Our Staff

Melissa Self Patrick
Executive Director

Leslie Adams
Office Manager

Jeff Bowman
Social Worker (LGSW), Homelessness Prevention

Belle Carlisle
Director, Compassion Ministries and Community Kitchen

Karl Carlisle and Juanita Holmes
Community Kitchen Assistants

Wayne Hutcheson
Bookkeeper

Robyn Hyden
Director, Development and Communications

Danny Jones
Director, Joe Rush Center for Urban Mission & Volunteer Recruitment

Nonhlanhla Jones
Market Manager, WE Community Gardens

R. G. Lyons
Pastor, Community Church Without Walls

Kuryne Lee
Director, Urban Kids Afterschool & Summer Learning Program

Stephanie Cook, Larry Henderson, Rodragus Woods and Lindsay Whiteaker
Urban Kids Assistants

Joel Moore
Site Manager, Joe Rush Center for Urban Mission

Ama Shambulia
Director, WE Community Gardens

Myron Pierre
Garden Manager, WE Community Gardens

Jessica Blue
Plant Care Specialist, WE Community Gardens

Antonio Robeiro Howard
Assistant Market Manager, WE Community Gardens; Assistant Transportation Coordinator

Ernestine Washington
Transportation Ministry Coordinator

Georgia Wilson
Social Worker (LCSW), Beeson Senior Services