Jim Hanna (he/him)Executive Director
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Zoe Grodsky (she/her)School Food Systems Manager
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Adele Wise (she/her)Local Food Access Program Manager
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Marly Davies (she/her)Local Food Access Assistant
[email protected] Marly is the Local Food Access Assistant at CCFSC. She moved to Maine to work on organic vegetable farms in 2021 after receiving her B.A. in Sociology & Environmental Studies from St. Lawrence University. While she continues to keep one foot in farming, she also does contract work for a local permaculture-based landscape design company. Marly enjoys long bike rides, connecting with her community, and playing in the ocean.
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Samantha Dolan (she/her)FoodCorps Member for Portland School District
[email protected] Sam is the 2024-25 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.
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Aimee Styklunas (she/her)FoodCorps Member for South Portland School District
[email protected] Aimee is the 2024-25 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.
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Hannah Moore (she/her)Hannah is the 2024-25 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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