team
Meet The Individuals Behind MFFC
staff
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director. She currently holds a MS. in Nonprofit Management from Northeastern University. Among administrative duties she helps to support the Vigorous Youth in their bike related work.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Karleena "Kay" Savage
Active Living + Environment Coordinator
Karleena has a BS in Healthcare Management. She has worked in the medical field for about 10yrs and is currently transitioning into personal fitness/training. Her passion is to educate and help women live a more healthier lifestyle, after she herself had a health scare. She is a native of Mattapan and resides in Dorchester with her 2 children.
Vickey Siggers
Food Access Manager
Vickey Siggers first became involved in Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition 14 years ago as the Community Leader for Healthy on the Block Initiative. She now runs the Mattapan Square Farmers Market and the Summer Eats meal sites at the market and Mattapan Branch Library. Vickey also works at the Family Engagement Network.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Lesly Adame
Food Access Coordinator
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Board Members
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Vivien Morris, MS, RD, MPH, LDN
Board Chair
Vivien is a founder of the Boston Organization of Nutritionists and Dietitians of Color, a professional organization devoted to increasing African American and Afro Caribbean nutritionists and dietitians and providing nutrition education in the community. She also founded MFFC.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Sonia Carter, MS, LDN
Board Member
Sonia Carter, MS, LDN, has been a part of MFFC since 2007. She is currently the Nutrition and Wellness Program Manager at the Boston Public Health Commission and provides leadership and management for the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention. At MFFC she co-chairs the annual Mattapan Moving for Life event and cooking classes.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Reann Gibson, MPH
Board Member
Reann Gibson, MPH
Board Member
Reann is the Senior Research Fellow at the Conversation Law Foundation. When she's not serving on the leadership team, Reann can be found doing participatory action research related to gentrification at the Conservation Law Foundation, taking care of plants, or riding her bike around Boston.
When she's not serving on the leadership team, Reann can be found doing participatory action research related to gentrification at the Conservation Law Foundation, taking care of plants, or riding her bike around Boston.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Vickey Siggers, BS
Board Member
Vickey Siggers first became involved in Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition 13 years ago as the Community Leader for Healthy on the Block Initiative. She now runs the Mattapan Square Farmers Market and the Summer Eats meal sites at the market and Mattapan Branch Library. Vickey also works at the Family Engagement Network.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Theresa Jordan, MPA
Board Member
Theresa Jordan is Director of Children’s Facilities Finance for the Children’s Investment Fund, a state-wide technical assistance and finance organization serving early care and education and out-of-school time programs in Massachusetts. At MFFC she helps co-chair the annual Mattapan Moving For Life event.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Robyn Gibson
Robyn Gibson has ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations on development, fundraising, strategy, and equity and inclusion. She is currently working at YW Boston as the Program Manager for InclusionBoston.
Board Member
Robyn Gibson
Board Member
Robyn Gibson has ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations on development, fundraising, strategy, and equity and inclusion. She is currently working at YW Boston as the Program Manager for InclusionBoston.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Efrain Arias
Board Member
Efrain Arias is an experienced programs manager with over twelve years of experience in the non-profit and government sector. Efrain has extensive experience building programs and coalitions to develop more equitable access to social services and opportunities. Currently, he serves as the Program Director for the Neighborhood Trauma Team Network at the Boston Public Health Commission. When Efrain is not working or volunteering, he likes to spend time with his family and catch up on the Red Sox and Celtics.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
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Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Marilynne Smith Quarcoo, PHD
Board Member
Marilynne is an anti-racist, anti-bias, multicultural educator committed to equity and excellence for all brought over forty years of experience in public education. She has worked at the New School for Children, served as Acting Director at the Alliance for Coordinated Services, worked as the K-12 METCO Director, and much more!Dr Smith Quarcoo raised over $750K in grants to support school programs and teacher professional development. She received her BA in Elementary Education, MEd in Educational Psychology, and a PhD in Educational Administration from Boston College. Dr Smith Quarcoo’s dissertation focused on the achievement motivation of African American females in predominately white high school settings.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
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Robyn Gibson
Board Member
Shari Campbell
Board Member
Shari is certified Personal Trainer, Group Exercise Instructor, business owner, and former educator. She transitioned into wellness after a short stint working as a Guidance Counselor in a competency-based alternative education program for the Boston Public Schools. She has since spent time in various roles assessing social-emotional learning in pre-school age children to directing adult healthy living programs for the YMCA of Greater Boston. What is clear to her is that wellness is not just limited to one domain, and that achieving community wellness is a complicated problem that requires a 360 degree approach.
Robyn Gibson has ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations on development, fundraising, strategy, and equity and inclusion. She is currently working at YW Boston as the Program Manager for InclusionBoston.
Interns
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Moctar Fall
MIT, Student Intern
A native New Yorker, Moctar has a BS from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, with a department concentration in the histories of built and lived environments and is currently a masters candidate in this department, with a focus on food planning and transportation planning.
His interests revolve around community development, transportation in the lived environment, food history within the community and food as a source of power and identity. In his free time, he enjoys practicing taekwondo, biking, video gaming, cooking/eating good food and watching documentaries.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
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Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Gordon Wayne
BC Student, Intern
I am a Junior in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, with a concentration in Management and Leadership. My personal experience dealing with homelessness and its gargantuan obstacles have motivated me to help others overcome their own similar problems. I strongly believe that homelessness should not exist in our country any longer and am ready to embark on any solution that may help to mitigate the crisis in some way. I plan on becoming an affordable housing developer after graduation, with the aim of revolutionizing the entire process.
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Robyn Gibson
Board Member
Terence Crawly
NEU, Student Intern
Terence is a graduate student of public health at Northeastern University, where he also received his BS in Biology. He is passionate about food policy reform and is therefore very excited to work with MFFC on their food justice efforts. If you see him helping out at the Saturday farmer's market, come say hi!
Robyn Gibson has ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations on development, fundraising, strategy, and equity and inclusion. She is currently working at YW Boston as the Program Manager for InclusionBoston.
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Claire Hines
BC, Student Intern
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Claire is an intern at MFFC focused on assisting with the annual Mattapan Square Farmer's Market. She is an incoming senior at Boston College studying Operations Management with a minor in French. She is very excited for this opportunity at MFFC!
Shavel'le Olivier, MS
Executive Director
Kaymesha Vital
BU Student, Intern
Shavel'le has been a Mattapan resident for 15 years and is MFFC's first Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
Robyn Gibson
Board Member
EvansFrimpong Kyei
UMASS, Student Intern
I am Evans Kyei, a Ph.D. Student at UMass Boston studying Health Policy and Population Health. I have eight years of experience in the medical field. As a health researcher my goal is to promote the well-being of individuals and to ensure health equity among diverse populations.
Robyn Gibson has ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations on development, fundraising, strategy, and equity and inclusion. She is currently working at YW Boston as the Program Manager for InclusionBoston.