The Hollywood Farmers Market has a volunteer board with a 3 year commitment. The board meets the third Wednesday of each month throughout the year. In addition to attending monthly meetings, board members participate in committees focused on marketing, staff, vendor policy, fundraising/program development and finances. You are welcome to attend a meeting to see for yourself how this part of your market functions. Please contact the Board Chair at recruitment@hollywoodfarmersmarket.org for details on how to become more involved.
Interested in joining the Hollywood Farmers Market Board of Directors? Fill out the application here: Board Application.
Market Staff
Alison DeLancey, MScN (Market Director)
Prior to joining HFM as Market Director in October 2020, Alison flexed her market muscle at Montavilla Farmers Market as Development Coordinator and Manager. Alison holds an M.S. in Nutrition and has shared her expertise in food systems as an educator and holistic nutritionist. Her training as a local food leader, advocacy work as a Hunger-Free Leadership Fellow, and lived experience of hunger give Alison a deep understanding of the intersection between economic marginalization, food security, and health outcomes. Alison believes every person should have access to local, seasonal, culturally appropriate food from their neighborhood farmers market!
Ari Rosner (Market Coordinator)
Ari moved to Portland in 2008, and immediately looked for a farmers market near his Northeast neighborhood. He found Hollywood Farmers Market, and began volunteering weekly in the information booth. A couple years later, a staff position opened up and he came on board as the Community Volunteer Coordinator (later Market Coordinator). Over the years, the farmers market community has taken on a central place in his life, and every week he looks forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people. Outside of the market, he works as a contract bookkeeper for non-profits, and enjoys most of the usual Portland hobbies: cycling, hiking, cooking, and gardening.
Ingrid Hayden (Token Program Assistant)
Board Members
David Brown
David relocated to Portland in 2015 from St. Petersburg, FL, to help his farmer-daughter, Lili Tova, out on her Flying Coyote Farm. Since then, he has traded his skills as a news and documentary cameraman for those of an itinerant farm laborer. In his second term on the board, he is particularly interested in helping the market address growing food insecurity issues: how do we help to bring locally and sustainably grown, organic food to underserved and economically insecure consumers and communities? After becoming a Pacific Northwesterner, David has taken up biking, white-water kayaking and complaining about lines at restaurants.
Claudia Fabbrini (Vice Chair)
Alex Gund (Chair)
TomiRene Hettman
Bruce Kubert (Treasurer)
Since moving to NE Portland in 2012, Bruce has been both a customer and a worker (for 5 – and counting – different farms/vendors) at the Hollywood Farmers Market. Over these years, he has built relationships with fellow vendors and customers. He values the community that we create together every Saturday throughout the season. From 1990-2005 he owned and operated a Certified Organic farm, selling their products at the Lane County Farmers market during those years, wholesaling and serving time on the Market board of directors. He has also served on the board of Oregon Tilth. Farmers markets are a vital component of healthy communities, creating the opportunities for meaningful relationships to grow between people, food and food providers.
Risa Lichtman (Secretary)
Risa is a chef and writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is the owner/chef of Lepage Food & Drinks, a small food company featuring Jewish seasonal foods, offering delicious meal delivery, pop-ups, and catering. She is thrilled to be on the Board of the Hollywood Farmers Market after being a dedicated customer for many years. She lives with her wife Jamie, their cat Sylvia, and their new puppy Reuben (like the sandwich). When she’s not in the kitchen or at the market she can be found camping somewhere near water, gardening, hanging out with her chickens, or organizing food-based activist events through Queer Soup Night PDX.
Linda Rasmussen
Linda is a native Portlander. Her work career was with the Communications Workers of America, and now she is a frequent community volunteer. She serves on the board (and is a past President) of the Northeast Community Center, is a reader in the Smart program, and was formerly a CASA volunteer and delivered Meals on Wheels. At the farmers market she is a shopper, but would love to be a volunteer whenever needed.
Bruce Richard
Bruce spent several years working on a wide range of sustainability issues in the Bay Area. Realizing that “Food is the New Black”, he focused his efforts on healthy, accessible food. He joined Abby’s Table to expand its mission to enrich the culinary tapestry of Portland and get connected to the local food industry in a more tangible way. Farmers markets represent a nexus of so much that is good about our local food systems that connects people to their food. As a participant in the food service industry, strong supporter of local agriculture, and the prime food preparer at home, Bruce experienced firsthand the vibrant atmosphere of people coming together at Hollywood Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. He is drawn to both HFM’s great shopping experience for families throughout the east side of Portland, and also its key involvement in promoting healthy food for underserved populations who live right here in our community.
Bruce also spends time as a volunteer leader at Oregon Food Bank’s Learning Garden Program and caring for Portland’s trees as an Urban Forestry tree steward. At home yard in Northeast Portland, he nurtures vegetables, herbs and flowers in its sunny south side yard.
Raeven Richelle
Mary Lou Soscia
Mary Lou has had over forty years of experience with state, federal, and tribal government in watershed management. She has worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for over 30 years leading water quality work efforts in the Columbia River Basin. Mary Lou has been a long time advocate and customer of the Hollywood Farmers Market for 20 years as an ardent supporter of local farms and local food. Mary Lou and her family live in Northeast Portland.
Jeanne Sutter
Jeanne joined the HFM board in the summer of 2020 after having been a regular customer for many years. An experienced organizer and communicator, Jeanne brings her expertise in the administrative dark arts to the board’s operations. Prior to moving to Portland, Jeanne worked in national politics and has applied that training to working in an equally political industry, academia. Jeanne has cultivated her interest in food over the last decade. She worked in bakery production in Pittsburgh, PA, was an extern at the OSU Food Innovation Center where she worked on product development, graduated from Oregon Culinary Institute, and is completing her M.S. in Food Systems & Society. Her capstone research focuses on how the concept of fear perpetuates labor exploitation.
Katie Turley
Brett Warnock
Brett Warnock is a lifelong Oregonian, a longtime bartender and food service worker, and career publisher. He began publishing in the mid-90s when he launched the comic book and graphic novel company Top Shelf Productions. After a good run at Top Shelf he “retired” from comics when he and his partner sold the company in 2015, and has since worked a number of food-related jobs, including deli clerk, waiter and food runner, and most recently as a grocery store beer buyer. His new venture is Kitchen Table, a magazine about food, place and people.
Ramona White
Ramona has been a vendor at HFM for 16 years with Nourishment (the breakfast burrito booth), and has also been a vendor at other farmers markets, including Portland Farmers Market, Hillsdale, Peoples’ Coop and Milwaukie FMs. She has worked as a chef, chef instructor, and small business owner in Portland for 25 years, and is member of local food based organizations including Friends of Family Farmers and Women Chefs & Restaurateurs. Her business seeks to feed the “common human” with comforting foods that use as much locally obtained product as possible. She owns the cafe at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and really digs feeding creative types.
