Sunflower Bakery is governed by an experienced and dedicated Board of Directors. Our Board of Directors is actively involved in our work. An Acceptance, Review and Dismissal Committee, comprised of disability and food industry professionals, reviews applicants for the employment-track programs. And, our Advisory Committee members provide guidance and advice in their particular areas of expertise. Café Sunflower & Bakery LLC has its own caring and knowledgeable Board that is responsible to the Sunflower Bakery Board of Directors.
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Scott Reiter
Chair
Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
Philip Mantua
Vice Chair
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sandy Spring Bancorp
Steve Jacobson
Treasurer
Partner, West & Feinberg, PC
Elissa Goldfarb
Secretary
Vice President, Goldfarb & Associates
Cathy Bernard
President, HCM Corporation
Gwen Crane
Senior Manager, Raffa-Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group
Shai Fierst
Partner, Fierst & Fink, P.C. and Special Counsel, Montgomery County Office of the County Attorney, Department of HHS Division
Samuel Kaplan
Business Executive
President, Jewish Community Relations Council
Jennie Kuperstein
President, Jenniek PR
Dina Leener
Past President, Sunflower Bakery
Community Advocate
Sara Portman Milner
Ex-Officio
Co-founder & Director of Student Services, Sunflower Bakery
Orlee Panitch
Emergency Medicine Physician
Sari Raskin
Governance Chair
VP, Grants and Community Leadership, Community Foundation for Northern Virginia
Sarah Shick
Program Chair
Executive Assistant, Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation
Laurie Wexler
Past Executive Director, Past President & Co-founder
Ex-officio
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Eva Cowen
Café Sunflower Training Consultant, Disability Mentor/Consultant for Foundation for Jewish Camp, and facilitator for Anti-Defamation League
Deborah Fisher, Psy.D.
former Deputy Director of the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
Meredith Gramlich
Senior Research Associate, TransCen, Inc.
Michele Landa
retired teacher from Montgomery County Public Schools and the parent of a graduate of Sunflower’s Pastry Arts Training Program
Gayle Miller
retired special education teacher from Montgomery County Public Schools and owner of tutoring practice, Insights Ed.
Nicole Shahraky, social worker who interned at Sunflower Bakery and is now the Campus Ministry Coordinator at Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, MD
Heather Strauss
Behavior Support Teacher with Montgomery County Public Schools
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Rabbi Nissan Antine, Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah, Potomac, MD
Stella Cawley Kouros, Stella’s Bakery, Rockville, MD and Sunflower Employer Partner
Neil Neufeld, Vice President of Operations, Revolution Foods
Jason Salamon, Vice President of Human Resources, Edgewood and Vantage Management