Our Team

Rashida Ferdinand
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alex Rothenberg
BDO Finance Management Consultant

Carlos Alegria
BDO Finance Management Consultant

Channing Thompson
Grantwriting Consultant

Cheryl Brickley
Fresh Start Market and Food Pantry Supervisor

Fulgencio Fuentes
Groundskeeper

Isaac Morales
Groundskeeper

Jey Tucaling
Executive Assistant to CEO

Kay Bolden
Grantwriting Consultant

Keith Craft
Park Ranger

Maria Lee Morales
Administrative Assistant

Michelle Wilkerson
Executive Affairs and Special Projects Officer

Millicent Baker
Office Manager

Modou Diagne
Fresh Start Market Associate

Reyna Morales
Groundskeeper

Stephanie LeCharles Hall
Grants Administrator

Chief Science Advisors

Daphne Ferdinand, PhD
Healthy Heart Community Prevention Project

Gary Shaffer, PhD
Wetland Resources

John Day, PhD
Comite Resources and Master Naturalist

Morewell Gasseler, PhD
Xavier University Department of Physics

Robert Lane, PhD
Comite Resources

Board of Directors

Adonis Expose

Bernard Singleton, PhD

Daniela Rivero, Treasurer

Marcia St. Martin

Melissa Lee

Molly Hegarty

Rashida Ferdinand, ex-officio

Terrance Taylor, President

Community Advisory Action Board (CAAB)

Andrea Sanchez-Reese, Chair

Freddie Leslie, Sr.

Linda Rhodes

Minister Keith Craft

Reverend Byron Johnson

Reverend Charles Duplessis

Reverend Darrell Turner

Rosana Seymour, Secretary

Venessa Parker