FEEST Staff
FEEST is a Black-led, multiracial organization with strong LGBTQ+ leadership, made up of people deeply committed to youth-led systemic change. Our team includes community organizers, educators, artists, strategists, and nonprofit leaders who bring years of experience in youth development, youth organizing, food justice, health equity, fundraising, operations, and storytelling.
The majority of our staff were born and raised in the communities we serve, or reflect immigrant communities that we work with. We come from many walks of life and share a unified vision: building collective power with young people to reimagine what’s possible in our schools and communities.
Ammara
Youth & Community Organizing Coordinator
Ammara (they/she) is a youth organizer, facilitator, and artist whose work is grounded in healing justice, disability justice, abolitionist feminism, and ancestral land-centered wisdom. They are committed to supporting students in building deeply caring, sustainable and accountable movements that honor everyone’s wholeness and dignity. At FEEST, Ammara brings a tender, visionary approach to organizing—one that centers relationships, interdependence, and the sacred power of heart-rooted storytelling. When not working, they find joy in books, connecting with more-than-human kin, and creating love letters for our collective spirit.
Cilia
Development & Operations Director
Cilia (she/her) brings expertise in nonprofit development, fundraising strategy, and operations. With a graduate degree in Nonprofit Management and a strong focus on equity in philanthropy, she leads FEEST’s development and internal systems with care and precision. She loves FEEST’s focus on health equity, youth-led change, and radical joy. Outside of work, she finds grounding in community, desserts, and a quiet afternoon nap.
Devan
Communications & Development Manager
Devan (they/them) is a Black, Fat, Trans & Queer artist and organizer whose work lives at the intersection of storytelling, abolition, and youth-led change. Dev came up through community-based movements focused on ending the prison industrial complex, and carries forward a commitment to transformative justice, accountability, and Black liberation in all they do.
Before joining FEEST, Dev led youth-centered programs that uplifted community organizing, food access, and mental wellness. As a self-taught artist, their creative work centers joy, rest, and care for Fat, Queer, and Trans Black people. At FEEST, Dev brings a relational, strategic approach to communications and fundraising—grounded in Spirit, guided by the wisdom of their Ancestors, and always in service of student voice.
They are a future children’s book illustrator, a community cook, and a lover of naps, jokes, and soft days. Dev is always learning, always dreaming, and always rooting for young people to lead.
Erandy
Youth & Community Organizing Coordinator
Hanan
Youth & Community Organizing Coordinator
Hanan (she/her) is a youth organizer and educator whose work is grounded in Black liberatory education frameworks and mental health equity. With experience supporting students across age groups, she believes schools can become powerful spaces of resistance, healing, and transformation. At FEEST, Hanan supports student leaders in developing strategies that challenge systemic harm and uplift collective care. She brings curiosity, compassion, and a love for storytelling to her work.
Hannah
Food Access Manager
Hannah (they/them) is a land steward, facilitator, and food justice organizer whose work is rooted in Black liberation, food sovereignty, and community care. With a background spanning farming, native plant restoration, and farmers market management, they bring deep knowledge of local food systems and a passion for cultivating connection through land and culture. At FEEST, Hannah supports youth-led organizing through frameworks grounded in abolition, Black feminism, and radical joy. They believe in the power of young people to lead movements that nourish both body and spirit—and are committed to creating spaces where everyone can feel safe, fed, and free.
Jaimée
Executive Director
Jaimée (they/them) is a strategist, organizer, and storyteller with over 20 years of experience building community power, especially with trans and queer communities of color. Since first encountering FEEST in 2017, they’ve served as a volunteer, board member, and now Executive Director. Jaimée leads with a commitment to healing-centered leadership, joyful resistance, and co-creating transformative partnerships between youth, schools, and communities. Outside of FEEST, you might find them cooking up something delicious, snapping photos, or holding it down on the field as a fierce rec-league athlete.
Jess
Deputy Director
Jess (she/her) is a seasoned development strategist with nearly two decades of experience supporting grassroots movements for racial, social, and economic justice. She believes that the only way to build an inclusive culture of abundance is with solutions from the people with the most to gain from our collective liberation. At FEEST, she helps steward culture and strategy with deep care and clarity. Jess loves growing and sharing delicious food with wonderful people, and spending time outside.
Jude
Senior Youth & Community Organizing Coordinator
Jude (they/them) is a youth organizer, farmer, and student of liberation whose work is rooted in Disability Justice, food sovereignty, and Black Queer theory. With a background in psychology and comparative ethnic studies, they support FEEST’s youth-led campaigns with a commitment to dignity, wellness, and interdependence. Jude brings a deep reverence for land, learning, and collective imagination. When not organizing, they’re likely on a neighborhood walk, deep in a good book, or savoring a scoop of ice cream.
Noah
Youth & Community Organizing Coordinator
Noah (he/him) is a community organizer born and raised in Kent, WA. At the height of the George Floyd uprisings he began organizing in his city after seeing the immense mobilization being focused on Seattle. As an organizer who got his start during high school, his work has always been student centered and youth focused. Whether it was organizing for Kent’s budget to divest from police and allocate it back to schools for proper youth focused programming, or advocating with and on behalf of families impacted by police violence while attending Morehouse College, his work has always been rooted in abolitionist values and practices. When he’s not working he’s experimenting in the kitchen, spending time with family, or crate digging at the nearest record shop.
Remin
Food Access Coordinator
Remin (she/her) centers her life around her passion for food. As a food justice organizer, she strives to fight against food insecurity within communities of color and ensure families have access to fresh, culturally relevant food. She is influenced by her experiences stewarding the land, cooking in restaurants, and interacting with our local food system. As a Palestinian, Remin connects back to her people through educating, cooking, serving, and eating. She understands the value of food to communities of color goes beyond sustenance; it is the story of our land, a way to track our history, and a medium that brings us together. At FEEST, Remin supports our student leaders by opening the doors to our complex food systems and guides their exploration within them. In her free time, she is likely tracking down new gluten-free goodies, outside on an adventure, or screaming at a concert.
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