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Our Board

President
Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
President, Heritage Consulting Group
Click Here to Read a Copy of Doug Johnson's 2007 Annual Meeting Speech

President Elect
Fr. Frank Sevola, OFM
Guardian & Executive Director,
St. Francis Chapel & City Ministry Center

Vice President
Ray Welsh
District Manager, Stop & Shop Companies

Treasurer
Patricia M. Cerilli, CPA
Partner, Mullen Scorpio Cerilli

Secretary
Mary Flynn, Ph.D., RD, LDN
The Miriam Hospital

Nancy Verde Barr
Author & Chef

Reverend Jean Barry
Executive Director, WARM Shelter

Lorraine Burns
Director, St. Teresa of Avila Food Pantry

Melissa A. Dick, CFRE
Director of Marketing & Special Events,
Boys & Girls Club of Providence

Gerry Fernandez
President & Founder
Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance

Reverend Gerald Finnegan, S.J.
Bryan's Food Pantry

Pastor Juan Francisco
Door of Refuge Church

Amanda Frye Leinhos
Executive Director
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center

Michael A. Gamboli
Partner, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Nathalie Gooding
Certified Public Accountant

Jewel Gregson
Marketing Team Leader, Whole Foods Market

Bob McDonough
Administrator for Family & Adult Services,
RI Department of Human Services

John Muggeridge
General Manager,
Fidelity Investments, Rhode Island 

Rob Powers
Executive Vice President,
Human Resources, Textron Financial

Susan Santos
Assistant Executive Director
Girl Scouts of Rhode Island

Lisa Stanton
Executive Vice President,
Monitise Americas

Richard Tremblay
Manager, Community & Ethnic Marketing,
Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.

Dale J. Venturini
President and CEO
Rhode Island Hospitality and Tourism Association

William R. Walter
President and CEO
Capital City Community Centers

Honorary Board Members

Sue Carcieri
First Lady, State of Rhode Island

Wayne Charness
Sr. VP Corporate Communications, Hasbro

Frank D. DePetrillo
Retired Community Liaison,
RI Department of Human Services

Kevin Farrell
Senior Vice President, Middle Market Lending
Sovereign Bank

Alan Shawn Feinstein
Philanthropist, The Feinstein Foundation

Charles S. Fradin
President, Charles Fradin Incorporated

Kathleen Gorman, Ph.D.
Director, University of Rhode Island
Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America

Donna Lee
Retired Food Editor, The Providence Journal

Dorothy Licht
Former First Lady, State of Rhode Island

Pauline Perkins Moye
Director of Social Services
Florence Gray Center

John Murphy
Partner, KPMG, LLP

Maureen Sullivan
Chefs' & Vintners' Chairperson

Honorable William Smith
Federal District Judge

Mary Sue Tavares
Director, John Fogarty Group Homes

Dr. John A. Yena
Chairman of the Board,
Johnson & Wales University