As of January 1, 2012

Front Row: Greg Horner, Geraldine Wang, Becca Golden, Mailee Walker, Cecily Kihn
Back Row: Scott Cullen, Tim Crosby, Ron Kroese, Andrew Kang Bartlett

Tim Crosby, Thread Fund
TIM works in the Pacific Northwest on the logistics, policy, and financing of the regional food system. Tim is the Network Coordinator for the Puget Sound Food Network, helped develop the Good Food Coalition that is a multi-issue coalition focused on state food policy, and has developed a community capital network to align regional investors interested in food and farming with the food and farm business in need of investment. Tim is also a partner with Social Venture Partners. He lives in Edmonds with his wife and two daughters, and coaches two soccer teams in his spare time. He attended Kenyon College and holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Tim is a member of SAFSF's Steering Committee and leads the SAFSF Economic Development Study Group.

Scott Cullen - Co-Chair, GRACE Communications Foundation
SCOTT is the Executive Director of GRACE Communications Foundation which highlights the interconnections of food, water and energy, educating consumers, advocates and policy makers through web-based initiatives like the Ecocentric blog, Eat Well Guide, The Meatrix, Sustainable Table, Meatless Monday, Healthy Monday and Kids Cook Monday. The Foundation is focusing on supporting efforts to re-build community-based food production and regional food distribution networks as well as increasing public awareness of how sustainable agriculture contributes to social, environmental, economic and personal health. Scott is a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Grantmakers Association as well as the Vermont Law School Environmental Advisory Board.

Becca Golden – Co-Chair, Ben & Jerry's Foundation
REBECCA is the director of programs at the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, located in South Burlington, VT. Under Becca’s tenure, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation has become a leader in progressive corporate philanthropy and a pioneer of employee-led grantmaking programs. The foundation is interested in furthering social justice, protecting the environment and supporting sustainable food systems by supporting grassroots progressive social change organizations around the country. Becca is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Greg Horner, Cedar Tree Foundation
GREG is a program officer at the Cedar Tree Foundation in Boston, where he focuses on sustainable agriculture grantmaking across the U.S. Over the past five years at Cedar Tree he has developed grantmaking initiatives focused on farmer training and urban agriculture, among others. Greg has worked for nonprofits in experiential education, science, and land conservation. He is a Middlebury College graduate, and he earned a Master’s degree in Natural Resources Policy from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & the Environment. He is also a co-chair of the SAFSF Steering Committee. Greg lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife, two young girls and three backyard chickens.

Gail Imig, W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Andrew Kang Bartlett, Presbyterian Hunger Program
ANDREW has worked with the Presbyterian Hunger Program in Louisville, KY since 2001. Andrew's prior work was with non-profit organizations primarily in Japan and San Francisco focusing on social and economic justice issues, including rural development and agricultural policy. He has studied in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico and Central America, and lived in East Asia working with the Koreans in Japan on their civil rights struggles. He serves on the boards of SweatFree Communities and Shalom Seed Sanctuary.

Cecily Kihn, Agua Fund, Inc.
CECILY manages the Agua Fund, a family foundation which concentrates on environmental protection in the Shenandoah River watershed in Virginia and on social services for the vulnerable elderly in Washington, DC. She is on the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, and is chair of the Ag Workgroup of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network. Over the course of her career, Cecily has worked in the US Senate, the US Department of Interior, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Island Press. She has a Masters in Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Harvard. She is a longtime resident of Center City, a Democratic committeeperson in Ward 8, and a Board member of the Philadelphia Orchard Project.

Ron Kroese, The McKnight Foundation
RON is the director of The McKnight Foundation’s environment program. Previously he served as executive director of Minnesota Environmental Partnership; executive director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology in Montana; director of the St. Croix Valley Foundation in Hudson, Wisconsin; and environmental program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan. In 1982 he co-founded the sustainable agriculture organization, Land Stewardship Project (LSP), serving as executive director for 11 years. Prior to LSP he worked as a reporter for newspapers in South Dakota and Hawaii and served as a press aide in Washington, DC to Sen. James Abourezk (D – SD).

Mailee Walker, Claneil Foundation
MAILEE is the executive director of the Claneil Foundation, which aims to create healthy communities in the Philadelphia Region by awarding grants to nonprofit organizations. Before Mailee came to the Foundation in 2007, she served as vice president, communication/program officer of the Wachovia Regional Foundation. She has served as executive director of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program and project coordinator for the Neighborhood Improvement Initiative in California. Mailee earned a BA in urban studies from Stanford University and an MBA in change management from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. Mailee is co-chair of the Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Philadelphia Chapter and a board member of Delaware Valley Grantmakers.

Geraldine Wang, William Penn Foundation
GERALDINE is the director of the Environment and Communities program at the William Penn Foundation, in Philadelphia, PA. The program’s goal is to “promote vital communities within a healthy regional ecosystem.” The program integrates two priority funding areas, community development and environment, under a smart growth framework that seeks to work across sectors and political boundaries. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1996, Gerry worked to revitalize communities and to protect lands for public use in urban and rural areas at the Trust for Public Land’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. Gerry received her MA in urban planning from the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Historic Preservation. She currently serves as co-chair of SAFSF’s Steering Committee.