If you’ve volunteered with the COVID-19 Grocery Delivery program, you’ve worked with Ali Eddy, our incredibly dedicated Program Manager. Prior to the pandemic, Ali managed the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program, School Markets, and Home Delivery. (How did she do all of that? We’re still not sure.)

You see where this is going, don’t you?

Ali will be leaving Food For Free at the end of May, to prepare to attend the Graduate Institute of Geneva for a Masters in International Affairs: Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability. She hopes to make it to Switzerland once they open their borders—hopefully before her semester starts! She will be focusing on the relationship between sustainable farming and local and global food systems.

Ali has never failed to bring hard work, diligence, positivity, and a refreshing authenticity to our programming. She has completely rocked the enormous COVID-19 Grocery Delivery program, and Steph Tyler-Smith, our new Program Director says she would have NEVER survived without Ali’s support.

But—great news—we have already hired for Ali’s role. Emma Stellman will be starting as our new Program Manager towards the end of May! She brings decades of nonprofit management, operations, and school experience to the position, which will help us grow our school programming in a new season of the unknown.

Meanwhile, the Operations Team has welcomed Tim Cavaretta aboard as a Food Rescue Coordinator. Tim is a Cambridge resident with a background including both hunger-relief work and professional delivery driving. Ryan says “Tim’s great to work with–he clearly cares about the type of work we do and has the knowledge and skills to do it well!”

We’re sorry to see Food Rescue Coordinator Jill Lund leave at the end of May. Jill has been a key part of the operations team since 2018 and we will miss her greatly. Her professional driving and dedication to our mission made her a star on an outstanding team. Whether it was managing volunteers while they pack home delivery boxes, unloading a truck full of rescued food at a food pantry, or delivering a box of food to home-bound clients, she has approached her work with good humor and respect for the people we serve. Jill will be returning to Western Massachusetts to begin a new set of adventures and we wish her all the best.

Current job listings at Food For Free are available here.