Bri

Brianna is a developer, poet, data scientist, modern dancer, and an advocate for connecting people to resources. Her previous role was as Senior Advisor and Lead Technologist at the General Services Administration leading Artificial Intelligence, application, and web development teams. Outside of work, she is a Co-Director for Delicious Democracy, DC's Creative Advocacy Lab and Women Who Code DC. Her mission is to develop digital storytelling and automation tools that are accessible, secure, and grounded in equity. Bri leads through curiosity and empathy. She inspires her community to boldly envision a future that defies the status quo and moves us towards a more liberatory culture.

Denis

Denis is a lifelong culinary scholar. A former food industry professional (BOH iykyk), he spends all his free time thinking about food - cooking, eating, sharing, preserving, transforming, learning about it, teaching about it. His special interest is in food products like bread, cheese, wine, jam, sauces and the like, since they make great gifts. Feel free to ask him for a starter culture on Sundays!

Kerim

In an era of fast-paced entertainment, Kerim bridges disciplines with a laid-back style that still catches the eye of our rapidly-shrinking attention spans. KERIMtheDJ is a Brooklyn-born, Washington D.C.-based multimedia artist, DJ, and percussionist who fuses turntablism, electronic composition, and performance technology. With over a decade of experience, Kerim creates immersive sonic and visual experiences that reposition DJing as both a respected artistic medium and a tool for scholarly inquiry. While his career spans clubs, festivals, and competitions, he has also has been invited to bring his work to institutions such as The Phillips Collection and the Smithsonian, emphasizing live improvisation, sound design, and cultural storytelling. Although he is often a guest performer at venues around the globe, his time on stage and in the booth has slowly evolved into curation through projects such as his various online mix series and collaborative initiatives that showcase artists who inspire him. Through site-specific installations, community-rooted exploratory performance, and interdisciplinary curation, Kerim bridges art, science, and innovation in ways that engage and elevate diverse audiences.

Sam

Sam injects humanity and joy into politics to build collective infrastructure for community wealth. Political science is mostly filled with myths and bullshit. He also works ​to build community power and fight for co-operative economic development by co-facilitating the DC Community Wealth Builders. He wants to build commons and everyday, delicious democracies so that the city can give away some of its power to collaborative coalitions.​ He helped co-found Delicious Democracy (DC's Creative Advocacy Lab) which helped birth ReDelicious DC. He majored in Physics, mastered improvisation, and dances with magic. For joy, he throat sings, loops sounds, moves his body, forages, and cooks up some tasty treats.

Dave

David Chevalier Sampé is a DC-based artist and facilitator. He is the founder of Gentrified Wood and one of the original “OG” co-founder of ReDelicious DC. His practice blends storytelling, sound, and community healing. Through breathwork soundbaths, public art, and reclaimed materials, he creates spaces where people can listen, reflect, and reconnect

ç

ç has been on a stage since they could talk. A practiced public speaker, musician, improviser, and facilitator, ç excels at getting to the heart of the matter and prides themselves on asking the right question. They strive to learn as much as possible from each person they meet, understanding that to be an effective communicator, one should do more listening than talking. They left the corporate world behind in 2021 and began to follow their passions. They worked with friends and local artists to host a series of art festivals, and hope to host many more. They help out with with local queer organizers and fell in love with ReDelicious in the summer of 2024. Since then, ç has been voraciously learning about food, food systems, food storage and processing, fermenting, and so much more. Now a freelance teleprompter, ç can be seen at your local drag show, open mic, or experimental arts event smiling big, laughing loud, and doing their best to enjoy life.

Carrie

Carrie has always loved food, especially as a way to form connection, but how she interacted with food changed as she learned about how the food systems in the US were set up. In an effort to be more proactive in addressing food waste, she joined ReDelicious to support its operations. In addition to food, Carrie loves board games, to try new things, and is always down for an adventure! (she may also have a 1000 hobbies that she does once a year. . .so if you need a buddy?)

Aileen

Aileen attributes her love of food and the practice of sharing it to her upbringing, which taught her about regenerative agriculture and instilled an ethos that we all deserve access to nutritious, affordable, fresh food. She appreciates ReDelicious for not only redistributing food in a city with high rates of food insecurity, but also for inciting curiosity and creativity around food waste reduction.
When Aileen is not dabbling in a grant application or a new project for the co-op, she's often thinking about promoting individual and community level health through local ecosystems designed to cultivate physical, mental, spiritual, and material enrichment. Chat her up any Sunday about regenerative agriculture, public health, or where to find the best momo in DC.

Tina

I went through most of the ReDelicious rights of passage, from being dishwasher to being salad tsar to staying 'till 6:30 putting stuff away after distro. In more recent times, I was usually the girl walking around with a dog, who was usually behaving (the dog) and generally following the scent trail to the next best stick. Though I am now across the country (come see me in Cali if you're ever in the Bay!), I am striving to stay involved in the background, supporting the team in whatever way I can. I love to play banangrams, go on walks, and learn from my peers about the wonderful things one can make with what was once thought to be wasted food.

Lior

Lior is a founding member of ReDelicious. He believes legumes and pulses are the cornerstones of a healthy diet.

Axolotl

Axolotl is a co-director, herbalist, and community fermenter for ReDelicious, where they channel a decade of food systems work into mutual aid and food sovereignty. They bridge the worlds of ancestral wisdom and mycological science, designing popular workshops on tempeh, koji, and fermented sodas that empower the community to transform food waste into nourishment. Axol (assisted by Aaron) had the privilege of sharing their debut presentation Spores of Change: Cultivating Queer Food Systems Through Decentralized Networks at Mycofest 2025. Their work is rooted in the belief that resilient food systems are built through skill-sharing, decentralized networks, and joyful, accessible fermentation.

Eileen

Eileen has always loved food, primarily as an avid eater but more intentionally as a food justice advocate. With experiences in restaurants, SNAP policy, and food banks, she joined ReDelicious to be grounded in and help strengthen DC's food system.

Hannah

Before coming to DC in 2022 Hannah was the garden manager at an intentional community in rural Minnesota. She came to DC to be a Food Systems Consultant and currently uses her community building and fundraising skills to amplify ReDelicious' impact. Hannah spends her additional free time volunteering with other local hunger relief efforts - organizing with Ward 1 Mutual Aid and co-managing the garden at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House.

Steve

Steve is passionate about food waste reduction and believes that you, too, deserve a nice thing.

Susan

4th gen District native
20+ yr. resident of Edgewood
Former editrix
Current bon vivant

Chauncy

A trained plant pathologist and avid mushroom forager, Chauncy is passionate about connecting people with their environment and encouraging everyone to see themselves as scientists. He enjoys working with microbes to transform food waste into delicacies including miso and tempeh. When he’s not facilitating fermentation workshops he can be found frolicking in the forest or playing music.

Soniya

Soniya is a public health professional, experimental cake baker, mastermind of many a produce-based song lyric email newsletter subject line pun, and lover of sharing a good meal with friends and community. Soniya wrote her Master's thesis on the intersection of third places and mental health, and finds ReDelicious to be a space where she gets to put theory into practice - contributing to a space that serves as a wellspring of social connection, tangible resources, and community support - some of the key ingredients for mental wellness.

Aaron

Aaron, a founding member of ReDelicious, has always loved collaborative community food projects. He is commonly found hosting mycology workshops, lacto-fermenting peppers for hot sauce, foraging in the woods, or working on some crafting/DIY/punk art project. His favorite ReDelicious Sunday task is breaking down the sink.