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! ​

Connor Wertz (he/him)

Local Food Access Program Manager
connor@ccfoodsecurity.org

Connor is the Local Food Access Program Manager. He moved to Maine from Vermont, where he organized teams of volunteers for clean energy advocacy, worked on an organic veggie farm, and never learned to cross country ski. Connor is excited to join a community that cares for the land, the people on it, and translates that care into action. He is looking forward to running, biking, and picnicking his way up and down Maine’s coast. Outside of work you can find Connor gardening, fermenting, plotting with a cat on his lap, and practicing massage therapy, which he was just recently certified in. ​

Nicolette Bernardi (they/them)

Agricultural Partnership and Outreach Coordinator​[email protected]

​Nicolette (they/them) is our Agricultural Partnerships and Outreach Coordinator. As the Coordinator, Nicolette will develop partnerships and training for small scale meat value chains through the Maine Meat Initiative. Before joining CCFSC, Nicolette had started their work in the food system as a Dairy Production Manager in Rhode Island. Then transitioned to sustainable food business advocacy and building awareness of local food for consumers in Massachusetts. Most recently they've worked in waste audits and diverting organics from the landfill by composting. Nicolette embraces a healthy work life balance by traveling as much as PTO allows, building class solidarity and connecting with nature through hiking, camping, and biking. 

Samantha Dolan (she/her)

FoodCorps Member for Portland School District
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Sam is the Foodcorps member at CCFSC for the Portland school district.  She has spent the last two summers 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 Styklunas (she/her)

FoodCorps Member for South Portland School District
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Aimee is the Foodcorps member at CCFSC for the South Portland school district. Originally from Boston, she studied Public Health at UMass Amherst, has worked in addiction recovery and houseless healthcare and lived at a community farm out in Oregon. She believes secure relationships to food are foundational to our development and that students can build those relationships for themselves if given the proper resources. She recently moved to Maine to do more of her favorite things, including hiking, dancing to live music, making and eating food with friends, and swimming in as many bodies of water as possible.

Hannah Moore (she/her)

FoodCorps Member for Westbrook School District
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Hannah is the FoodCorps member at CCFSC for the Westbrook School District. Originally from Windham, she spent the last 15 years in Ohio, but was determined to return home to Cumberland County. In May 2024, she graduated from Ohio University with her B.S. in Translational Health- Applied Nutrition with a focus on dietetics. She has worked in the childhood nutrition education space and feels passionately about the importance of exposure to new foods at a young age. Hannah enjoys junk journaling, running outside, grocery shopping at unique stores, solo-traveling, eating seasonally, and spending time with her friends and family in the area. 

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Victoria Forkus (she/her)

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Data Innovation Project Research Fellow
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​Victoria currently works as a Portfolio Manager for the Northeast Office of Regional Operations (ORO) for AmeriCorps. Before joining AmeriCorps, she served as a project director at UNH’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP). Prior to that, she was employed as a Town Manager in rural Maine where she successfully navigated an ever-evolving role as the administrator for a small community. She worked collaboratively to address inadequate emergency medical coverage, revitalize municipal programs, and strengthen community partnerships.

Immediately following her undergraduate work, Victoria served as both an AmeriCorps ASN member and a VISTA volunteer. While in service, she acted as a mentor for at-risk youth in an urban primary school and as an early college initiatives coordinator at a rural university. As a college student, she worked as a counselor at Camp Susan Curtis, a summer camp dedicated to providing a tuition-free camp experience to economically disadvantaged Maine youth. Victoria holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Washington & Jefferson College and an MPP from the University College of Dublin in Ireland. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of Southern Maine.

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