Meet the team behind the movement.

Anthony Myint, Executive Director

Anthony works to mobilize the restaurant industry and allies in the public and private sectors to support healthy soil as a solution to the climate crisis. He is also a chef, who won the 2019 Basque Culinary World Prize for his work with Zero Foodprint. Anthony is known in the restaurant industry as the Co-Founder of Mission Street Food (SF Chronicle's Most Influential Restaurant of the Past Decade", Mission Chinese Food (NY Times Restaurant of the Year - 2012) and The Perennial (Bon Appetit's "Most Sustainable Restaurant in the Country"). Anthony is currently on the Board of Trustees for the James Beard Foundation

Leo Beckerman, Director of Operations

Leo ensures Zero Foodprint functions as efficiently as possible for the greatest impact on climate change. Co-Founder of Wise Sons Deli, he has experience in the front of the house, back of the house, large scale production, and back office. He loves nurturing an idea into a full blown operation, creating systems and processes for scale. In addition to restaurants and small business, Leo has a background in public health and non-profit management, and has built and managed teams on three continents.

Elaine Chen, Operations Manager

Elaine is our resident root wrangler, cultivating fertile ground for our mission to bloom. She wields spreadsheets, nurtures partnerships, and operationalizes policies into a thriving ecosystem of best practices. From Michelin-starred plates to nourishing refugee and disaster relief kitchens, Elaine’s a Swiss Army knife of operations, seamlessly adapting her skills for positive change. Whether rallying volunteers to assemble mountains of sandwiches or curating authentic experiences, Elaine is fueled by the power of collective action to build a healthier, more equitable world, one delicious, informed step at a time.

JB Douglas, Marketing and Communications Manager

JB manages our marketing and communications, from strategy to daily operations. He’s passionate about using digital media to create real-world impacts that build a better food system. His circuitous career has taken him from experiential design in the arts to regenerative farm operations, to food access education, and to foraged food media. Today, his eclectic background has made him an expert collaborator and deft at telling stories that catalyze food system transformation. In addition to his work at ZFP, JB is completing his Master’s in Sustainable Food Systems from the Culinary Institute of America, and publishes recipes and articles about foraged foods for The Wild Grocery. JB has been a member of MENSA International for more than a decade, and recently earned one of the first scholarships from Noma for their Taste Buds R&D program.

Katya Forsyth, Healthy Soils Program Manager

Katya manages the CDFA Healthy Soil Program Block Grant, helping farmers and ranchers implement regenerative practices in California. Katya’s passion for regenerative agriculture was ignited after spending 6 months living and working on a permaculture farm in rural Costa Rica in 2019. Katya then earned an MS in Environmental Science and Policy from Northeastern University, where they focused their research on circular food systems and global food sovereignty movements. Their passion for food system circularity led them to pursue a career in the compost industry, working at Kellogg Garden Products and the California chapter of the United States Composting Council. Katya is excited that their work has come full circle, while staying grounded in their commitment to building healthy soil for a better climate.

Reggie Lee, Project Manager

Reggie creates internal tracking systems and manages processes that enable Zero Foodprint to confidently assess progress for all programs and funders. He is ZFP's go-to resource for all things project management, actualizing his passion to utilize technology to increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Reggie has a background in data science, biomedical research, and international humanitarian aid, leading malnutrition related projects for a US based NGO in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Malawi. During that time, Reggie led a large team of staff and community members to feed and reverse the effects of severe and moderate acute malnutrition for over 8,000 children.

Tiffany Nurrenbern, Director of Programs

Tiffany manages our member network and leads the team in communicating our mission to the public. She began her career studying the history of social movements, but has spent the last 15 years putting those lessons into practice. She works on projects that aim to redefine the power of networks in the midst of generational changes in how we cooperate, communicate, and affiliate with causes and organizations. For many years, Tiffany worked at Roots of Change where she built and facilitated the California Food Policy Council, and led ROC's Urban-Rural Roundtable Program. She previously served as program director for the Farmers Guild and a campaign consultant while concurrently working front of house at a ZFP member restaurant. She has served in Slow Food leadership at the chapter, state, and international level, and is currently on the board of Slow Food USA.

Alana Williams, Restore Program Manager

Alana manages all aspects of the Restore Grant Program, with the goal of scaling internal systems to be able to fund more soil health projects. Her experience in regenerative agriculture began back in 2018 with an internship with Kiss the Ground. She then moved to New York to obtain her master’s in Food Studies at NYU, during which time she served as the policy intern for Slow Food USA. She managed farmer relations for a start-up creating a virtual marketplace for local produce, and has worked at farmer’s markets and volunteered on farms, community gardens and green roofs across the country.

Jami Witek, Grants Manager

As Grants Manager, Jami spends her days working behind the scenes ensuring our Compost Connector and Spreading Soil Wealth programs are running smoothly. She can often be found chatting with farmers about compost and helping California jurisdictions meet their SB1383 procurement goals. When she’s not talking compost, Jami can be found in her community garden plot.