Leadership

CHAIR IN 2023

Angela Farley, Executive Director, Teen Kitchen Project (Santa Cruz County)

VICE CHAIR IN 2023

Richard Ayoub, CEO, Project Angel Food (Los Angeles County)

MEMBERS/PARTNERS

Alberto Cortes, CEO, Mama’s Kitchen (San Diego)

Cathryn Couch, CEO, Ceres Community Project (Sonoma & Marin Counties

Jon Escobar, Director of Food Service, Fresno EOC (Fresno County)

Paul Hepfer, CEO, Project Open Hand (Alameda & San Francisco Counties)

Ron Karp, Executive Director, Food For Thought (Sonoma County)

Michele Lew, The Health Trust (Santa Clara County)

COALITION STAFF LEADERS

Michelle Kuppich, RDN, Executive Director, California Food Is Medicine Coalition

Chris Esguerra, MD.
Chris Esguerra Consulting

Jim Glauber MD.
Chief Medical Officer, San Francisco Health Plan

Tanvir Hussain, MD.
Cardiologist, Los Angeles

We-An Lee, MD.
Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County

Rishi Manchanda, MD.
President, HealthBegins

Preston Maring, MD.
retired from Kaiser Permanente

Rita Nguyen, MD.
Assistant Health Officer, Chronic Disease Physician Specialist, Population Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health

Ronit Ridberg, PhD., MS.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, School of Nursing, University of California, Davis

James Scheiberl, MD.
Chief of Medicine, Santa Rosa, Kaiser Permanente

Sheri Weiser, MD., MPH.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine, UC San Francisco