Founding Volunteers

  • Alejandra Ruiz (She/Her)

    When people are connected to Love Wins they leave with food to nourish their bodies and a new community to nourish their soul. 

  • Jesus Daniel Puerto (He/Him)

    To address food injustice, we must first acknowledge the systemic barriers that many of us face. Our identities are intertwined with our access to nourishment. - Dawn Turner:

  • Mark Buhrmester

    (He/Him)

  • Eddie Valentin

    (He/Him)

Operational Team

  • Mauricio Piratova (He/Him)

    Love is an action never simply a feeling - bell hooks

  • Marisol Castellanos (She/Her)

    The idea of freedom is inspiring. But What does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve. - Angela Davis

  • Michael Puerto

    (He/Him)

Volunteers

  • Anastasia Chiu

    They/Them

  • Carly Sorenson (She/her)

    Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
    Hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses. - James Oppenheim

  • Claudia Gonzalez

    She/Her

  • Cyrus Moore (He/Him)

    We try to build a loving, restorative heart in a heartless world, without losing focus on how to get to a different one, not in the next life, but in the coming years.” - Danny Katch

  • Day Sanchez (She/Her)

    Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together.

  • Heather Gallagher

    She/Her

  • Matthew Linn

    He/Him

  • Mark Rusell

    He/Him

  • Peter Gartland (He/Him)

    “I enjoy volunteering with LWFP because the people we service are all hyper local and we’re minimizing food insecurity. The time commitment is just a few days a month and I love all my fellow volunteers.”

  • Ruth Lopez (She/Her)

    “Mi apoyo a la comunidad es el motor que me mantiene viva día a día“

  • Scott Sorenson

    (He/Him)