Your Kids’ Food Basket Team
Working together to nourish children to reach their full potential.
Leadership
Staff
Board and Advisory Members
Inspired by our mission, every board and committee member is dedicated to making an impact in West Michigan.
Board of Directors
President and Treasurer
Mary Command
Retired, Williams Group
Vice President
Jessie Jones
Corewell Health
Secretary
Mario Cascante
Luna Restaurant Group
Founder
Mary K. Hoodhood
Menaka Abel
Request Foods
Charen Buyce
StitchFix
Matthew Cortez
Superintendent of Muskegon Public Schools
Timothy Dudley
Rhoades McKee
Erin Dziengel
Meijer
Max Gibbs
Retired
Ronald Grifka, M.D.
University of Michigan Health-West
Bob Kaser
Grand Rapids Griffins
Phalesha Kyes
By Phalesha Events, LLC
Joe Verbrugge
Stride
Imran Zaman
Amway
Muskegon Advisory Board
Advisory Board Chairs
Curtis Beene
Mistelle Serio
Committee Members
Ara Curtis
LaKisha Harris
Jillian Meloche
Cindy Sheehan
Charlene Smith
Tim Taylor
Andy Usik
Michele Vanderlinde
Amanda Westbrook
Ottawa + Allegan Advisory Board
Advisory Board Officers
Barret Bloenk, Chair
Rosemary Ervine, Co-Chair
Committee Members
Nora Balgoyen
Tracy Brower
Colleen Childers
Becky Pollack
Scott Potter
Martha Reidsma
Carolyn Stich
Tracy Umbenhour