Our Team

Rashida Ferdinand
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alex Rothenberg
BDO Finance Management Consultant

Carlos Alegria
BDO Finance Management Consultant

Cheryl Brickley
Fresh Start Market and Food Pantry Supervisor

Constance Masike
Grants Manager

Fulgencio Fuentes
Groundskeeper

Isaac Morales
Groundskeeper

Jerenel Gutierrez
Executive Assistant

Kay Bolden
Grantwriting Consultant

Mac Sorongon
Staff Accountant

Millicent Baker
Operations Manager

Modou Diagne
Fresh Start Market Associate

Trinity Portley
Fresh Start Market Associate

Reyna Morales
Groundskeeper

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

Rianne Egania

Marcia St. Martin, Secretary

Melissa Lee

Molly Hegarty

Rashida Ferdinand, ex-officio

Terrance Taylor, President

Community Advisory Action Board (CAAB)

Andrea Sanchez-Reese, Chair

Calvin Berryhill

Freddie Leslie, Sr.

Linda Rhodes

Minister Keith Craft

Reverend Byron Johnson

Reverend Charles Duplessis

Reverend Darrell Turner

Rosana Seymour, Secretary

Venessa Parker

Contractors/Consultants

Landix Enterprise LLC – General Contractor

SCAPE Landscape Architect – Planning Services