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Alejandro Velez
Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora during their last semester at UC Berkeley in 2009. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages and fresh, local food, they experimented in Alex's fraternity kitchen, ultimately growing one test bucket of mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. In 2011, they're on pace to help families grow over 250,000 lbs of fresh food at home, while diverting and reusing 1,000,000 lbs of coffee grounds from Peet's Coffee & Tea.
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Danny Kennedy
Kennedy serves as managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund a non profit dedicated to optimising the clean energy transition. He co founded Sungevity a rapidly growing residential solar power company3 and Powerhouse the primer solar incubator in Oakland. While at Sungevity Kennedy won a Planet Forward Innovator of the Year award4 from the PBS program Planet Forward.
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Jessamyn Rodriguez
Jessamyn W. Rodriguez is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the award-winning Hot Bread Kitchen. Since its inception in 2007, she has led the growth of the organization from a visionary idea to a thriving bakery and workforce development program. Hot Bread Kitchen won the 2009 “Best Small Business” for Queens from the NYC Department of Small Businesses and has become nationally recognized brand that has been covered in print (New York Times, Daily News, and Food & Wine Magazine), TV (Today Show & NPK), and Radio.
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Nikhil Arora
Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora during their last semester at UC Berkeley in 2009. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages and fresh, local food, they experimented in Alex's fraternity kitchen, ultimately growing one test bucket of mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. In 2011, they're on pace to help families grow over 250,000 lbs of fresh food at home, while diverting and reusing 1,000,000 lbs of coffee grounds from Peet's Coffee & Tea.
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Before becoming a board member, Phaedra served as Chief Executive Officer of Green For All. Under her leadership, Green For All became one of the country’s leading advocates for a clean-energy economy, and one of its most important voices on the intersection of economics and environment. Phaedra led Green For All to several groundbreaking policy victories and innovative pilot projects at the federal, state, and local levels, while redefining the face of environmentalism through youth engagement and partnerships with popular artists.
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Tevis Howard
KOMAZA was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard, who currently serves as Executive Director. Recognizing the unique social and environmental challenges faced by those living in semi-arid, drought prone regions, Tevis decided to focus on the hardest-to-serve families living in remote regions of Coastal Kenya, where rainfall is extremely low, soil is exceedingly infertile and few other organizations are on-the-ground.
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