FOOD ACCESS PROGRAMS MANAGER

Cristina Berthelot was raised in the heart of Sportsman's Paradise amongst a family of fishers and tobacco farmers in Southern Louisiana. As a first generation college graduate, Cristina's childhood days spent in a flat boat on the bayou evolved into a B.G.S. concentrating in environmental sociology, minoring in biology from Southeastern Louisiana University. While at SELU, their studies reached areas of food inequity, sustainable agriculture, and regional food systems. After a summer of studying these principles abroad in Cuba and many years serving the Crescent City Farmers Market in New Orleans, Cristina has focused on food justice through farmers markets, promoting the importance of fresh local foods, sustainable farming practices, and food sovereignty.

From one port city to another, Cristina is excited to call Maryland home, join the SMADC team and work with the Maryland Market Money program. Cristina enjoys cooking, cinematography, and getting her hands in the dirt.

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FOOD ACCESS PROGRAMS SPECIALIST

Raised in the Seattle area, Kelley holds a Master of Science in Public Health and Nutrition degree from Johns Hopkins University, where she focused on food systems and federal food assistance programs. At Hopkins, she worked as a research assistant for the Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) application, a web-based mobile app designed to improve the food distribution network in Baltimore City by connecting small retail food store owners with local farmers to acquire fresh produce. This experience inspired her interest in all things agriculture. She interned for EastWest Food Rescue in Washington, a non-profit that purchases surplus produce from farmers and redistributes it to low-income individuals, as an assistant market manager of the Rockville Farmers Market during the 2021 market season, and even maintained a garden plot at the Locust Point Community Garden.

Kelley is excitd to join the SMADC team and apply her experience in food systems, community food access, and mobile technology to support the success of the Maryland Market Money program.

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