Cast & Crew - Seed & Sprout: Growing the Food Rescue Revolution

Hana Dansky, Executive Director, Boulder Food Rescue
Doug Rauch, Founder/President of Daily Table, Dorchester, MA
Marian Kelly, Director of Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) Potato and Produce Project, Big Island, Virginia
Turner Wyatt, Executive Director of Denver Food Rescue
Laurie "Duck" Caldwell, Executive Director for Boston Area Gleaners
Caleb Phillips, Boulder Food Rescue, Food Rescue Alliance, FallingFruit
Sasha Purpura, Executive Director, Food For Free, Cambridge, MA
Mike Hickcox, Communication Director for the Society of St. Andrew, Big Island, VA
Theresa Snow, Executive Director, Salvation Farms Vermont
Kayla Birdson, Director of Operations, GrowHaus, Denver, CO
Kyle Huelsman, Former Director, Food Rescue Alliance, Denver
Denver Food Rescue
Boulder Food Rescue
GrowHaus, Denver, Colorado
Food For Free, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Salvation Farms, Vermont
Society of St. Andrew/EndHunger.org
Daily Table, Dorchester, MA
Boston Area Gleaners, Boston, MA
Food Rescue Alliance, Rocky Mountain Area and Beyond!

Featuring

HANA DANSKY is a co-founder and the current Executive Director of Boulder Food Rescue, a non-profit organization that works to redistribute healthy produce to low-income people in Boulder, by bicycle. They do this work through a participatory approach by developing relationships with residents at low income housing sites and working on the back end to make sure their voices are integrate within their programs. Hana is also a part of the Boulder County Healthy Eating Active Living Team, a cofounder of Boulder Food Not Bombs, and cofounder and organizer Food Rescue Alliance, a program that works to support food recovery organizations with their inception and share next and best practices for growth and innovation. http://www.boulderfoodrescue.org/

DOUG RAUCH is the Founder/President of DAILY TABLE, an innovative retail store designed to bring affordable nutrition to the food insecure in our cities by recovering the excess, wholesome food from grocers, food service, growers and manufacturers to provide both ready-to-eat meals and basic groceries at prices that everyone can afford in a dignified manner. Doug spent 31 years with Trader Joe's Company, the last 14 years as a President, helping grow that business from a small chain in Southern California, to a nationally acclaimed retail success story. He developed their prized buying philosophy, created their unique private label food program, wrote and executed the Business Plan for expanding Trader Joe's nationally, and championed their unique Customer Experience approach. He graduated from Trader Joe's in June 2008. Doug is co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc.; a Trustee at Olin College of Engineering; on the Board of Overseers at WBUR; and serves on the board of several for-profit and non-profit companies. Doug received his Executive M.B.A. from the Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont University. He also was a recent Senior Fellow at Harvard University in their Advanced Leadership Initiative where he hatched the idea of DAILY TABLE in Dorchester (Boston), MA.http://dailytable.org/store-location/dorchester/

MARIAN KELLY is the Director of Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) Potato and Produce Project. She acquires millions of pounds of fresh produce each year from farmers and packing houses and arranges delivery of food to food banks and volunteer feeding groups across the country. She has been with SoSA since its founding in 1979, in Big Island, Virginia.http://endhunger.org/

TURNER WYATT is the Executive Director of Denver Food Rescue, a non-profit focused on improving health equity outcomes by increasing access to healthy food using an innovative, bicycle based food distribution model. He serves on the City of Denver's Sustainable Food Policy Council and is co-director of the collaborative project Fresh Food Connect.http://denverfoodrescue.org/

LAURIE "DUCK" CALDWELL Is the Executive Director for Boston Area Gleaners. She began working as the first employee of the organization in January 2010. Under her leadership, BAG has seen an 800% budget increase and exponential growth in capacity from 37,545 pounds gleaned in 2010 to 364, 282 pounds gleaned in 2015. Over the same period, the Boston Area Gleaners have moved from serving a handful of local pantries to working with major distribution partners such as the Greater Boston Food Bank and Food For Free.  Her work experience in the non-profit sector began in 1995 and includes programs and project management, program and curriculum development, and consulting. She is a carpenter by trade, has been a business owner, and has worked with farmers in VT and NH as a produce buyer for natural foods cooperatives across the Northeast. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and a certificate in small business development from Trinity College of Vermont, and an MBA in Organizational Management and Sustainability from Antioch University New England.www.bostonareagleaners.org/

CALEB PHILLIPS is a featherless bipedal humanoid passionate about food justice and finding creative ways to use technology to address social issues. When he's not biking around gawking at trees, he balances his efforts between his day job as a data scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, and as a worker bee for a number of non-profit organizations such as Food Rescue Alliance in Denver and Boulder Food Rescue, Boulder, CO. "Besides all the work stuff, he likes to climb rocks, run trails, ride bikes, and generally be outdoors as much as possible." http://fallingfruit.org

SASHA PURPURA After 15 years, Sasha left the corporate world to work on her organic farm while receiving an MBA in Organizational Sustainability. She joined Food For Free as Executive Director in 2012 to help expand their impact, ensuring more people have access to healthy food and less food enters our waste stream.http://www.foodforfree.org/

MIKE HICKCOX is the Communication Director for the Society of St. Andrew, headquartered in Big Island, Virginia. He coordinates electronic and print communication to support the organization's efforts to feed the hungry across the country.

Education: B.A., Northeastern Univ. | M.Div., Iliff School of Theology | M.A. University of Denver
Radio Anchor and/or News Director: WTIC, Hartford CT | WBIS, Bristol CT | WHEB, Portsmouth NH | WZNN, Rochester NH  (also hosted talk shows while in Bristol CT and in Portsmouth NH)
Teaching: Communication Department, University of New Hampshire
Church Pastor: United Methodist in CT and NH, United Church of Christ in NH
Communication Director: New England Conference of The United Methodist Church, Lawrence MA | Society of St. Andrew, Big Island VA
Director of Audio Initiatives: United Methodist Communications, Nashville TN
Clergy Status: United Church of Christ (1990-present) | United Methodist (1976-1990)
Audio Online Projects: SoundTheology.org, Church of the Saviour, Church of the Covenant

"I'm eclecic, but only near the intersection of communications and church."Details can be found at http://EndHunger.org

THERESA SNOW has worked in Vermont's agricultural/horticultural sector for 15 years. She founded Salvation Farms in 2004, receiving both regional and national awards. Her Sterling College degree is in Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. Theresa has worked with well-known Vermont agricultural businesses like Pete's Greens, High Mowing Organic Seeds and has served as Director of Agricultural Resources for the Vermont Food Bank. Salvation Farms is a federally recognized, not-for-profit organization driven by a mission to build increased resilience in Vermont's food system through agricultural surplus managment. http://www.salvationfarms.org/

KAYLA BIRDSONG became involved with the GrowHaus in 2013 while living in the Elyria neighborhood of Denver, CO. She was the GrowHaus Director of Food Distribution for two years during which she managed the food box program, daily market, and Cosechando Salud free grocery program, as well as running the internship program. Since mid-2015, she has been the Director of Operations, helping the GrowHaus thrive on a day to day basis. Kayla currently oversees food distribution, food production, GrowHaus facility, the internship program, HR, assists with executive projects, and more. Kayla is passionate about working with the community to shape our local food system. She grew up in FLORIDA and studied Business Management and Spanish at the University of Florida. She has studied abroad in Spain, traveled extensively through Asia and Europe, and volunteered on organic farms in Nepal. She speaks Spanish, and also holds a Permaculture Design Certificate.http://www.thegrowhaus.org/

KYLE HUELSMAN is the (former) Director of the Food Rescue Alliance based in Denver, Colorado.  The Food Rescue Alliance is a project of Boulder Food Rescue aimed at facilitating grassroots food recovery and movement-building around ending food waste and engaging in food justice both in the Rocky Mountain region,and around the country.http://foodtank.com/organization/food-rescue-alliance

Written, Directed and Produced by MARYANNE GALVIN

Edited by H. ADAM LENZ & MARYANNE GALVIN

Camera by MARYANNE GALVIN, H. ADAM LENZ,

DONNA DEALMEIDA, DAVE MELPIGNANO, CATHY DONAHUE

Audio Mix by JASON JORDAN

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE THOUSANDS OF CONTRIBUTORS ON FARMS, IN THE FIELDS, GROCERY STORES, PACKING HOUSES & FOOD RELIEF AGENCIES RESCUING AND REDISTRIBUTING HEALTHY FOOD AROUND THE GLOBE.

THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE AND THEIR 2016 LAW FORBIDDING GROCERY STORES FROM DISCARDING AND DESTROYING SOON-TO-EXPIRE FOOD PRODUCTS, WHICH MUST BE DONATED OR COMPOSTED

With Gratitude for their thoughtful contributions to this film:

Kara & Rob Andrew, Liz & Bob Chabot, Gregg Stevens, Cathy Donahue, Nancy & Peter Edmondson, Jane & John Putnam, Joanna Lu & David Higgins, Dave & Deb GalvinCarol Galvin, Matt Crawford, Adrian Hernandez, Bonnie Lisser, Cyndi Lenz, Renee McKinney, Dave Purpura, Jack Zanini, Lise Zumwalt, Harvard University