Meet the Team

Administrative Team

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the campaign. Read more about them here.

Devon Ahearn, National Programs Coordinator, The Food Project

Katie Blanchard, Student, Carleton College

Tim Galarneau, Program Coordinator, UC Santa Cruz Food Systems Working Group; Statewide Advisor, California Student Sustainability Coalition

Marissa Grossman, National Programs Coordinator, The Food Project

Alli Reed, Student, UC Berkeley

David Schwartz, Student, Brown University

Anim Steel, Director of National Programs, The Food Project

Apply to become a member of the Real Food Challenge Administrative Team.
 

Campaign Steering Committee

Provides strategic direction for the campaign. Members of the Administrative Team also serve on the Steering Committee.

Meghan Cohorst, Student/Farmworker Alliance

Sue DeBlieck, Program Coordinator, Iowa State University Dining; Midwest Regional Coordinator, Real Food Challenge

David Hamilton, Southeast Regional Coordinator, Real Food Challenge

Maggie Lickter, student, UC-Davis

Kristen Markley, National Farm to College Program Manager, Community Food Security Coalition

Damian Parr, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis; Steering Council, Sustainable Agriculture Education Association

Alli Reed, Movement Liaison, United Students for Fair Trade

Cecily Upton, Slow Food in Schools Program Coordinator, Slow Food USA

Apply to become a member of the Real Food Challenge Steering Committee.
 

Regional Field Organizers
Read more about them here.

Shannon Ayala, City College of NY, Northeast Organizer

Elena Dulys, Virginia Tech, Southeast Organizer

Sally Goodman, University of Minnesota, Midwest Organizer

Katelyn Hale, Lewis & Clark College, Northwest Organizer

Lyra Leigh-Nedbor, Montana State University, Northwest Organizer

Kelsey Meagher, UC Irvine, West Coast Organizer

Allison Stewart, Macalester College, Midwest Organizer

Jordan Treakle, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southeast Organizer

Apply to become a Regional Field Organizer.

Advisory Committee

Michael Pollan, professor and best-selling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food.

Vandana Shiva, physicist, feminist, activist, Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy.

Anna Lappé, advocate, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute, best-selling author of Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet.

Daveda Russell, educator, consultant, Senior Project Manager at Pyramid Communications.

John Turenne, former Executive Chef at Yale University, co-designer of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, President of Sustainable Food Systems, LLC.

Tom Kelly, founding member of the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium, Director of the University Office of Sustainability at the University of New Hampshire.