Jim Hanna (he/him)Jim Hanna, MA, is Executive Director of the Cumberland County Food Security Council. He lives in Portland which has been his base to do food-system focused work since the early 90s. His children attended Portland Public Schools and he has spent much time working with and coaching students. He has been a Social Justice Influencer since (and even before) its inception!
Lilly Kendall (she/her)Lilly Kendall, originally from western Maine, moved to Portland a few years ago after her undergraduate study at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. During her time in college, Lilly studied food systems alongside elementary education and received a bachelor's degree in Human Ecology. Lilly's love for working with children in the outdoor classroom and observing how curiosity is sparked when students engage with the natural world led Lilly to serve as a FoodCorps Service Member with Cultivating Community and Gerald E. Talbot Community School in 2020. Lilly spent her two years as a FoodCorps member helping build capacity and advocacy for implementing garden and outdoor learning based education into the curriculum. In July of 2022, Lilly was hired as a full-time staff member for Cultivating Community, as the Schools Program Coordinator, where she continues this important work with the Portland Public Schools. In this role Lilly is able to bring her love for food systems and outdoors education to life by providing and supporting the implementation of thoughtful and equitable garden based curriculum.
Ailish Dennigan (she/her)Ailish is the Locker Project's Program Coordinator for Portland. She was previously a member of the Portland School Food Services team, working as the Cafeteria Team Lead at East End Community School. Her focus at EECSC — beyond serving breakfast and lunch each day — is to create a consistently welcoming cafeteria environment, which supports students in making healthy choices, connects them to our food system at large and improves food accessibility. Ailish studied public health and art, and brings both of these lenses to her work each day. She previously served with FoodCorps in Connecticut, where she helped pilot a Breakfast in the Classroom program, taught Cooking Matters and food system education classes, and helped manage the schools' gardens. She is excited to be a part of this collaborative approach to improving food accessibility within the Portland community.
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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Amanda Hutchins (she/her)Amanda Hutchins, MS, is the Healthy Eating Active Living Program Coordinator at the City of Portland Public Health Division. Over the years, she has been partnering with Portland Public Schools on several nutrition based initiatives. Amanda is passionate about exposing all children to healthy foods and cultivating healthy habits that last through adulthood. She is truly excited about the innovative approach Food Fuels Learning is taking to tackle food security in the community.
Zoe Grodsky (she/her)Zoe is the School Food Systems Coordinator at Cumberland County Food Security Council. Before joining the council in 2021 as the Food Fuels Learning Coordinator, Zoe worked as a Farm School Educator and a Researcher studying the U.S. Environmental Movement. Zoe graduated from Middlebury College where she focused her studies on social movements, environmental justice, and the education system. Outside of work, Zoe enjoys exploring the many beaches and forests of Maine and cooking good food with friends!
Billie Watson (she/her)Billie is originally from Fairfield, CT and is currently the Youth Programs Coordinator at Cultivating Community. She has taught in pre-school and middle school settings, worked as a facilitator for Maine Youth Action Network, and took on various jobs at Seeds of Peace, culminating with a role in program direction and garden management. She grew up constantly watching the Food Network and thinking about the dynamics between people. This is why, today, she enjoys her work very much. She has the privilege of facilitating groups as they cook, garden, and develop leadership skills.
Aimee Styklunas (she/her)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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Our Graphic Designer
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Winslow RobinsonWinslow Robinson, PhD, is a behavioral designer / researcher, specializing in the science of habit formation to realize design for social good / lifestyle as medicine. In addition, he sits on the board of directors for the Cumberland County Food Security Council, and is involved in state-level advocacy through the Southern Maine chapter of the National Young Farmers Coalition. With his partner, Winslow founded Riverside Farm using organic low/no-till practices with heavy emphasis on hand tools, also leveraging design thinking to improve beekeeping performance on their small apiary.
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