Our Team
Our Staff
Diane Calvin
Founder, Executive Director
Diane Calvin is the founder of CAFE Food Rescue. She held the vision of a food rescue organization for Summit County in her heart for many years. When COVID hit and food insecurity grew in Summit County, she decided to start CAFE Food Rescue, beginning as the sole worker, picking up and distributing food herself. As she found more support and help from friends, she began writing grant proposals and expanding the food rescued and redistributed.
She has a degree in civil engineering and a background in solid waste management. When living in Massachusetts, she worked with schools and secured grants to recover organic waste from lunches and improve recycling programs. When the family moved to Rhode Island, she continued to promote food rescue. She was a part of the RI Food Policy Council working to reduce wasted food. She also founded foodSCAPE, a nonprofit that worked with schools to divert food scraps into compost, piloted food recovery from the Summer Meals Program in Providence, and defined and published guidelines for donation of commercially packaged food and whole fruit from school lunches.
She believes deeply in this community and that our people care for others and for protecting our unique and fragile environment.
Hallie Kremske
Strategy & Development Director
As Strategy and Development Director at CAFE Food Rescue, Hallie draws on her expertise in fundraising strategy, donor relations, grant writing, organizational culture, and marketing to advance food rescue, climate action, and food equity in Summit County. She also teaches sustainability as an Adjunct Instructor at Colorado Mountain College and gets her hands in the dirt at the Summit CSA Farm.
Hallie believes that connection to the environment, respect for all living beings, and access to healthy food for all can bridge societal gaps and build resilient communities. Her background spans corporate America, nonprofit work, and bio-dynamic farming, and she holds an M.A. in International Development, Global Health, and Sustainability from the University of Denver. Locally, she has served as Development Director at the Family & Intercultural Resource Center and the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, and as Community Program Coordinator at High Country Conservation Center.
Leanne Kelly
Operations Manager
Leanne Kelly came to CAFE Food Rescue in late 2023, first as a volunteer and then as the Operations Manager. Although Leanne’s background is as an engineer, over time she recognized that she enjoys working in operations and organizational management, and that she could apply that to her commitment to food equity.
Leanne moved to Summit County in 2021 and started volunteering with FIRC in Dillon. Her passion for food led her to volunteer on a weekly basis unloading the truck and getting the food pantry set up. Before that, her volunteer work at her son’s school was providing meals for school activities.
At first Leanne’s commitment to CAFE Food Rescue was organizing volunteers, creating an online database and volunteer recruitment system. In 2024 she began managing operations, including software that helps things run smoothly behind the scenes. She has set up CAFE Food Rescue’s systems to capture food collection data, shifting from a paper-based system to volunteers entering data directly online from their phones.
Leanne says she is struck by the importance of food as “how we connect and how we bond. In Minnesota we used to have family over. They’d come over and we’d have that big meal. Food is a central piece of that. If there’s a family that is struggling to get food on the table, they’re not experiencing that.” Leanne hopes that by working with CAFE Food Rescue she is providing an opportunity for people to come together over a meal and laugh and share stories.
Leanne also notes that the food collected by CAFE Food Rescue is chef-prepared conference center food and food from high quality supermarkets. “This is good food!” Leanne says, “It’s healthy. It’s not processed.”
Osmedo Molano Navaez
Bilingual Food Specialist
CAFE Food Rescue’s Bilingual Food Specialist, Osmedo Molano Narvaez supports food packaging and food runs. Osmedo also makes sure that all of CAFE Food Rescue’s materials are translated into both Spanish and English.
Full Bio coming soon!
Our Board of Directors
Pam Jansen
Board President
Pam Jansen spent more than 30 years in the solid waste industry, much of it in senior leadership at WM (Waste Management), where she led revenue management, business strategy, and data analytics. That career gave her a clear view of how much good food ends up in landfills, and that’s what drew her to CAFE Food Rescue.
Pam started with CAFE as a volunteer in 2024 before joining the Board of Directors. She sees food rescue as one of the rare solutions that tackles two problems at once: it keeps food out of the landfill and gets it onto the tables of Summit County neighbors who need it. As Board President, she’s focused on putting her business and analytics experience to work, helping CAFE grow its reach and build the structure and funding to sustain it for the long term.
Pam lives in Silverthorne and has called Summit County home since 2019. Now retired, she spends her time skiing, hiking, biking, and photographing wildlife, both here in the mountains and on trips around the world.
Katrina Doerfler
Board Treasurer
As Cafe Food Rescue’s (CFR) Treasurer, Katrina is committed to identifying revenue opportunities and sustainably building CFR to meet the county’s needs. She has been active in the county-area food banks since 2020, when the pandemic hit. With such disparity of economic levels in county residents, she sees food recovery as both an environmental necessity (reducing methane gas in landfills) and solving the “meal gap” for our residents (ensuring our residents are food secure).
Katrina also volunteers with the Summit County Transit Board and is passionate about the intersection of transit services and food recovery/food pantries in the county. We have diverse terrain and extreme weather in our county and we should be coordinating to ensure that public transportation services support our food recycling efforts.
Katrina and her family love the beauty and outdoor recreation in Summit County. She has lived here since 2015, fully retiring at the end of 2019. She is a former CPA and Sales executive with 35+ years of experience.
Board Secretary
Youth Coordinator at Northwest Colorado Center for Independence
Leo Santos
Leo Santos was born in Mexico but has lived in Summit County since he was very young. He is very interested in being outside and enjoying everything that comes with the beautiful mountain community. He graduated from Snowy Peaks in 2012 and in 2019 began working for the Northwest Colorado Center for Independence. NWCCI helps people with disabilities in our county. He enjoys every second of living here and working with people “I wouldn’t change it for nothing in this world.”
Leo grew up in a single parent household and learned not to waste food because it was scarce. As he got older, paying for food on his own was also hard. He jumped at the chance to join the FIRC’s equity coalition working on providing healthy and affordable foods for everyone. He joined CAFE Food rescue to help the community he loves so much save as much food as possible.
Blanca Delao
Blanca De La O serves on the Food Equity Coalition and has worked at the FIRC for years. She is from Chihuahua Mexico and has lived in Summit County for 20 years. Her family always taught her to share food with others and never to waste it.
She is overjoyed to have the opportunity to raise her four kids in this community where they can be proud of their Mexican identity, heritage and values but also be able to immerse themselves in American culture. “Being a part of CaFe Rescue allows me to serve the generous and diverse community we love to call home.”
Will Shira
Will has been living full time in Summit County since 2013, and playing in the mountains for his entire life - except for four years in Boston at Tufts University to get his degree (hard to study in the mountains). As part of his Environmental Justice education and his work in restaurants to pay the bills, he became increasingly interested in food rescue as a solution for both food insecurity and environmental impact. Now serving on the board as a Industry Liaison, Will puts his extensive restaurant experience to work helping the community and place that he loves. "My goal is to help people who want to help people help people."
Currently, he works for the James Beard award winning restaurant, Rootstalk, as their maître d' and also volunteers with SOS Outreach through the winter season. When he's not there you can probably find him out paddle boarding whether or not the lakes have frozen over.