THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT - Key Persons


Alice Waters - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Chef, Author
Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. She founded the Edible Schoolyard Project in 1995 - combining her perspectives as a trained Montessori teacher, fervent political activist, gifted chef, and champion of sustainable agriculture. Her vision is grounded in the following key principle: children deserve to be nurtured in body and mind, treated with dignity, and shown that they are valued. To spend time in an Edible Schoolyard is to realize how much more is going on here than teaching kids how to garden or cook. Kids begin to learn about food in all its dimensions - as an edible medium of culture, science, ecology, and even social justice. The Edible Schoolyard is an eloquent and practical answer to some of the most pressing questions facing us as a society.

ASHLEY ROUSE

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

AUBREY KIMBALL

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Farm Manager

CARRIE COTTINI

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Deputy Director of Development

CRAIG McNAMARA

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

ESTHER COOK

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Chef Teacher

GRETA CARUSO

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

GRISELDA COONEY

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Operations and Development Coordinator

GWYNETH BORDEN

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

HENRIK JONES

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

IMANUELLE JONES

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Chef Educator

JAMES ALEFANTIS

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

JASON BADE

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

JENNA QUAN

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Program Manager - Edible Schoolyard Berkeley

JENNIFER SHERMAN - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations
  • Finance

JENNY GARCIA

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member

JESS BLOOMER

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Garden Manager

JIM KREISSMAN

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

JONATHAN MOSCONE

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

JOSÉ ANDRÉS

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT ADVISORY BOARD

JULIA PAIGE

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Chef Educator

KIRSTEN STROBEL

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development and Communications

LIESHA BARNETT

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Farm Education Manager

LINDA BURCH

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • CEO, Alice Waters Institute

MICHAEL ABLEMAN

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT ADVISORY BOARD

MICHAEL POLLAN

Job Titles:
  • Journalist and Author

NEIL SMITH

Job Titles:
  • Member of the EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT BOARD

NICHOLAS LEE

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Program Director - Stockton

NICOLE LEWIS

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • CSA Coordinator

PATRICIA MOK

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Family Nights Out Coordinator

RAQUEL VIGIL

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Director of Learning

RUSSELL STERTEN

Job Titles:
  • Community Manager

SOPHIA FOX

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member

TAMIKA WHITENACK

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member

TAÍS REIS

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member

TONYA JOWERS

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Farm Specialist

YAEL CYPERS

Job Titles:
  • STAFF Member
  • Procurment Director, Alice Waters Institute