Staff & Board

Francesca Vietor, Executive Director
David Prior, Communications Manager
Rebecca Womack, Operations Manager

The Edible Schoolyard Staff

Esther Cook, Chef Teacher
Marsha Guerrero, Director
Sasha Harris-Lovett, Garden Education Fellow
Wendy Johnson, Garden Consultant
Joyce Lin-Conrad, Assistant Chef Teacher
Jonah Mossberg, Assistant Garden Teacher
Geoff Palla, Garden Manager and Teacher
Shaina Robbins, Program Coordinator

 

Board of Directors

Alice Waters is founder of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California, and President of the Chez Panisse Foundation.

Susan Andrews serves on the Board of Directors of several Northern California private elementary schools, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Eva Leah Gunther Foundation.

Mark Buell, a renowned political activist, serves on the Boards of Directors of San Francisco Conservation Corps and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Mark is Board Chairman of the Chez Panisse Foundation.

Katrina Heron is a writer, editor, and independent book-packager. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, and a senior editor at the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine.

Sherry Hirota is Chief Executive Officer of Asian Health Services (AHS), in Oakland, CA. She was a member of the California Endowment’s Board of Directors for ten years, and is an appointed member of the Advisory Committee on Research on Minority Health.

Christina Kim is the founder and owner of dosa, a fashion house in Los Angeles, California, where artisanal textiles are recycled into sophisticated, contemporary clothing and housewares

Martin Krasney is a Trustee of Marin Country Day School, a Trustee of the Urban School in San Francisco, and the Treasurer of the Compton Foundation. 

John Lyons is the President of Production at Focus Features, and an advocate for Edible Schoolyard programs in New York City.

Sally Wilcox is a literary agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, President of the Board of 826LA, and serves on the National Advisory Board of 826National.

Advisory Board

  • Michael Ableman
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Wendell Berry
  • Kelly Brownell
  • Peter Buckley
  • Susie Tompkins Buell
  • Nancy Rutter Clark
  • Billy Collins
  • Eleanor Coppola
  • Troy Duster
  • Delaine Eastin
  • Stanlee Gatti
  • Angelo Garro
  • Adam Gopnik
  • Carole Shorenstein Hays
  • Wes Jackson
  • Bob Kerrey
  • Jonathan Kozol
  • Frances Moore Lappé
  • Phillip Lopate
  • David Mas Masumoto
  • Frances McDormand
  • Nan McEvoy
  • Bette Midler
  • Margrit Mondavi
  • Davia Nelson
  • Marion Nestle
  • Nell Newman
  • Jamie Oliver
  • Michael Pollan
  • Robert Redford
  • Ruth Reichl
  • Boz Scaggs
  • Orville Schell
  • Eric Schlosser
  • Gus Schumacher
  • Peter Sellars
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Meryl Streep
  • Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Alice Walker
  • Jacqui West