The High Falls Food Co-op Board represents the interests of member-owners, assuring fiscal and strategic planning, oversight of management, policy development, and communication with members and the general public. Members elect directors to serve staggered three-year terms.

To contact the High Falls Food Co-op Board, please email board@highfallsfoodcoop.com.

We are always looking for new Board members! If you want to find out more about joining the Board, check out our Board Prospectus. If you're ready to apply, you can fill out a paper application, scan it and send it back to us, or fill out our online application.

The High Falls Food Co-op is committed to member involvement and transparency, so we regularly post our minutes for all to read. We also invite you to read our 2021 Annual Report.

Our Current Board of Directors

  • Three Year Term from April, 2021 through April, 2024

    Rose Anderson, co-op secretary, moved to the Rosendale area in 2018, after spending more than a decade in Brooklyn working for several human rights nonprofits. Rose presently directs the Protection Services program at Scholars at Risk, a relocation program for scholars facing risks due to their research, teaching, activism, or identity. Rose has an MA in human rights studies from Columbia, and an undergraduate degree from the Global College program of Long Island University.

    Rose’s love of food and community began when she worked for a food co-op in northern Minnesota many years ago. There, she was introduced to cooperative values and the importance of knowing and supporting local food systems and the people involved in them. Rose has been a member of several other co-ops in Minnesota and New York. In her free time, she is a committed home gardener, loves to cook, and tries to get outside as much as possible to explore the wonders of the Hudson Valley with her wife and small child.

    Rose is excited to lend her support to the mission and goals of the High Falls Food Co-op.

  • Three Year Term from April, 2021 through April, 2024

    Aditi Goswami was born and raised in India, and immigrated to this country in 1996. She holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta, initially working as a Business Planner in the retail industry. In 2009, Aditi founded Calcutta Kitchens, a gourmet Indian food company creating her own line of Indian simmer sauces, spices and condiments. Having started her business selling at local New York area farmers markets, Aditi's love for food, cooking, community and the bounty of the Hudson Valley drew her to this area, finally moving to Accord in 2019.

    She has also worked in the non profit sector advocating entrepreneurship, culinary training, food access and food equity. She envisions her future work to be in the above areas.

  • Second Three Year Term from April, 2022 through April, 2025

    One of our board co-Presidents, Jerrie received her accounting degree from San Jose State University in 1996, after working in the restaurant industry for 15 years. While obtaining her CPA license with a local firm, Jerrie had clients that ranged from technology start-ups, tire retailers, real estate developers to a family-owned propane delivery company. Moving to New York in 1999, she held positions as controller and operations director for a marketing research facility, a news video delivery company, an educational software start-up and finally as CFO for internet advertising start-up. Since retiring in 2010, Jerrie has been privileged to travel as a financial consultant for the non-profit organization Bpeace, helping women-owned businesses in conflict-affected countries. In Rwanda, she got to help the first ice cream store in the country, working with employee-owners to better understand their business by diving into the P&L and product pricing. She also been to El Salvador to assist with better reporting for the owner of a retail pastry chain and budgeting with a pita manufacturer.

    Jerrie started visiting this area and the store 10 years ago. Jerrie and her husband realized their dream of moving here three years ago. She’s excited to be working with the co-op, both for the opportunity to build community and to help improve an already great organization.

    Fun fact: the town that Jerrie grew up in northern California was half the size of High Falls.

  • Three Year Term from April, 2022 through April, 2025

    Ginny is one of the board’s co-Presidents, as well as a tech marketing professional and ceramic artist. She’s been fortunate to have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of established tech brands such as IBM and Microsoft as well as successful NYC tech startups like AppNexus and Sprinklr. Her work ranges from messaging, to executive communication, advertising and event production. Her labors of love are her ceramic work and spending time in her garden in New Paltz, where she splits her time with Brooklyn. She is also a marketing advisor for Cornell Technion Studio Startup students looking for feedback on their marketing approaches for their new technology business plans.

    Ginny’s interest in food co-ops started in the late 70s with the Putney Food Co-op in Vermont. In those days she simply coordinated the distribution of nuts, granola and other staples to her roommates and other cohorts in CT. More recently, she was delighted to find the High Falls Co-op was down the road from her New Paltz home and she’s been an enthusiastic and devoted shopper and member since. She enjoys extending her keenness of the Co-op with her children, who live nearby in Poughkeepsie and Queens and any friends who come to stay! She’s thrilled to support the Co-o’s mission to contribute to the local community she loves so much.

  • Appointed on 3/4/24. Up for member vote in April.

    High Falls resident David Del Principe is an animal rights activist, a social and food justice activist, and a strong supporter of sustainable agriculture. A retired university professor of Italian, David currently works in the Tasting Room at Whitecliff Vineyard in Gardiner. He is also an active volunteer with the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, and works, with his family, to run a small equine rescue animal farm in High Falls.

  • Second Three Year Term from April, 2022 through April, 2025

    Zack Brown, Treasurer of the HFFC Board, grew up in the Hudson Valley. His family helped start the Co-op 40 years ago and he has been in and out of the Co-op in all of its locations his whole life. After living out west for years, Zack moved back to the Hudson Valley to be closer to family and the amazing local food being grown and produced here. He works as a builder, caterer, and private chef. As a board member, Zack is excited to continue to support the vibrant local food scene that is surrounding this Valley.

  • Appointed on 3/4/24. Up for member vote in April.

    Michael Siegel hails from Warwarsing, where he and his wife Barbara live on a farm they formerly operated as Farm & Granary, an organic boutique farm. Among the many organizations whose boards he has sat on are the Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Rondout Valley Growers Association, the Kingston, Sullivan County Area, and Ellenville Farmers Markets. Michael is a practicing attorrney in Kingston, specializing in Real Estate and Business Law.

  • Voted in April, 2023

    In addition to being a board member, Jan is also the Marketing Manager at the Co-op. Her relationship with High Falls Food Co-op has seen her in a variety of roles. She’s been a member, a cashier, and a long time fan. Other favorite organizations she works for locally include the Bluestone Press, the Rosendale Theatre, and the Holistic Health Community.

    Her first co-op was the Cambridge Food Co-op in 1977. If she’d been living in the Hudson Valley then, it would have been the High Falls Food Co-op.

    Jan is a graphic designer by trade, but can often be found trying to spend as much time as possible as an amateur writer, painter, crocheter, actor, and gardener. She is most proud of her status as mother, grandmother, and pet parent.

  • Voted onto the Board April, 2023.

    Amie Worley arrived in the Hudson Valley in the early 2000’s, when lured here by endangered turtle landings. Amie connected with the High Falls Food Co-op before she even made her home here, and she has been an employee, a working member, a non-working member and a shopper. Food, food access, and connection to the land our food comes from are on Amie’s mind every time she makes a meal. She has been a CSA member for over 25 years. An active community volunteer, Amie was an organizer and wrestler of B.R.A.W.L. (broads regional arm wrestling league), and a volunteer with the DEC amphibian crossing project for a number of years, and is presently a member of the Rosendale Environmental Commission. A high school biology teacher in the Newburgh school district, Amie is a full time teacher, student, and activist.