Our Team
We are proud of our collaborative leadership model with strong leadership direction from the Board of Directors. Our most recent strategic plan guides our work and clearly defines organizational structure and roles.
Our strength has always been in our ability to bring people together, so this model mirrors the flexible and nimble structure of our network. It helps to create shared knowledge, diversity, and increased resiliency.
BONNIE KLOHN
Food Policy Lead
Bonnie works to interweave food policy with our food programs to create systemic change. She also facilitates financial planning. Bonnie’s super power is the ability to bring clarity to intensely complex situations.
LINDSAY HARRIS
Food Policy Implementation Lead
Lindsay is excited about growing our local food economy in a just and equitable way. She has a background in participatory research and community economic development, and facilitates collaboration with KFPC’s partners to grow the agriculture sector in our region.
MARIANA GUERRA
Gleaning Abundance Coordinator
Mariana hails from Mexico and has a wealth of experience working with volunteers on various projects in Canada, Mexico, Peru, and China. She is a long-time advocate of social justice and keen to get behind the cause of food security. 2020 is Mariana’s second season with the Gleaning Abundance Program and she has the added task of ensuring our harvests comply with Covid 19 social distancing and sanitation requirements Her organizational and leadership super powers are much appreciated by GAP!
KENT FAWCETT
Food Hub Coordinator
Kent is a highly skilled food entrepreneur and founder of Local Pulse. He has a background in Biochemistry and worked as a Research Technologist at STEMCELL Technologies. Kent is passionate about food and is excited by the opportunity to work with prospective food entrepreneurs to turn their dream products into a “made in Kamloops” reality.
CAITLIN QUIST
Research Student
The Co-vid 19 pandemic brought Caitlin back home to Kamloops earlier than expected from study abroad and she started coming to the Butler Urban Farm regularly to volunteer and make use of her unexpected free time. She has since been awarded a Mitacs Research Training Award to help us learn how to get the most benefit for the most people from what we do at the farm. She calls the farm “labour of love” and enjoys connecting with the many people she meets there.
Board Members
Carole Hebden
Laura Kalina
Honorary Director & Founding Member
Percy Folkard
Duck Hill Ranch
Rob Wright
Gardengate, Open Door Group
Simone Jennings
Interior Health
Jesse Ritcey
Kamloops Naturalist Club
Emily Pletsch
Cynthia Travers
The Loop
Fauve Garson
TRU Masters of Environmental Sciences Researcher
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