Why This Matters

Our food system is unsustainable. It promotes an unhealthy lifestyle, exploits humans and other animals, contaminates the soil, rivers and oceans; and is destroying forests and other ecosystems. In order to make a positive difference, we have to rethink our relationship with food. What people eat can significantly impact many components of our unsustainable food system, toward positive transformation. When we collectively take action, we can be that catalyst to this transformation. Vegan Caribbean Kickstart is a helpful tool that can enable you to make better food choices and help build a movement, while celebrating our Caribbean and Caribbean-Latin American plant-based food culture.

Vegan Caribbean Kickstart is a program by Rethink Your Food Inc, a registered charitable NGO headquartered in Florida.

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Leadership Team

Liz Ross

Founding Director

Liz the Founder and Executive Director of Rethink Your Food Inc. She is also a recipe developer and created over 90 recipes for the Vegan Caribbean Kickstart project of Rethink Your Food, and has worked with catering/food service companies interested in adding plant-based options to their menu.

Liz worked in the real estate sector for 15 years for multinational companies – as Regional Manager at Newmark Knight Frank and as Research Analyst at Cushman and Wakefield. Prior to her real estate career, Liz worked as a law enforcement officer in the U.S., which made an impact on her life. After leaving law enforcement, Liz volunteered her time with nonprofit organizations that provide services to formerly incarcerated individuals to rebuild their lives, and provide scholarships to high school students who are the first in their family to attend college.

Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Liz is the first food justice advocate to appear on a major Caribbean television talk show (CNC3 TV) to discuss the ethics of leaving animals off of our plate.

Liz completed the regenerative farming and food systems farmer apprenticeship program at the University of California Santa Cruz, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, on their 30-acre organic farm and intentional community. She received her Bachelor in Science degree from James Madison University and studied permaculture at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. Liz received her plant-based nutrition certificate from Cornell University and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, and completed the plant-based professional culinary program at Rouxbe Culinary School.

Gwenna Hunter

Board Director

Gwenna is the Founding Director of Vegans of LA Food Bank, a grassroots organization that provides fresh, nutritious produce and plant-based meals to communities that experience challenges with access to healthy food. Through her Food-Aid program, Gwenna collaborates with other community organizations, including Hope on Union United University Church and with the University of Southern California, Office of Religious & Spiritual Life. Gwenna has over 12 years of experience working directly with the public in sales, recruiting, social media marketing, event planning and public speaking. She also has significant hands-on experience in grassroots organizing and outreach.

Gwenna was a news reporter for Jane Valez Mitchell’s Jane Unchained News Network. She is a contributing writer to “Vegan Voices: Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, and speaks about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle at events and on social media platforms.

Cheryl Roberts

Board Director

Cheryl manages a division of a Florida county Economic and Small Business Development Agency.

Cheryl holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. As an adjunct professor, Cheryl taught courses in African Diaspora Studies and in Critical Thinking at Florida International University for 6 years. Cheryl is one of the founding members of the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a non-partisan grass-roots organization dedicated to election reform, where she worked to ensure that voter registration materials and instructions were provided in Spanish and Haitian Creole, and on other projects that focused on fair elections in Florida. Cheryl also worked for the ACLU on their Voter Rights Restoration initiative and spearheaded the “Know Your Rights” project for middle school and high school youth. She has family roots in Bermuda.

Leslie de Montrichard, MD

Advisory Board

Dr. de Montrichard is a board-certified family physician for over 20 years and works at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. de Montrichard attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and received her undergraduate degree from Duke University. She is a women’s health advocate and a proponent of a plant-based holistic approach to health. Dr. de Montrichard was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago.

Financial Supporters

We truly appreciate our financial supporters, both individuals and foundations, who have contributed to help us continue to build a more compassionate world through conscientious eating. Below is a partial list of our financial supporters.

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