Meet the Leadership Team
VISTA Coordinator: Anna Helena Denis
Lena Denis graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2011 with a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History. Now she serves in the JHU Center for Social Concern as an AmeriCorps VISTA working on sustainable food and nutrition. She is involved in Campus Kitchens because she firmly believes that no one should have to go hungry, and that the program’s unique vision of food recycling is a pragmatic step in solving the intertwined problems of hunger and poverty. Lena is also crazy about art and exploring Baltimore.
Executive Board Members
Audrey Swanenberg: Director of Food Resourcing
Andrew Lee: Operations Coordinator
Diane Hwang: Food Resourcing Liaison
Hi, my name is Diane Hwang. I’m from Acton, MA, and I’m a neuroscience major at Hopkins. The irony of the hunger issue in America and around the world has always been something I’ve been concerned with. There’s overproduction and overconsumption happening in concert with an overwhelming malnutrition problem, especially prevalent in Baltimore. It’s only through Campus Kitchens that I feel I’ve been able make a small difference in this weird situation that is our food system.
As a director of the Food Resourcing Committee, I get to see the car-loads of food that, without Campus Kitchens, would’ve been thrown away and being a part of the process of converting that food into hot meals or lunches for people who need them is pretty awesome!
Eve Rorison: Nutrition Coordinator
Eve Rorison is a senior from Baltimore studying Public Health Studies. She is interested in food access, nutritional needs, specifically working with and educating children. At Campus Kitchens, she teaches weekly nutritional cooking classes with Waverly Middle school students.
Judy Park: Programming Director
Katherine Tan: Social Media Director
Katherine Tan is a junior Molecular Biology/Applied Mathematics major. She thinks that food should not be wasted, and people should not live in isolation, and hence was drawn to campus kitchen’s mission of redistributing food to the community.
She loves taking long walks on Saturday mornings, experimenting with new ingredients, and making music.
Rachel Burns is senior at Johns Hopkins majoring in public health and anthropology, and is serving as the Director of Volunteer Relations for Campus Kitchens this year. She became involved with Campus Kitchens because of several friends who were founding members of the Hopkins chapter. She is incredibly interested in helping to feed those without food in the city and working on producing healthy, locally grown food for city of Baltimore through both action and education.
Sarah Smith: Food Resourcing Liaison
Sarah Smith is a senior neuroscience major from rural upstate New York. She has always had a passion for community service and saw Campus Kitchens as a hands-on, common sense organization with the ability to create a significant impact in the fight against hunger. She is involved in various other community service organizations on campus, including the American Red Cross and Health Leads, as well as captaining the Hopkins softball team. She is also an avid Red Sox fan.
Julia Zhang: Shift leader, Programming committee
Julia Zhang is a junior majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minoring in Psychology at JHU. She is originally from Honolulu, and ever since coming to Baltimore, has found herself invested in food-related issues. She believes that the expansion of education, community gardening, and food recovery efforts is key to solving food insecurity in the city.
In her spare time, Julia enjoys cooking with friends, writing vignettes, and watching musicals.
