky’s largest farmers market and helped farmers market their produce. She's passionate about developing a vibrant local food sector. Read more Kayo grew up in Japan and learned healthy eating habits from her mother, with whom she cooked dishes ranging from simple miso soup to elaborate osechi ryori. Read more Sarah comes from a very food-focused family, so food is always on her mind! Read more Ashley's experience teaching nutrition and gardening lessons to children taught her the power of knowing your food. Read more After growing up in the forests and farms of a D.C. suburb, Mark went on the develop educational programs for kids and encourage healthy food systems in Alabama. Read more FoodCorps seeks an exceptionally motivated candidate to lead, strategically guide and build our fundraising program in the state of Connecticut. Read more FoodCorps seeks an exceptionally motivated candidate to direct our program delivery and development in Connecticut. Read more Reporting to the VP of Finance and Operations, the Grant Finance Manager will be responsible for managing all financial requirements related to tracking and reporting on public and restricted private funding. Read more Document Actions