GreenStar Community Projects, Inc.

Board of Directors

Ellen Baer, Vice President

Daniel Hoffman

Lenore Olmstead, President

Dara Silverman

Claudia Stoscheck

Committee Members

Deirdre Silverman, Fundraising Committee

Program Coordinator

Elizabeth Karabinakis

Liz Karabinakis helped form GreenStar Community Projects, Inc. (GSCP) as GreenStar Cooperative Market's first Member Services Manager in 2004. Although no longer a manager at the Co-op, she continues to help GreenStar fulfill its mission to improve the community's access to healthy food as the Program Coordinator of GSCP, the co-op's tax-exempt non-profit affiliate.

Liz also currently serves as the Community Food Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, is the Vice President of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), facilitates Talking Circles on Race & Racism for the Multicultural Resource Center and co-organizes Ithaca's annual Summertime Block Party. Liz received an Environmental Systems Engineering degree with a concentration on Sustainable Community Development from Cornell University.

Liz's goal is to use the cooperative model and principles to re-regionalize a sustainable and equitable food system that is healthy for all people and the web of life that supports us. Her work with cooperatives began while in Brazil as a solidarity worker with MST (Landless Workers Movement) where she taught and learned on Cooperativa Assentamento Terra Livre (Cooperative Settlement of Free Land, COOPCAL) and later lived deep in restricted areas of the Amazon with indigenous river dwelling communities.

Liz’s interests include member/producer/worker-owned co-ops as an alternative model to profit-driven corporations, fostering food equity & sovereignty, promoting cooperation, experiencing different food cultures around the world and honoring the roots of the sustainability movement with indigenous peoples.

Dara Silverman is a consultant, organizer and trainer who has worked to build movements for economic, racial and gender justice over the past 15 years. She was the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) from 2004-2009. Prior to her work at JFREJ, Dara worked with United for a Fair Economy, Neighbor to Neighbor, the Ruckus Society and on various local and national campaigns across the country. Her work has been published or featured in the New York Times, Tikkun, Zeek, Heeb, Curve, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice and co-authored The Love and Justice in Times of War Haggadah.

Dara has extensive experience campaign development and planning, supporting new and experienced organizers, grassroots and foundation fundraising, strategic planning, and board development. She is currently consulting with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Minkwon, Empire State Housing Alliance, Fort Greene SNAP and the Correctional Association of NY.

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