工作人员
艺术弗里德里希, 执行董事
A dedicated food activist on many fronts, Art believes food unites us across all cultures and backgrounds. He sees his passion for healthy food as a spiritual matter as well as a basic human right and need. He builds coalitions with diverse groups that show dedication to improving our health landscape. He recognizes the privilege and opportunity provided his race and gender as well as the responsibility to use that to create a more just system for all.
阿特经营着小型食品生意, h呢?elped run sustainable farms with his mother in New Hampshire and his sisters in Massachusetts. He met founder Melissa Contreras (now Markham) in 2009 and helped launch her idea into a full fledged grassroots organization. Art also owns and manages Greenthumb Popcorn, 有机素食超级零食, previously sold throughout the Whole Foods Florida region and in many independent retailers nationwide. |
凡妮莎·雷,一切助理
Vanessa Rae, loyal a customer since 2019, now celebrating one year as part of the UOP team. 两个美食家 & 精通多种语言, her additional favorite past-times include dancing, 阅读, 写作, 作为狗的父母.
Isaiah Ampuero, market assistant, online orders and fashion trendsetter
Isaiah is an incredible musician with a passion for natural beauty and nourishing foods.
丽莎Palley, Superstar volunteer market assistant and new board member for 2023!
Lisa has been a volunteer for over thirteen years with UOP, and helped build a local food movement long before as a member of Bee Heaven Farms CSA and others. 她喜欢看到人们来购物, and always has cooking tips to share on what to do with fun vegetables.
Lisa B. Palley is the principal of Palley Promotes, Inc. a public relations, community outreach and marketing firm based in Miami. Lisa has a rich background in the arts and social services industries, with a specialty in the non-profit sector. After serving as the Director of PR and Marketing for the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center, she opened her own firm Palley Promotes in February, 1995.
Lisa was honored by The Education Fund in 2011, is the Recipient of the 2006 “Marketing the Arts Awards” by the Arts and Business Council of Miami, 和她的母亲, 默娜, 在2012年被评为 与众不同的女性n bestowed by Plaza Health Network of the Hebrew 沙巴体育app官方版s Health Network. 2014年,她被评为伦敦金融城最优秀的女性 最好的宣传 《沙巴体育APP》,2005年 强大的女人 《沙巴体育APP》.
In addition to working professionally in the non-profit world side-by-side with staff, 社区领袖, 董事会及委员会成员, Lisa also volunteers with Girl Scout Troop 1239/Miami Beach, 热带沙巴体育APP女童子军, 城市绿洲项目, 白银骑士, Miami Arts Marketing/Arts and Business Council, 在其他组织中.
Lisa B. Palley is the principal of Palley Promotes, Inc. a public relations, community outreach and marketing firm based in Miami. Lisa has a rich background in the arts and social services industries, with a specialty in the non-profit sector. After serving as the Director of PR and Marketing for the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center, she opened her own firm Palley Promotes in February, 1995.
Lisa was honored by The Education Fund in 2011, is the Recipient of the 2006 “Marketing the Arts Awards” by the Arts and Business Council of Miami, 和她的母亲, 默娜, 在2012年被评为 与众不同的女性n bestowed by Plaza Health Network of the Hebrew 沙巴体育app官方版s Health Network. 2014年,她被评为伦敦金融城最优秀的女性 最好的宣传 《沙巴体育APP》,2005年 强大的女人 《沙巴体育APP》.
In addition to working professionally in the non-profit world side-by-side with staff, 社区领袖, 董事会及委员会成员, Lisa also volunteers with Girl Scout Troop 1239/Miami Beach, 热带沙巴体育APP女童子军, 城市绿洲项目, 白银骑士, Miami Arts Marketing/Arts and Business Council, 在其他组织中.
Ms. Shirley, dedicated volunteer fruit pusher
Jiyeong Jung,志愿者
Jiyeong loves to give back, and teaches free yoga for her neighborhood. She helps sell veggies on Saturdays so she can feed her family better and everyone learns where their food comes from!
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杰西卡·赞德尔,前市场助理
In December of 2017, this star of our team passed away unexpectedly. We miss her dearly and all the love and joy and laughter she brought to us for years.
Jessica ate vegan and loved exploring new foods and amazing tastes from our diverse south florida produce! 她总是面带微笑,很开心, no matter what the situation was that she was facing- rain up to her knees, sleepless nights or super long hot days of working.
Jessica ate vegan and loved exploring new foods and amazing tastes from our diverse south florida produce! 她总是面带微笑,很开心, no matter what the situation was that she was facing- rain up to her knees, sleepless nights or super long hot days of working.
董事会
艺术弗里德里希
薇薇安多尔西
克里斯蒂娜Bouza
娜塔莎Payen
丽莎Palley
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Past members of the 董事会:
Melissa Contreras,创始人
Melissa's life has had many twists and turns, and the one constant has always been gardening. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida International University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations, 地理小. The relationships between people, land, and food have been a major interest. 她是《 Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida, along with Ginny Stibolt, published by University Press of Florida in 2013. Contreras Served as a USAID volunteer on an organic farm in the cool, coffee-growing mountains of northern Nicaragua, where she was a consultant for its foray into eco-agritourism while in graduate school working toward a Master's degree in Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development.
She has attended "Community Food Systems from the Ground Up" workshops at Growing Power Inc. Contreras is also an alumnus of The Center for Whole Communities. She studied organic gardening at Miami Dade College with organic farmer Andres Mejides, Miami's most experienced organic farmer (50 years in our tropical climate). Melissa is a former employee of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, where she continues to teach teaches gardening classes in the Adult Education Dept. 她是一个 主的园丁 volunteer, certified through University of Florida/Miami-Dade County Cooperative Extension Service. She takes care of her own beautiful and productive little urban homestead, 有6个蔬菜床, 果树, 还有很多可食用的景观.
斯蒂芬·D. 皮尔逊先生.
罗恩·莫斯曼博士.D.
南希Maidique. M.P.H.
Yvrose瓦尔迪兹
林玉芬博士.D.
安东尼奥Guadamuz
朱莉皮特里
罗杰·多明格斯
科林·戴维斯
戴安娜桑塔纳
布雷特•菲利普斯
这个乡绅
Mirene布鲁克斯
凯伦Picciano
灰色的读
Kaydrianne年轻
粘土诺顿, 收.
茱莉亚Onnie-Hays
洛雷塔Tarpin
珍妮的必要
Racheal彼得曼
乔安妮Hennesey
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