Executive Director

Emily Scott moved to Vashon Island in 2012 to work at Pacific Crest Farm after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. Emily then worked at the Vashon Food Bank as Volunteer Program Manager from 2013-2017, at which point her interest in food systems and public policy led her to get her Masters in Public Administration from the UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. MPA in hand, Emily returned to the Vashon Food Bank in 2019 as Executive Director. Aside from equitable food systems and public policy, Emily’s interests include fruit and vegetable costumes (of all shapes and sizes), roller skating, crafting and passive water sports.

director@vashonfoodbank.org

Operations Manager

Duncan Goulding moved to Vashon from Seattle with his family in 2016. He joined the staff at the Food Bank in May of 2020. Duncan’s main hobbies have included listening to music, traveling, listening to music while traveling, and ping pong. Any vegetable costume quickly becomes his favorite vegetable costume to wear.

delivery@vashonfoodbank.org

Volunteer Program Manager

Leslie Hauck started working at the Vashon Food Bank in December of 2019, moving from Seattle to make Vashon her new home.She was drawn to the food bank because it combines her passions of helping people and feeding people (is cooking for others considered a love language?), understanding we live in community and rely on one another. Her background includes working with volunteers in many different settings: schools, a free health clinic, and a community center. Leslie loves to enable people to help others in their communities. Outside of work, Leslie loves to spend time with her precious grandchildren (and adult kids), garden, take walks, beachcomb, sew and do most anything artsy. Favorite veggie costume? Currently, a carrot, loving the little carrot-top hat.

volmanager@vashonfoodbank.org

Warehouse & Distributions Coordinator

Michael Whitmore is a third generation Angeleno, Michael Whitmore first moved to Vashon in 2005, moved off in 2008 and then moved back again for good in 2010. He has donned many a hat living here — musician, sound engineer, bartender, vinyl record barker, writer, music historian, music booker, artist, curator, house painter and very often a DJ (he also co-hosts the Friday Morning Scramble on our local KVSH 101.9FM). And on a good night, with the right or even the wrong ingredients, he’s a surprisingly good cook. Though on the best nights, Whitmore will be found wandering the streets of western Washington, in search of getting his spice on with a steaming bowl of Pho or Ramen. Though not currently available in the food bank’s costume closet, Michael’s favorite fruit/vegetable costume is, definitely, broccoli with a creamy cheese sauce.

michael@vashonfoodbank.org

Warehouse & Distributions Coordinator

Miles was born in West Seattle and moved to Vashon with his Mother and 3 siblings in 2013. He went back to Burien for high school - attending Waskowitz Environmental Leadership School, where he got to be a camp counselor for more than 30 weeks! Miles started out as a volunteer in 2019 and officially joined the Vashon Food Bank staff in 2022, as he continues to develop his leadership skills and involve himself with the community. In his free time, Miles enjoys swimming, cooking a hearty meal, and pondering the deepest questions - such as which fruit/vegetable costume is the best.

miles@vashonfoodbank.org

Financial Operations Manager

Kirstin joined our staff in August of 2023. Along with her family, she has been nurtured by the amazing island community for 30 years, so she jumped at the chance to join the team and help build and sustain the systems that provide food for the community. Like so many before her, she’s used a political science degree to work in numerous fields - most not related to politics. She has raised two Vashon-native daughters and served on the boards of Preserve out Island and the Vashon Scholarship Foundation. Her free time is spent hiking, kayaking, road-tripping, schmoozing with friends, and/or schmoozing with friends while hiking, kayaking, and road-tripping. Kirstin is still wandering the produce section, trying out the selection, but so far, she is partial to the pineapple.

kirstin@vashonfoodbank.org

Capital Campaign Manager

Minta comes from Eugene, Or where her parents instilled in her a love of nature, family, community service, and working to be true to herself. She's lived all over the PNW, with a two year stint in Barcelona. Her entire 16+ year-career (but for 6 mos.) has been in the nonprofit sector, always in fundraising, communications, and leadership positions. Minta has a (somewhat rare) love of fundraising, and feels proud to help raise the money needed to do critical work in her communities. She has lived in Seattle for the last 13 years, but has ties to Vashon, and a love for the art and quirks that the island is known for far and wide (particularly the Vashon artists that perform at the Oregon Country Fair, as she's attended every year of her life). Minta recently married the best person in the world, and enjoys reading, kayaking, snuggling, walking, cake baking, traveling, and hanging with her nieces, nephews, and goddaughter.

minta@vashonfoodbank.org