Our Team

Adrian González

Network Outreach Coordinator

Adrian joined the FoodShare team in February of 2023. By day, Adrian specializes in connecting people through ideas and creating systems to encourage growth across the statewide network of FoodShare hubs. By night, Adrian is the frontman and lead singer of the high energy pop-rock band, The Regulars, and comes alive on-stage as an electrifying performer. Adrian is passionate about people and feeding a need in the local community. Before FoodShare, he worked for several churches and other non-profits and even started his own media company, which took him all over the world and gave experience in many different industries. In his free time, you can find Adrian planning his next adventure, writing a song or two on his guitar, and building a life with his wife, Allie.

Annette Duncan

Business Assistant

Annette joined the FoodShare team in May 2021, as the HUB Manager for FoodShare Richland. She worked directly with FoodShare clients in placing orders for healthy fruit and vegetable boxes. Annette was promoted in September 2022, to Business Assistant Manager, supporting our Business Director, Melissa Lewie, MBA. Annette is enthusiastic and passionate about her job! She takes care of everyday financial tasks, building operations, and various administrative duties.

Annette retired from AT&T and went back to school and completed a degree as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. She is very active in her community with a focus on moving communities forward to the formulation of healthy status goals. Alongside FoodShare, Annette’s dedicated to serving the purpose of feeding a need in the community.

Carrie Draper, MSW

Co-Founder and Evaluator

Carrie Draper co-founded FoodShare South Carolina to expand access to fresh produce especially for people who receive SNAP. She is a Senior Research Associate in the Arnold School of Public Health’s Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior. There she oversees studies and guides implementation projects related to equitable food access, improving household and community food security, and strengthening nutrition assistance programs, including serving as the founding Principal Investigator of the University’s SNAP-Ed Implementing Agency. She supports evaluation activities of FoodShare to answer questions like, “Is the FoodShare model associated with improved household food security and dietary intake among customers?” and “What are the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of scaling up the FoodShare model around the state?”

Gabriel Wilhelm

Network Outreach Coordinator

Gabriel joined the FoodShare Squad in July 2019. He spends his days igniting conversations about good healthy food and community engagement. His main focus is to expand the FoodShare program into rural communities outside of Richland County and to help grow more partner sites. He enjoys working with organizations serving rural populations because of the deep sense of community and commitment to bring fresh food access to every corner of South Carolina. With a background in minor league sports entertainment, Gabe keeps things fun at the office and the FoodShare Hub. When he’s not generating joy at FoodShare SC, you can find him bringing smiles to his loving wife and three rambunctious boys.

Gordon Schell, M.Ed.

Director of Marketing and Digital Strategies

Gordon joined the FoodShare team after a lengthy career in higher education administration and nonprofit association management. In 2017 he was looking for an opportunity to serve his local community in a more meaningful way and FoodShare was the answer. Through managing our social media, creating print/digital resources to tell the fresh food access story, developing and managing our various database infrastructures, and working closely with our state-wide partners to ensure they have the tools needed to be successful in serving their communities, Gordon enjoys the many opportunities available for collaboration and creativity. In his free time, you will likely find him enjoying cooking with his wife, reading books or spinning vinyl at home or planning the next trek somewhere across the country to see The Avett Brothers perform.

Jessica Burnham

Hub Manager, Richland County

Jessica joined the FoodShare team in August 2022.  As the Richland County Hub Manager, she works closely with our Partner Sites and program participants to coordinate ordering and distribution of Fresh Food Boxes. She manages the ordering of produce from our supplier, Senn Brothers Produce, to ensure a healthy variety of fruits and vegetables are offered to participants in our Fresh Food Box and coordinates volunteers in the box packing process.  When she is not keeping busy with FoodShare, you can find her spending time with her children and grandchild.

John Cumper

NeighborShare Program Coordinator

John Cumper joined the FoodShare team in May of 2022. On most days, you’ll find him in the field visiting participants in the NeighborShare program, which partners those experiencing barriers to reliable transportation with volunteers from within their neighborhoods who are willing to deliver their fresh fruit and vegetable boxes. John is passionate about his role in “feeding a need” by expanding access to fresh, affordable produce to those in the Columbia area. In his former life, he served as an Air Force enlisted aviator on C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Kelly Duane

Director of Culinary Medicine

Kelly’s FoodShare journey started in Berkeley county in October 2023, where she supported operations for the newly-opened hub there. She joined the team in Columbia in January 2024 to launch our teaching kitchen and expand our Culinary Medicine program offerings to communities across the state. Prior to joining the FoodShare family, Kelly engaged partners across the Lowcountry as a nutrition educator. She also has extensive background in restaurant operations and management. Kelly is passionate about building community through food literacy. In her free time, you can find her gardening, hiking, or taking a road trip.

Kim Hollins

Veggie Rx Program Manager and Healthy Living Motivator

Kim Hollins joined the FoodShare team in August 2020 as the Program Coordinator for the Veggie Rx Program. She has significant experience coordinating programs focused on improving the quality of health for patients with chronic conditions. Kim works closely with physicians, healthcare practices and others in the community to ensure FoodShare’s Veggie Rx Program participants have access to healthy fruits and vegetables as they strive to improve their diet and health. She believes that each FoodShare Box is the right prescription for a better quality of life for each participant. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and spending time with her adult children and family.

Lilly Allen

Hub Manager, Richland County

Lilly joined the FoodShare team in January 2023. Graduating in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health from the University of South Carolina, her priority is to grow partner site locations in the Midlands to help better serve the community. Working closely with potential partner sites, she is excited to go into the community to bring knowledge and resources to all about FoodShare. When she is not keeping busy with FoodShare, you can find her enjoying the outdoors with her 4-legged companion, Gus.

Melissa Lewie, MBA

Business Director

Melissa joined the FoodShare team in August of 2020, bringing over 20 years of grant and management experience to the FoodShare table. Completing her MBA in 2013, Melissa’s focus is FoodShare’s bookkeeping and financial reporting, but she also enjoys working as FoodShare’s Human Resources contact. She considers herself a jack-of-all trades because she is always up for learning something new. Melissa believes we all can “feed a need” by lifting others up both physically and mentally to help achieve their goals. Melissa is an avid camper who enjoys nature.

Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, MA

Interim Executive Director

Omme started at FoodShare SC in February of 2021, to build FoodShare’s regional and national coalition participation, and provide policy direction for the organization. Omme works on building advocacy and energy around state-wide policies such as SNAP expansion and Healthy Bucks, assists regional Hubs to engage with their elected officials at all levels, and entered into the role of interim executive director in August of 2023. Omme has 15 years of community engagement work in food security, community media policy and programming, and an academic background in cultural studies and race.