Staff Bios
Stephanie Corrado, Founder and Executive Director
Stephanie has a background in sustainability communications and has worked as a publicity consultant for environmental documentaries. Additionally, she enjoys volunteering her time planning events and rallies for non-profit organizations such as the Sierra Club, 350.org and Transition NYC. Stephanie earned her BS in Finance from Boston College and is currently pursuing a masters in Public Administration from Baruch College. Stephanie is a passionate advocate for environmental and agricultural issues and sees community development and engagement as an important step towards living more sustainably. As founder of Get Dirty NYC! Stephanie has enjoyed every opportunity to dig in and get dirty in urban farms and gardens across the city.
Stephanie has a background in sustainability communications and has worked as a publicity consultant for environmental documentaries. Additionally, she enjoys volunteering her time planning events and rallies for non-profit organizations such as the Sierra Club, 350.org and Transition NYC. Stephanie earned her BS in Finance from Boston College and is currently pursuing a masters in Public Administration from Baruch College. Stephanie is a passionate advocate for environmental and agricultural issues and sees community development and engagement as an important step towards living more sustainably. As founder of Get Dirty NYC! Stephanie has enjoyed every opportunity to dig in and get dirty in urban farms and gardens across the city.
stephanie@getdirtynyc.org
Gigi Chew, Founder and Chairwoman
Gigi has over seven years of experience as a Social Worker in NYC, working with high risk adults and children in settings such as shelters, inpatient psychiatric units, supportive housing facilities and schools. Along with a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Social Work, both from NYU, Gigi also has a certificate in Permaculture Design. She ran the website and newsletter Cooperative Evolution, which provided the NYC community with a comprehensive listing of events related to sustainability. Gigi strongly believes in the therapeutic benefits of nature, and is dedicated to restoring communities' access to meaningful relationships with nature within the urban environment.
Gigi has over seven years of experience as a Social Worker in NYC, working with high risk adults and children in settings such as shelters, inpatient psychiatric units, supportive housing facilities and schools. Along with a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Social Work, both from NYU, Gigi also has a certificate in Permaculture Design. She ran the website and newsletter Cooperative Evolution, which provided the NYC community with a comprehensive listing of events related to sustainability. Gigi strongly believes in the therapeutic benefits of nature, and is dedicated to restoring communities' access to meaningful relationships with nature within the urban environment.
gigi@getdirtynyc.org
Mo Moadeli, VP Strategy
Mo started his career in IBM in IT, project management, and consulting. After 10 years with IBM and IBM Research, and completing an IBM sponsored MBA program, Mo started his own management consulting company in 2002, serving small to large sized commercial companies and non-profits. Mo is also the Vice President and on the Board of Directors of WE MOVE, an international organization dedicated to movement disorders. He has lived in NYC since 1999 and is active in various sustainability and green thinking organizations.
Mo started his career in IBM in IT, project management, and consulting. After 10 years with IBM and IBM Research, and completing an IBM sponsored MBA program, Mo started his own management consulting company in 2002, serving small to large sized commercial companies and non-profits. Mo is also the Vice President and on the Board of Directors of WE MOVE, an international organization dedicated to movement disorders. He has lived in NYC since 1999 and is active in various sustainability and green thinking organizations.
mo@getdirtynyc.org
Jason Lindy, General Manager
Jason Lindy is a student of New York University. Concentrating in Urban Agriculture and Social Networks as a Means to Production. Over the past few years he has volunteered at a variety of New York City's urban farms and studied their different forms and functions within the urban context. Jason Lindy is a major organizer for the sustainability movement at NYU. He has extensive experience in events management and outreach and has organized events ranging from Earth Day art celebrations with Andrew W.K, to private parties at the top of the Thompson Hotel, to festivals, to activist rallies and anti-sex-slavery pop-ups. Jason believes that there needs to be a fundamental change in our food systems and that, by bringing together these communities, we have a chance to do just that.
jason@getdirtynyc.org
Janna Passuntino, Graphic Designer/Illustrator
Janna has long experience with print media in advertising, marketing and publishing. She is a graduate of Ringling School of Art with a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration. Janna currently freelances with an emphasis on organizations that promote sustainability, especially those that foster healthy eating and less reliance on the products of factory farms. She hopes to enlighten more people about the deficiencies of the agribusiness model which alienates us from our food source: Mother Earth. Janna believes Get Dirty NYC! is a dynamic tool to begin reconnecting New Yorkers to nature. She also makes a mean Mud Pie.
janna@getdirtynyc.org
Eric Brelsford, Web Developer Volunteer
Eric is a programmer and amateur cartographer. He works on a number of projects in New York City that deal with urban agriculture and community-driven space. One of these is Farming Concrete, a research project that works with community gardeners (and beyond) to help determine how much food is being grown in NYC. Another is 596 Acres, which makes the city's data regarding publicly owned vacant space in Brooklyn more accessible and helps groups that want to use that land talk to the city to get access. He likes using the internet as a tool for community organizing and making things happen in the real world, and this is what excites him about working with Get Dirty NYC!
eric@getdirtynyc.org
GDNYC! ALUMNI
Farm Outreach Intern 2011-2012
Ariel Garfinkel, Resident Farmer
Resident Farmer Intern 2011
Resident Farmer Intern 2011
Morgan Cooley
Farm Outreach Intern 2011
Jesse Lansner
Web Developer volunteer 2011
Becca Chelton
Intern 2012