Food Pantry founder Sara Miles.

Sara Miles
Founder and Executive Director

Sara is the founder of The Food Pantry (formerly St. Gregory’s Food Pantry). A journalist and the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, she works as the Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

Paul Fromberg

Paul is the Rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church. He has a B.A (Rhodes College, Memphis), M. Div. (Marriage and Family Ministry, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena), and C.I.T.S. (Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin). Paul is a cook, a pastor, a teacher and an artist; he cooks lunch every week for the food pantry volunteers.

Michael Reid

Michael is the Pantry Manager. Every Friday you can find Michael at the pantry on De Haro Street bright and early managing every aspect of the pantry’s operations—from unloading the food delivery to solving problems, greeting families and helping train new volunteers. Michael explains why he works so hard: “At the end of each Friday evening, 700 families will have food for dinner.”

John Golenski
Secretary

John serves as our Secretary. He was a Jesuit for 24 years, and is now an Episcopal priest. He became a member of St. Gregory’s in 1997. John has worked as both chaplain and psychologist at the Children’s Hospital in Oakland, and has worked in health care and bioethics on a clinical and policy level. He is the executive director of the children’s hospice, George Mark House, in Oakland, and works with children and families.

Regina Davis

Regina serves as the Executive Director of the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering stability in the city’s minority communities through the development of affordable housing and the facilitation of home ownership. She has helped The Food Pantry launch new pantries around the city.

Susan Kellerman
Treasurer

Susan serves as The Food Pantry’s Treasurer. Susan is a member of St. Gregory’s and a dedicated volunteer with The Food Pantry.

Tricia McCarthy
Consultant to the Food Pantry

Following a career as an attorney, Tricia founded the Bridge of Books Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing free books to at-risk children. Through her work with Bridge of Books, she became exposed to the lack of food so many families face on a daily basis. Tricia returned to school and earned a Masters in Nonprofit Administration. Since that time, she has been committed to providing those in need with healthy food in a positive environment.