EFOD TEAM
Meet the leadership, steering committee, and team.
Executive committee
core leadership
Responsible for strong, vocal leadership on behalf of the Collaborative. Sets budget, provides strategic direction, and makes time-sensitive decisions.
- Camryn Smith
Executive Director,
Communities in PartnershipDurham, North Carolina
Camryn s a founding member of Communities In Partnership (CIP), a grassroots organization based in Old East Durham, where she serves as the Executive Director. CIP addresses systemic inequity for communities of color and materially poor people within Durham focusing on social determinants of health, economic development, food sovereignty, gentrification, and housing. For 18+ years, she has led place-based development work, and serves as co-chair for Organizing Against Racism- Durham, is a member of the Racial Equity Taskforce for the City of Durham, was the former Co-Chair of Forward Cities Durham, and is a current RWJF Culture of Health Leader.
- Haleh Zandi
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor,
Planting JusticeOakland, California
Haleh works at the intersection of environmental, economic, and racial justice movements. In 2009, Haleh co-founded Planting Justice where she designed, implemented, and managed an innovative non-profit model nestled within the fields of urban farming, prison abolition, and land rematriation. Throughout her career, Haleh has been organizing in communities hardest hit by toxic air quality, forged by her deep commitment to addressing the intersecting climate, public health, and equity crises. Haleh is dedicated to participatory practices using emergent strategies that build power amongst Black, Indigenous, immigrant & systematically-oppressed communities.
- Lorena Andrade
Director,
La Mujer ObreraEl Paso, Texas
Lorena Andrade is Executive Director of La Mujer Obrera (LMO), a community- and women- led organization in El Paso, Texas. La Mujer Obrera was founded in 1981 as a garment workers organization, and today the organization advocates for community development that is informed by ancestral traditions and by local practice. LMO advances food access work through its restaurant, community farm, daycare center, cultural festivals and Lummetik Trading Company. Lorena is also the Co-Founder of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, the first national women farmworkers’ organization in the U. S.
VOTING MEMBERS
Steering Committee
Collaborative agenda-setting and decision making body. Publicly represents EFOD work, votes on EC members, & chairs working groups.
- Ana Sloan-Stephens
Business Development Director,
Mandela PartnersOakland, California
- Ismail Samad
Co-Founder,
LoiterEast Cleveland, Ohio
- Nicole Anand
Deputy Director,
Inclusive Action for the CityLos Angeles, California
- Rashida Ferdinand
Executive Director,
Sankofa CDCNew Orleans, Louisiana
- Rudy Espinoza
Executive Director,
Inclusive Action for the CityLos Angeles, California
- Wyndi Moore
Community Organizer,
LoiterEast Cleveland, Ohio
ALLIES
Steering Committee
Non-voting ally members of the EFOD Collaborative.
- Anthony Chang
Partner,
Manzanita Capital CollectiveSan Francisco, California
- Dyane Pascall
President,
Conscious Capital InvestmentsLos Angeles, California
- Kristina Stanley
Program Officer, Nourishing Native Foods & Health,
First Nations Development InstituteLongmont, Colorado
- Mariela Cedeño
Partner,
Manzanita Capital CollectiveSan Francisco, California
- Olivia Rebanal
Chief Impact Officer,
EcotrustPortland, Oregon
- Richard Elm-Hill
Senior Program Officer, Nourishing Native Foods & Health,
First Nations Development InstituteLongmont, Colorado
- Veronica Saldana
Senior Business Development Officer,
Self-Help Federal Credit UnionLos Angeles, California
BACKBONE STAFF
SUPPORT
Staff support for collaborative stewardship. Includes supporting Executive Committee, Steering Committee, and working groups, grant and financial administration, documentation, network building and communications.
- Ciara Segura
Movement Researcher,
EFOD Collaborative / DAISA EnterprisesOakland, California
- Germaine Jenkins
Community Weaver,
EFOD Collaborative / DAISA EnterprisesNorth Charleston, South Carolina
- Monica Cadena
Communications & Storytelling Manager,
EFOD Collaborative / DAISA EnterprisesTracy, California
- Trisha Chakrabarti
National Organizer,
EFOD Collaborative / DAISA EnterprisesOakland, California