Our Staff

Ivie Baker IV
Community Kitchen Program Manager

Lauren Goldberg
Executive Director

Robin Hernandez
Healthy Eating Program Manager

Janet Rumble
Deputy Director

Sara Servin
Farmers Market Program Manager

Jennifer Underwood
Consultant

Liz Whitehurst
CSA Coordinator

Flor Yanes
Fresh Checks Coordinator
Community Ambassadors

Previous Staff
Many people have helped to grow Crossroads as an organization over the past 14 years, and we are immensely grateful for their hard work and dedication. In addition to those pictured, we’d like to recognize the contributions of Michele Levy, Liz Curtz, Maria Chevez, Karina Mendoza, Tameka Lance, Victoria Hall, Patricia Jurado, Gabriela Lopez, and Allison Milchling, as well as the amazing efforts put in by our AmeriCorps VISTAs Katie Baker, Gabrielle Rovegno, Hally Sablosky, Maggie Switzer, Lisa Matt, and Hailey Edmondson. Thank you all!

Christie Balch

Rosa Sanchez

Ariel Rothman

Morgan Wiggan

Michelle Dudley

Shayia Johnson
Board of Directors
LaVerne Davis, RN
Retired community health professional
Kate Scaife Diaz
Foundation Representative, Inter-American Foundation
Tracey Goldman
Elementary school teacher, coordinator of Crossroads’ Healthy Eating Program at Piney Branch Elementary School
Elizabeth McMeekin
Freelance Interpreter Spanish <> English
Christian Melendez
Urban farmer
Michelle Nelson
Community Garden Program Manager, Montgomery County Parks Department
Michael Rubin
Managing Director, Impact Silver Spring
Tamika Yourse
Patient Coordinator Manager, Takoma Park Integrative Care
Advisory Council
Kate Clancy
Food Systems Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for a Livable Future; Adjunct Professor at Tufts University; and Senior Fellow in the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota
Kate Fitzgerald
Independent consultant to the Fair Food Network and the Farmers Market Coalition
Liz Tuckermanty
Faculty member at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation; Board of Directors, Cheverly Community Market in Cheverly, MD
Founders
Gus Schumacher (1940-2017)
Co-founder of Crossroads Farmers Market; co-founder and VP of Policy of Wholesome Wave; former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at USDA
John C. Hyde (1945-2009)
Co-founder of Crossroads Farmers Market; journalist, author, and co-founder with Louise Swartzwalder of Takoma Kitchens
Michele Tsucalas
Inaugural Crossroads Farmers Market manager; founder and owner of Michele’s Granola
Crossroads is thankful to the following partners and supporters:
Anthem, Inc. | Bethesda Central Farm Market | Blue Not Title | Catalyst Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation | City of Takoma Park | Cloudbreak Foundation | Community Foodworks / FRESHFARM | Finn Family Group | Gleicher Burness Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation | Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation | John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation | Impact1890—A National Lutheran Program | Kaiser Permanente | Louis H. Shaman Charitable Foundation | Lusid Media | Maryland Farmers Market Association | Maryland Physicians Care | Michele’s Granola | Montgomery County | Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation | Nora Roberts Foundation | Nora Roberts Family Foundation | Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Inc. | Prince George’s County Department of Social Services / Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative | Resilience Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation | Saul Centers | Sharing Montgomery Fund | Takoma Foundation | Takoma/Langley Crossroads Development Authority | Takoma Park Gynecology, LLC | The Catalogue for Philanthropy – Greater Washington | The Cliff and Deborah White Family Foundation of the Greater Washington Community Foundation | The Greater Washington Community Foundation | The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. | The Kendeda Fund | The Morningstar Foundation | The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation | The Richard E. and Nancy P. Marriott Foundation | The Winters Group Fund to Promote Diversity & Inclusion at the Rochester Area Community Foundation | USDA Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program | USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program | USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Grant Program | Washington Adventist Hospital/Adventist HealthCare
