JULIE WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT

Julie Williams currently serves as Board Secretary and Marketing Chair for Taste Project and its pay-what-you-can restaurant Taste Community Restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas.

Her heart and passion for community and connection have played a critical role in telling the story of Taste Project and Taste Community Restaurant and creating an impact that runs deeper than just food.

With over 10 years sales and marketing experience in healthcare, Julie has successfully transitioned her skills to the nonprofit sector.

As a part of One World Everybody Eats Board of Directors, Julie is a critical player in the short-term and mid-term strategy development to position the organization for the next stage of growth.

JENNIFER EARLE, Treasurer

Jennifer Earle currently serves as the Executive Director of Grace Cafe and Financial Officer at Trinity Episcopal Church in Danville, KY. She has been a non-profit accountant for over 24 years, working for various organizations in the US and overseas.

Besides being a lover of numbers and statistics, she is passionate about food and feeding all in the community.   Jennifer developed a love for cooking while living in Uganda and England with the help of an early 80’s cookbook.

When she isn’t working she loves traveling with her family and spending time in her garden.

LORI BORCHERS, SECRETARY

Lori Borchers is an instructor in the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Texas Christian University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the University of Kansas and a Master’s degree in Adult Health Nursing from Georgia State University. Before coming to TCU, she worked for more than 20 years as a Registered Nurse in a variety of settings. Currently, she teaches undergraduate nursing students while also working on her PhD in Educational Leadership at TCU. Her area of interest is the One World Everybody Eats community model and how it can be used to help decrease food insecurity on college campuses.

Most recently, Lori created and taught an online class which focused on food insecurity and building a business plan for a pay-what-you-can café in the student’s own chosen geographical area.  In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering at the Taste Community Restaurant in Fort Worth with her husband and children.

ERICA CUNNINGHAM, BOARD MEMBER

Erica began cooking at the age of twelve for her family of seven in St. Louis. She currently has over thirty years of cooking experience. Erica gained a wealth of global food knowledge from her time living overseas for five years while serving in the U.S. Navy. After military service and IT contract work, she studied culinary arts and food service management in San Francisco. In culinary school she was diagnosed with a life-altering autoimmune illness that forced her to shift her food-focused path. She discovered an academic lens in which she could continue to study food and went on to earn a degree in Environment Studies and Sustainability with a focus on food security.

In 2014, she returned to her hometown of St. Louis after over two decades and put her passions and talents to work on food access and education projects. In St. Louis, she volunteered at a weekly Whole Foods Market Food Share she helped launch with her parents’ church. She taught yoga and mindfulness techniques to children in under-served neighborhoods throughout the city. Also, she served with AmeriCorps at an organic farm school in Ferguson, where she helped to empower young people to cook and eat healthy foods.

In 2017, she began to host pay-what-you-can pop up dinner events around the city of St. Louis called Souper Soul[full] Sundays. At these events she utilized some after-market produce and food items from local farms, grocery stores, and farmers markets to create healthy meals. At these events she curated music and maintained an interactive creative space she called the Art Bar. Food Church was the culmination of Erica’s life work to unite and uplift people through food, music, art, and compost for nearly three years until she left the state.

Erica is currently a seminary graduate student studying spirituality with plans to launch a pay-what-you-can retreat center that emboldens people to cook, play, contemplate, and heal. She resides in Northern California.

Michelle Watts, Board Member

Michelle Watts is the former Executive Director and a co-founder of the nonprofit One Acre Café in Johnson City, Tennessee.  She was instrumental in the startup and operation of this organization for ten years. 

Michelle worked for many years in the education system and corporate business sector before moving into nonprofit work.  She has an extensive background in administration, service-learning, volunteer coordination, event planning and implementation, logistics and human resources. 

Michelle is very passionate about providing resources and learning opportunities for those in need and for these to be given with the grace and dignity that everyone deserves.  This desire to create a better system developed after some unavoidable challenges in her own life.

Michelle previously found herself in a position that required assistance from others to help her provide for her children.  She remembers struggling to find resources in her community and the undignified way they were treated by some of the organizations.

Being a part of One Acre Café and One World Everybody Eats has shown her how community members can work together to support each other and make their communities stronger.

In her spare time, Michelle is an amateur photographer, a lover of all things in nature, and she enjoys nothing more than spending time with her loved ones – two legged and four legged. 

RENEE BOUGHMAN, Advisory board member

Executive Chef, Renee Boughman, has been a founding member of F.A.R.M. Cafe from concept in 2009 to opening day in 2012. She works hands on in the cafe every day as the lead chef and Executive Director of the cafe.

Renee has over 35 years in food service experience as well as a Master’s Degree in History from Appalachian State University. She received her B.S. Degree in Culinary Arts from Asheville Buncombe Technical College and worked in several fine dining kitchens in Blowing Rock, NC. F.A.R.M.

Cafe has been a natural fit for Renee as she is able to combine her love of teaching with her passion for cooking and sharing stories with others “in the fields” of life’s work.

Denise Cerreta, Founder & ADVISOR

In 2003, Denise’s career changed from cafe owner to philanthropist and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of One World Everybody Eats [OWEE], a simple pay-what-you-can idea that has ripened into a global non-profit. It was a single moment in a standard day at her cafe, one that she calls her ‘Field of Dreams’ experience, that inspired this dramatic shift in the way she – and now, the world – views and supports feeding those who are hungry.

Working from a core belief in the delicate integration of compassion, food, community and social change, Denise is considered a pioneer in social service provision, and simply by sharing her own experiences, inspires others to do the same.

Debbi Casini Klein, ADVISOR

Debbi Casini Klein has been a board member for OWEE for five years. She was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended John Carroll University with a triple major in journalism, psychology and sociology. Deb has worked in the media business for more than three decades and has been the recipient of many local and national awards for her work in television, including five Emmy Awards.

She is also a writer, TV and radio interviewer, publicist, casting director, special events coordinator, food tour guide, travel agent, and pre-school teacher. Her passion is doing volunteer charity work for many organizations in Pittsburgh where she resides with her husband and two children.

Frederick A. Miller, DIRECTOR EMERITUS

As CEO and Lead Strategist of the Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. – named one of Consulting Magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010 – Fred specializes in developing workforce utilization strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher organizational performance. A pioneering change agent and thought leader in the field of organizational development, he has led transformative change interventions in Fortune 50 Corporations, large not-for-profit organizations and government agencies throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

His experience includes positioning leaders for success in start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures, and transitioning from founder-led companies to the next generation of leadership. Cited as a forerunner of corporate change in The Age of Heretics:  A History of the Radical Thinkers who Reinvented Corporate Management, Fred has been honored as the OD Network’s youngest lifetime achievement award recipient as one of the 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal and as one of the Legends of Diversity by the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals.

Author of more than 100 articles in journals such as The OD Practitioner, HR Professional, Chief Learning Officer, and Executive Excellence, Fred was managing editor of the classic The Promise of Diversity (1994, Irwin), and co-author with Judith H. Katz, of The Inclusion Breakthrough:  Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity (2002, Berrett-Koehler), Be Big:  Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold (2008, Berrett-Koehler), and Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration:  4 Keys That Change EVERYTHING (2013, Berrett-Koehler).

Fred is also a past member of Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Day & Zimmerman, the Sage Colleges, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Automated Technology Systems. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Sage Colleges in May 2017 and achieved the Form on Workplace Inclusion's 2018 Winds of Change Award.