Jim Hanna (he/him)

Executive Director
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Jim is Executive Director at CCFSC. He has been a leader in Maine’s food system for almost 30 years. Among his achievements are founding the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project and co-authoring “Whole Measures for Community Food Systems”. He has been a member of Willow Pond Farm’s CSA program since 1991. He shares those veggies, as well as the ones he grows in his Portland garden, with his friends and family which includes six grand children.

Zoe Grodsky (she/her)

School Food Systems Manager
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​Zoe is the School Food Systems Manager at CCFSC. Before joining the council in 2021 as the Food Fuels Learning Coordinator, Zoe worked as a Farm School Educator and a Researcher studying the U.S. Environmental Movement. Zoe graduated from Middlebury College where she focused her studies on social movements, environmental justice, and the education system. Outside of work, Zoe enjoys exploring the many beaches and forests of Maine and cooking good food with friends! ​

Samantha Dolan (she/her)

Aimee Styklunas (she/her)

Gleaning Initiative Co-Coordinators
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Sam is one of the co-coordinators of the Cumberland County Gleaning Initiative, along with Aimee Styklunas. Previously, she was the Foodcorps member at CCFSC for the Portland school district for two years.  She has spent years working at small-scale organic veggie farms in Southern Maine. Before Sam moved to Maine, she was working at a junior boarding school in Upstate New York where she maintained the barns and gardens, and also taught Edible Schoolyard to 4th and 5th graders.  She enjoys swimming at Kettle Cove, drinking tulsi tea, hiking short mountains, and watching The Great British Baking Show with her roommates.  ​

Aimee is one of the co-coordinators of the Cumberland County Gleaning Initiative, along with Sam Dolan. Previously, she was the Foodcorps member at CCFSC for the South Portland school district for two years. Originally from Boston, she studied Public Health at UMass Amherst, has worked in healthcare and addiction recovery, and lived at a community farm out in Oregon. She moved to Maine to do more of her favorite things, including hiking, dancing to live music, making food with friends, and swimming in as many bodies of water as possible.