18 Reasons empowers our community with the creativity and confidence needed to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. We offer free and paid classes, workshops, and dinners that teach people to maximize their food resources. Our free classes, called Cooking Matters, help low-income families learn to stretch their food budgets while preparing healthy, delicious meals. At our storefront space on 18th Street, we offer paid classes in anything from Basic Knife Skills to Japanese Farm Food, as well as the Kitchen Table Talks lecture series, a weekly 18th Hour Cafe, and a monthly $10 Community Dinner. Join us!

I launched Three Squares in 2011 to improve healthy food access for all Bay Area citizens. We offer free six-week-long cooking classes for low-income families. Classes are taught by volunteers, so we spend a lot of time recruiting, training, and working with volunteers. I also write grants, raise funds, hire and supervise staff, conduct program evaluation, and dream up new projects! Get in touch if you want to collaborate.

I invented the wheel. Then I made it better. I launched three major programs that helped increase access to locally-grown produce in low-income communities, while channeling over $200,000 to small, local farmers.

I started a nonprofit from scratch, created programs,hired staff,raised money, managed accounts, and promoted the organization.

I planned and managed high-end luxury biking and walking trips from our office in Beaune, France. I wrangled guides, schedules, hotels,restaurants, taxis, budgets, and country roads. Once I went to Estonia.

Researched and guided private and public luxury biking and walking trips in Europe.

I helped write and manage grants, administer a writing competition, and operate a writers conference.