Maggie Baird is the visionary behind Support and Feed as well as a long time vegan who is passionate about plant-based eating, helping people in need, and working to end the climate crisis. Maggie is an outspoken advocate for the “greening” of the music industry from the impacts of touring and merchandise to photoshoots and video production etc. Maggie offers expertise in the mission’s subject matter and is the spokesperson for Support + Feed with an active and engaged audience ready to get involved in supporting the cause.

Allison Kingsley served as SVP of digital content for Fuse Media where she created series focused on music and youth culture, At ABC, she supervised the development of over 50 shows and the launch of ABC, an initiative to develop/produce digital series that extended ABC storytelling to millennial viewers across all screens and platforms. Allison was the VP of digital development at Comedy Central where she ran CC Studios, developing short-form franchises with a variety of next-gen and established comics. Allison has a deep history of involvement with 501c3’s. She was the Executive Director of the famed Groundling Theater where she managed the business, operations, and school. She also was the ED of Art Share LA, a non-profit that provided art, literacy, and social services to youth and families throughout LA County. There she partnered with LA’s Probation Dept and LA County Board of Supervisors to develop and implement after-school programs. A partnership with LA Housing Dept allowed her to supervise the construction of 30 low-income housing units in downtown Los Angeles.

Janette Fernandez is a plant-based brand and marketing strategist, with degrees in Education and Public Relations. Her experience in Education and Public Relations influenced her work in international Latinx communities where she developed a national reading campaign to increase literacy. She has used her skill set for the past 6 years to bring plant-based events to LA and London. Currently, Janette is developing a Spanish plant-based website that will offer free educational materials to visitors. As a founding member of Support and Feed, Janette has dedicated her time to local and national collaboration between Support + Feed, restaurants, and brands to provide accessible plant-based options to traditionally marginalized communities. Her passion for service is a driving force towards creating equitable practices and solutions to food injustice on a local, national, and global scale.

With over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and health care management, Dr. Ambres has influenced all aspects of the health care industry, including hospitals, payers, medical groups, and boards. Dr. Ambres is Chief Medical Officer for KATE FARMS and recently launched Health and Beyond, LLC to focus on democratizing accessibility to wellness education and coaching.

She has advised Bialla Ventures with a mission to assist the very best healthcare companies in achieving their goals.

Dr. Ambres was most recently a partner in the Health Care Strategy Practice of KPMG and a member of the Global Healthcare Center of Excellence. She has lead the National Provider Healthcare Advisory Practice and was Healthcare lead of the Strategy Group. Formerly, Dr. Ambres served as SVP and Chief Medical Officer for HealthNow, NY, in a return engagement to the parent company of BCBS of WNY and NENY. Within her own company, Ambres Healthcare Consulting, she facilitated merger discussions between two multi-billion dollar health plans in New York; led leadership and organizational assessments resulting in restructuring for health plans and hospitals; and increased physician productivity, significantly impacting organizations bottom lines while concurrently increasing patient satisfaction.

Dinine Signorello – co-led the NYC launch of Support + Feed and is a co-program director. She has a background in both the startup entrepreneurial realm as well deep roots in nonprofit organizations and services. Not only is she an attorney, but an engaged community-minded professional at heart. Ms. Signorello sat on the Board of NOIAW and worked alongside founders Matilda Cuomo, Dr. Aileen Sirey, and the first woman Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro. Through her work at NOIAW, Ms. Signorello was asked to sit on the Equal Pay Coalition of the New York Women’s Agenda, spearheaded by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo. As a mom to both a son and a daughter, Dinine served on the Board at GVLL, one of the largest Little League organizations in the Northeast. Her work with GVLL and also iconic organizations like the Girl Scouts of the USA, as a Troop Leader and Voting Delegate have helped shape her commitment to community and youth. Ms. Signorello’s corporate work includes powerhouse companies like Morgan Stanley and Fidelity National Financial. Her experience in corporate compliance and logistics as well as Giving within the nonprofit sector make her well qualified to sit on the Board at Support + Feed.

Multi-grammy winning producer, artist and life-long vegetarian and then vegan, Finneas is outspoken, with a tremendous public following, about plant-based eating, helping those that are less fortunate, and the climate change emergency. Finneas offers public exposure for Support + Feed as well as a lifetime of knowledge on all subjects important to Support and Feed’s Mission. Finneas has supported in multiple fundraising activations and has volunteered delivering meals.

Grammy Award winner and Songwriting Hall of Fame inductee Jermaine Dupri has been vegan for over fifteen years. Jermaine has appeared in PETA campaigns promoting a vegan lifestyle and has been a leader in providing vegan meals to disadvantaged communities in Georgia. He is Creative Advisor to the plant-based lifestyle platform The Beet.

Julie Chase-Daniel has served as a founding officer, director, or consultant on the local boards of banks such as Wells Fargo and First Security, and of various charitable organizations including Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Bread for the Journey, Axle Projects, and In the Family Way, which helped launch Support and Feed by serving as fiscal sponsor for our Covid-19 Crisis Response. A poet and organizer committed to helping make life on earth better for all beings, she holds an MA from California Institute of Integral Studies, is the mother of one young filmmaker, and lives with her husband in Santa Fe, NM (O’ga P’ogeh Owingeh), the current and ancestral land of the Tewa people.

Justin values and believes in the mission behind Support and Feed and already dedicates his team, resources, connections, and creativity to bring as much value to the organization as possible. Since day one of his involvement in Support and Feed, he’s brought marketing ideas, valuable
relationships, and fundraising
opportunities. He is highly motivated by the mission and particularly on the health benefits S&F provides to people in need.

Michelle Cho is Founder and Principal at Purposeful Seeding & Strategy, a social impact consulting firm specializing in vegan and animal rights campaign development and strategy. For nearly 20 years, Michelle has guided non-profit organizations and cause-driven brands; and counsels talent on philanthropic activity and charitable giving. Michelle volunteers with My Friend’s Place, an organization helping youth experiencing homelessness move toward wellness, stability and self-sufficiency; and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against systemic injustices in the legal system.

She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their rescue dog, Benji.

A seasoned and accomplished nonprofit and philanthropic sector leader and strategist, Nancy Berglass’ career is defined by the award-winning design and management of high impact organizations and initiatives that pair social and cultural impact missions, with the funding, capacity building, partnership, and community engagement resources needed to meet their greatest potential. She is valued for a visionary and inspirational leadership style marked by creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and competence; strategic planning acumen that yields shared equities and measurable outcomes; intellectual curiosity and a zest for shared learning; a compelling and comprehensive command of communications with both internal and external stakeholders; and a deeply held belief in and advocacy for the transformative role of cross sector partnerships, creative practice, and stakeholder engagement in a just society.
While diverse in scope and content, Nancy’s leadership experiences demonstrate what is possible when nonprofit and philanthropic organizations partner strategically with community stakeholders, across any and all fields. As President of the NAMES Project Foundation/AIDS Memorial Quilt at the height of the American AIDS pandemic, Nancy led the organization to become one of the world’s largest health funders, leveraged the growth model internationally and, by securing unprecedented funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, positioned an iconic public health resource to become the nation’s most significant work of public art. As Executive Director of the family foundation of one of the world’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs, Nancy oversaw a pioneering design collaboration between students, educators and the international design firm IDEO to transform the public school lunch experience, while building what would become one of the modern era’s most important philanthropic institutions. As Executive Director of a grassroots touring theater, Nancy grew the budget 300%, built and managed a company of 40, and designed award-winning diversification models for the artistic company and community partners alike. Nancy also brought award-winning design, transformational leadership and unprecedented leverage to the $275 million Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund, a groundbreaking philanthropy that addressed the impact of post-9/11 conflict upon American communities, informed significant policy and systems change, and positioned Nancy as a leading content expert at the crossroads of civilian and military life. Through her consulting practice, Nancy has brought her enthusiasm, creativity and collaborative approach to the design, management and evaluation of social impact programs and initiatives, to over 100 philanthropic, nonprofit, business and public entities addressing issues from public health to veterans’ affairs, from the arts to education, and from immigrant rights to civic engagement. Her understanding of effective social practice is comprehensive; her passion for its role in just society, inspired. Nancy has served in a number of advisory, fellowship and volunteer leadership positions. She was an advisor to the 2008 US Presidential Transition Team, was awarded the US Department of Defense’s Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award, the Council on Foundation’s Award for Critical Impact in Grantmaking, and the UC Distinguished Social Science Alumni Award. She is a Senior Fellow at DC’s Center for a New American Security, where her oft-cited publications are considered highly influential. An awardee of the prestigious Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, Nancy spent several years working with NGOs worldwide to create community-engaged design solutions to local challenges. She has chaired the Board of Social Science Councilors for UC Santa Cruz, is an advisor to Company of Angels Theater, and served as a corporate director of media company We Are The Mighty. Nancy played a leadership role in the 100% Clean Energy Fund of The Solutions Project, LA Arts Loan Fund, the LA Community AIDS Partnership, Grantmakers in the Arts, the national Harm Reduction Coalition, and several other efforts that have forged collaborative success between funders and community stakeholders. She is a highly-engaged, effective, discreet and thoughtful professional whose deep commitment to excellence in cross-sector partnerships bespeaks a genuine belief in the power of social practice to improve the human condition. Nancy graduated with Highest Honors, College Honors, Scholarly Distinction and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence from UC Santa Cruz, and has pursued graduate education at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Southern California Institute for Architecture. A speaker of Spanish and enthusiast of language in general, Nancy is an avid traveler with a thirst for new experiences and lifelong learning.

For over 20 years Nic Adler has been on a mission to make plant-based eating accessible in Los Angeles. He is the founder and creator of Eat Drink Vegan, a 10-year running premier plant-based food and beverage festival, co-founder of Monty’s Good Burger, and founder Nic’s on Beverly. He has been directing the fundraising efforts for The Painted Turtle Foundation & ALD Family Weekend. His passion to make plant-based food mainstream is the main focus of all of his endeavors.

Oliver has been an active member of Support and Feed since its inception, taking all of our meeting notes and volunteering wherever else he is needed. He has an unwavering commitment to the team, a passion for helping others, and is excited to build upon our mission’s goals and expands our abilities to support and feed as we continue to grow. Oliver works for the Darkroom Co as an executive assistant, label coordinator as well as manages several artists.

Rose is the owner and head producer of Two Tree Events, a full service event production company. And is a founding member of Support and Feed. Rose helped create and grow the infrastructure into four cities. She is passionate about helping people in need, particularly those experiencing food apartheid. Rose has worked closely with the Founder from day one to shape Support + Feed and fine tune and focus its mission to reflect the founder’s vision, helping it to become the organization it is today. Rose has a background in the restaurant industry, production, and large-scale complex budgeting as well as a deep understanding of what is needed to work with the businesses vital to our mission.

Sarah is an accomplished, thoughtful executive in the hospitality industry. She is known as a leader, team player and hands on strategist with a diverse and successful track record and a proven ability to create brand value and facilitate growth. She guides marketing and strategy diligence and thoughtful governance in challenging and complex environments. Her presence often insures the visionary difference. She is adept at data-driven growth strategies critical to important organization initiatives and her experience and expertise cover a wide range of areas: traditional and digital marketing, corporate PR, franchise and investor relations, loyalty, brand positioning, product development, consumer research, consumer packaged goods (CPG) licensing and turnaround strategies.

Sarah has made critical contributions as an engaged and active board member, thought leader on numerous professional, public and philanthropic boards both regionally and nationally. Including Shift4 Payments, National Restaurant Association, Veestro, UCLA Annual Restaurant Conference and Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Simon is a campaigning and community education expert who is obsessed with creating ways for global citizens to contribute to ending extreme poverty by 2030. As a Co-Founder of Global Citizen, he has aided the creation and development of the Global
Citizen platform and Festival, and overseen the more than 100 campaign victories that the organization has been a part of.
He holds a Master of Development Studies from the
University of Melbourne, lives in New York with his wife Rachel.