Our Team

Rey is a connector and advocate who supports the people making farm to school happen—linking folks for local procurement, garden education, and food system learning across Washington. As the WA Farm to School Network Coordinator, she works statewide to nourish kids, strengthen communities, and make farm to school more connected—and a lot more delicious. Because both good food and strong networks require time, care, and tending.

With a background spanning environmental engineering, agriculture technology, and wellness education, Madeleine is energized by farm to school because it connects child nutrition, education, soil health, and the local economy. She is building a network map of Washington’s F2S community to help tell the story of its evolution. 

Adasha is a Principal Investigator, Trauma‑Patterned Systems Architect, and Value Chain Specialist. She leads Modest Family Solutions and Black Seed AgroEcology Cooperative designing sovereign, land‑based models that strengthen regional supply chains, youth leadership, and farmer incubation through governance‑centered, culturally rooted agroecology and equitable community‑led food systems.

Adele Eslinger (she/her) grew up following her grandmother and mother around in their gardens, tasting plump berries and sweet peas.  After winding her way through degrees in linguistics, Spanish, and human rights, she found her way back to food. Now, she follows children around in school gardens, helping them learn to find and pluck their own tasty treasures.

Annette has over a decade of local food systems and farm to school experience, from hands-on garden and kitchen education to sales and marketing for a local food hub. In her role as WSDA Farm to School Lead, Annette works with schools, local farms, and other value chain actors, including fellow state agencies and non-profit partners, to facilitate new farm to school connections, identify opportunities to increase local, Washington grown food procurement, and reduce farm to school barriers through new resource development, technical assistance and training, and systems change work.

Bri Cowan is the Senior Manager of Youth Wellness at Dairy West, where she focuses on nutrition education and expanding dairy access in K–12 schools. Bri is passionate about supporting local farms and is proud to live in agriculturally rich Washington State, where opportunities to connect local farms with schools are abundant.

For over 35 years, she has been involved in all aspects of Cloud Mountain Farm including production, business development, marketing, distribution and processing.  She has developed relationships with wholesalers, food banks, school districts, hospitals and restaurants.  Currently she is a private contractor working on projects related to food systems.

Kendra leads the Farm to School team at NEWESD 101 in Spokane, supporting districts statewide and collaborating with regional producers to strengthen local food systems. Originally from Cleveland, she holds dual master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve University and co-manages Dogwild Farm while enjoying hiking and snowboarding.

Chef Kent Getzin is a Culinary Institute of America graduate with over 45 years of food service experience and a founding member of the Washington Farm to School Network. A former public school food service director, he built a scratch cooking program centered on partnerships with local producers. He now supports K–12 food service teams through consulting and serves on the Network’s Board.