Parsley's Kitchen - Community Teaching Kitchen
Built and managed a commercial teaching kitchen serving over 5,000 residents annually through hands-on cooking classes and partnerships with urban farms.
Featured In:
Richmond Magazine: Bon Secours Community Kitchen
Baskervill Architecture: Wellness Center Design
Shalom Farms Produce Rx Program
Richmond Magazine: Cultivating Farmers
Federal Grant Management
Managed $8 million in federal grants, maintaining 100% compliance while bringing programs to underserved communities.
Program Details:
Managed NSF-funded computer science education grants through CodeVA, bringing programming education to underserved Virginia schools.
Community Benefit Grant Review
Evaluated community health proposals across $158.9 million in investments, learning what makes proposals successful.
Related Coverage:
Bon Secours SEED Grant Recipients
Community Benefit Investment Overview
Richmond Magazine: Cultivating Farmers
National Health & Wellness Policy Convening
Planned and executed annual multi-day Health and Wellness Council meetings in Arlington, VA for the Food Marketing Institute. Coordinated approximately 60 national member companies for collaborative advocacy, federal education, and nutrition security strategy at FMI offices and on Capitol Hill.
Experiential Learning Program Design & Execution
Designed and executed a 3-day immersive professional development program for CodeVA, bringing approximately 40 social studies teachers from four rural Southwest Virginia school districts to Richmond, VA. Teachers engaged in place-based experiential learning connecting computer science integration with the teaching of difficult history.
Scope of Work:
Annual event management and logistics across multiple venues including Capitol Hill
Stakeholder coordination across 60+ national food industry member companies
Federal advocacy facilitation on nutrition security, SNAP policy, and Food is Medicine priorities
Multi-year program continuity and relationship management
Why This Matters:
This engagement is Prevention Through Exposure in practice: the same methodology that drives every Rooted & Thriving health equity engagement. Sustained behavior and practice change does not happen in a single session. It happens through immersive, repeated, community-grounded experience. Whether the context is teacher development or community health transformation, the principle is the same.