Our 2025 Board

Brad Sheridan
Brad (he/him) is an employee and owner-member at Fiddleheads Food Cooperative in New London , CT. His many job responsibilities include owner services, marketing, and planning events and classes. He is also an artist, father, and husband.

Committee(s): Marketing & Communications

Jeremy
Jeremy (he/him) is an engineer, a father & husband, a community organizer, a Co-founder for Bridgevolt Cooperative, and libertarian socialist. He believes strongly in our capacity to build a future without coercion but in order to do that we must build the new world within the shell of the old. A well connected and sustainable solidarity economy is the biggest missing factor toward achieving this ideal and as such he has dedicated himself to building that second economy that prioritizes the people's negative and positive freedoms and a sustainable relationship with the ecology.

Committee(s): Governance (Chair)

Reggy St Fortcolin
Reggy (he/him) is the founder of Fridgeport, a mutual aid network launched in May 2021 to improve food access across Connecticut. Operating community refrigerators in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford, Fridgeport supports 150–200 people daily with a “take what you want, leave what you can” model and has distributed over 200 tons of food since its inception. Beyond Fridgeport, Reggy is a founding member of the Liberated Land Coalition, a Black and Brown-led cooperative focused on equitable access to food and land, and is developing the Sovereign Land Trust to amplify underrepresented voices in land stewardship. His recent legislative achievement, HB6854, created the Food and Nutrition Analyst role to combat food insecurity, established tax incentives for grocery stores to open in food deserts, promoted cross-departmental collaboration, and made grant distribution more equitable. Through grassroots initiatives and impactful policy work, Reggy is driving systemic change to ensure communities across Connecticut have access to nutritious food and sustainable opportunities.

Committee(s): Membership & Learning (Chair), Governance

Roslyn Sotero

Roslyn (she/ella) is the Founding Executive Director of The People’s Place, a grassroots organizer, and trained anti-racist facilitator with over a decade of experience building critical analysis, cooperative and strategic partnerships, and adaptive infrastructure for justice powered movements. She is a skilled and tenacious change agent who believes firmly in our responsibility and ability to build communities, institutions and systems that put care and an irrefutable respect for life at the center.

Committee(s): Marketing & Communications

Sarah Bodley

Sarah (she/her), Executive Director of reSET Social Enterprise Trust, is a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience leading organizations focused on entrepreneurship and the arts. A former professional modern dancer, Sarah earned a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase and an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College. She is passionate about systems change, sustainability, equality and justice, and believes that business should be a positive force for change in the world. 

Committee(s): Development & Operations (Co-Chair), Membership & Learning, Governance

Slate Ballard

Slate (he/him) is a creative, communications, and community change consultant, a committed partner, father, and believer in the magic that arises in community. Slate grew up in Fayetteville Arkansas where he worked for Ozark Natural Foods Cooperative. Slate has lived in the New Haven area for over 20 years. During the last two decades he co-founded The Grove, an award-winning coworking and community space, and The State House, a multi-purpose performance venue. Slate is currently a Core Team Member at Co-creating Effective and Inclusive Organizations (CEIO), where he works with community serving organizations and organizers to fully embody inclusivity, justice, and conscious co-creation. Slate holds a B.S. from Southern Connecticut State University with a focus on management, organizational communications, and psychology.

Committee(s): Marketing & Communications (Chair), Membership & Learning, Development & Operations

Caprice Taylor Mendez

Caprice (she/ella) is currently the President of Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, aiming to build people power for Health Justice. Caprice has worked in the nonprofit sector in support of our collective liberation for over 30 years globally, nationally and locally. Born in Guatemala of a Black Guatemalan father and Ladino Guatemalan mother, she arrived in the mid 1970’s to New Haven, CT as an undocumented child. Caprice graduated from Boston College in Psychology focused on violence prevention and government and family systems; with a Master’s from Harvard's School of Education in Administration, Social Policy and Planning.

Rebecca Fletcher

Rebecca (she/her) Rebecca brings 19 years of experience working in the field of economic justice, with a focus on community loan funds and community land trusts. In her work with Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, a nonprofit loan fund, Rebecca makes loans to co-ops in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and provides business development support. She’s made loans for affordable housing, worker-owned cooperatives, food co-ops, farmers, and nonprofits, and for 10 years, she provided intensive project development support to shared equity projects around the country. She served on the founding board of Grow Food Northampton through a capital campaign to acquire 121 acres that became the Northampton Community Farm.

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