Board meetings are monthly and open to all members. We email a link to the minutes after each meeting; we encourage members to read them for awareness of the issues central to our operation and opportunities to get involved.
Carrie Marker, Chairperson
Carrie Marker has lived in the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington for 7 years. She been a lifer on community involvement wherever she lived (New Jersey to Moscow). She’s lived within 24 miles of Windsor Terrace-Kensington all her entire life. She has an LMSW and works as a career counselor. One of the first moves she made after moving into the neighborhood was joining the coop. “I love the coop and the community it’s become!”
Scott Rohrer, Secretary
I became a member of the coop in January 2022, shortly after I moved to NYC from Ohio at the end of 2021. I am a software engineer at Biograph Health, a small and growing preventative health startup company. Outside of work I am on the advisory board of Wikitongues, a language revitalization nonprofit organization where I have been doing volunteer tech work for seven years. My passions are cooking and eating, but I can also be found running in Prospect Park, often on group runs with Prospect Park Track Club. The coop is my favorite part of living in Windsor Terrace and I am honored to give back to this community by serving on the board.
Rafay Khalid, Treasurer
Lily Baum Pollans
I am a Boston native and relatively recent Windsor Terrace transplant. I am a professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, and a proud member of my union. I study urban infrastructure and sustainability, garbage particularly. Now that my kids are old enough that I can catch my breath, I hope to become a more active part of beautiful community efforts like the WTFC. Also, I love cooking, sharing, and opting out of capitalism whenever possible!
Quinn Cushing
Quinn has lived in or near Windsor Terrace for the last 28 years since moving to New York City from Boston. He is an early member of the WTFC and still remembers the excitement of having a coop in the neighborhood when picking up the membership form at the Juice Box. Quinn was a member of the Cambridge Coop for most of his time in Boston from a dusty downstairs (but very cool) space for working members only with bulk miso to a street level market space open to the public. Had meant to join the Park Slope Coop when arriving in Brooklyn, but never got past the rather intimidating orientation session. He is the director of database services for CASES, a non-profit that provides alternatives to jail and prison as well as mental health services and support to New York City residents. Football lettuce, seeded sourdough, nuts, Dragonfly eggs, and Maine Grain oats are his most regular purchases at the coop. He is a big fan of the “come and get it while it lasts” emails from the coop.
Jack O’Connell
Jack and his wife Gretchen Hartman have raised their two children and lived in their Seeley Street home since 1985. He is the Founder of and the first Chair of the coop. He has served on the Board of Trustees of North Shore LIJ Health System, Media in the Public Interest, Coalition to Save the Catskills, the NYS Coalition for the Homeless and as Chairman of the Empire Justice Center of New York. He looks forward to working with this new Board to help the Coop continue its growth in serving the community.
Lisa Steves
Hi there! I grew up in New England, but at the earliest opportunity I crossed the pond to work on a friend’s family farm on the west coast of Ireland. When I returned to the States, I lived in beautiful Willimantic, CT, in the heart of what was historically Connecticut’s agricultural area, where I managed a vegetarian restaurant and got involved with the Willimantic Food Co-op. A friend invited me to visit them in NYC… that was 36 years ago, and I’m still here! I lived in the East Village for 25 years, where I raised my two boys, managed two hippie cafes, and frequented the 4th Street Food Co-op before I moved to our own lovely neighborhood 11 years ago. I joined the WTFC in 2017 and became a manager in May 2024. I currently work at NYU, volunteer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and spend my free time in Prospect Park communing with the trees!