Brenda Avalos
Cardholder Success Associate, Fresh Connect
Growing up, Brenda learned about health disparities early on and truly believes everyone should have access to healthy foods so they can be healthy and happy. A Fresh Connect Cardholder Success Associate, she connects with our cardholders to educate them about Fresh Connect and how the program can benefit them. In her free time, she enjoys going to the gym or spending time with friends!
Nora Doherty
Senior Cardholder Success Associate, Fresh Connect
Nora strongly believes that access to food is a basic human right, and medicine, and if we help each other more as a community, we will have a happier, healthier, and more equitable world. Nora helps get Fresh Connect Cardholders set up with their cards and supports them to make sure they have the right tools and knowledge to utilize the program. Nora loves cooking, talking about, reading about, looking at and eating food.
Machayla Fortin
Director of Cardholder Experience, Fresh Connect
Machayla believes that access to nutritious food of your choice is a basic human right. At About Fresh, she ensures that all Fresh Connect cardholders are set up for success in the program by ensuring that folks receive their Fresh Connect card and know-how and where to use it. In her free time, you can find her at the local barre/yoga studio or taking a walk with her husband and their dog.
Casey Hogan
Service Design Manager, Fresh Connect
Casey has been working in food for over a decade through work with food tech startups, farmers markets, public markets, and food access nonprofits. She is passionate about supporting food growers and makers doing right by their customers, workers, and the planet and about increasing purchasing power for nutritious food. As Service Design Manager, she works with potential partners to learn more about Fresh Connect and help them design their programs to best fit those they serve. Casey lives nomadically with her dog, Oaty, and spends all of her free time traveling, which always includes trying new foods in the places she visits.
Jamie Pasley
Controller, About Fresh
Jamie is a firm believer in the transformative power of good food. She views food as a medium to express love, nurture well-being, and uphold a fundamental human right. At About Fresh, she manages the organization's bookkeeping operations, ensuring the efficient flow of resources to further our mission of fostering healthier and more equitable communities. After work, Jamie is an audiobook enthusiast who is perpetually sipping iced coffee (even during the winter months), and enjoying quality time with her children.
Adam Shyevitch
Chief Program Officer, About Fresh
Adam thinks delicious, nutritious food is a celebration of life and a gateway to health, opportunity, and equity. Developing game-changing programs and initiatives is his jam. He loves seeing how all the pieces come together in brighter lives for all. When he's not working with the About Fresh team, you'll find him with his family or biking on roads near and far.
Josh Trautwein
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer, About Fresh
Josh is devoted to the science of social innovation. He cooks up About Fresh’s social impact strategy and leads development to support our organizational growth. When he’s not selling fruit from a bus, he’s playing soccer in the Fens.
Erin Wnorowski
Senior Director, Program Strategy & Growth, Fresh Connect
Growing up with a single mother who lived with multiple chronic conditions, Erin understood, early on, the relationship between food and health, choice and dignity, which led her into a career in community health, healthcare improvement, and food justice. In her role as Director of Service Design, Erin builds partnerships and programs to expand the accessibility and affordability of fresh foods. Outside of About Fresh, you can find Erin on a hike, at karaoke night, or exploring the city with her children.