Our Team

Ashley Page Bookhart

Director of Programs & Rural Outreach

Phone: 803-545-5606
Email: Ashley.Bookhart@uscmed.sc.edu

Ashley Page Bookhart joined the FoodShare team in October 2025 after previously working at USC’s Arnold School of Public Health on food access policy, system and environmental change work. As the Director of Programs and Rural Outreach, she leads the development of the Fresh Food Box program infrastructure, expand into rural areas and helps to execute the strategic plan. A life-long South Carolinian Ashley values being able to make a difference in her home state so that anyone regardless of income or zip code has access to healthy fresh food. When she is not at FoodShare, you can catch her cheering on her USC Lady Gamecocks basketball team, traveling with her husband or in her raised bed backyard garden.

Carrie Draper, MSW

Co-Founder and Evaluator

Email: DRAPER@mailbox.sc.edu

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?”

Gordon Schell, M.Ed.

Director of Marketing and Digital Strategies

Phone: 803-545-5604
Email: Gordon.Schell@uscmed.sc.edu

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, spinning vinyl at home or planning the next trek somewhere across the country to see The Avett Brothers perform.

Jacquie Russell

Participant Relations Assistant

Jacquie joined the FoodShare team in 2021 as a volunteer, supporting Richland Hub operations by contacting participants to remind them to order and pick up their Fresh Food Boxes, updating participant information in our database, and greeting everyone who comes into our office! She remembers when there were no fast food restaurants, televisions or computers, and children would all play outside until dark. In her life, she has owned a photo studio, worked in doctors’ offices and taught herself how to sew. She takes pride in wanting to continue to learn all she can to assets to FoodShare and the community.

Jasmine Perry

Bilingual Community Health Worker

Kelly Duane

Director of Culinary Medicine

Phone: 803-545-5602
Email: Kelly.Duane@uscmed.sc.edu

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

Phone: 803-545-5608
Email: Kimberley.Hollins@uscmed.sc.edu

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.

Latifah "LT" Muhammad

Assistant Hub Manager of Community Engagement

Phone: 803-545-5614
Email: Latifah.Muhammad@uscmed.sc.edu

Latifah Muhammad or LT as she is known, was a volunteer at FoodShare and then joined the FoodShare SC Team in April of 2025, as a Richland County Hub Manager with a focus on Community Outreach. She is  compassionate about her community and committed to collaborating with others to achieve and support community well-being for diverse communities. She believes that everyone has the right and should have the opportunity to eat fresh fruits and vegetables to achieve a healthier lifestyle.

Lilly Allen

Community Program Manager, Culinary Medicine

Phone: 803-545-5609
Email: Lilly.Allen@uscmed.sc.edu

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.

Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, MA

Executive Director

Phone: 803-545-5603
Email: Omme-Salma.Rahemtullah@uscmed.sc.edu

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.

Reggie Carter

Richland Hub Operations Manager

Rico Baker

Logistics Assistant

Rico joined the FoodShare team in 2025 after several years with Senn Brothers Produce. As our Logistics Coordinator, Rico delivers Fresh Food Boxes to Richland County partner sites, assists with NeighborShare program participant box delivery and SNAP payment collections when needed. He also keeps our vehicle fleet operating at top
performance by by ensuring a daily vehicle inspection occurs before we send our vehicles on the road. Rico is excited and dedicated to his position and say “it’s my pleasure and honor to be working with my FoodShare team and family.”

Wennie Stevenson

Participant Relations Assistant