Meet Our Team!
Brittanee (She/Her) coordinates WANA's EFAP, TEFAP, and HPNAP's grant expenditure, grant contracts, and government compliance with United Way of NYC and Food Bank of NYC. Before WANA, she was a marketing outreach fellow at Brooklyn Hospital. There she assessed the community's need for WIC services and prepared monthly statistical reports about WIC to ensure the hospital's state compliance.
Eleana (She/Her) manages our therapeutic/social-emotional learning program for people who reside in the West Harlem community, who are currently receiving some kind of subsidy (including but not limited to SNAP or public housing). She meets with participants bi-weekly for assessment, goal setting, advocacy for options and services, evaluation, and re-setting of goals. Furthermore, she organizes monthly group training, education, and research about wellness, poverty, oppression, and skill-building such as public speaking, use of social media, and community organizing. Eleana operates Eleana Development Center, a counseling center, and holds a master's in counseling. She has four years of experience providing group and individual counseling in schools to children of all age groups, with over ten years of experience in school settings. And she is receiving a certificate in nonprofit management from Molloy College.
Since 1995, Shirrell (She/Her) has been responsible for coordinating on-site logistics for Saturday's street outreach/mobile soup kitchen and supporting on-site programmatic operations at Monday's client choice food pantry. Shirrell coordinates programmatic data, including attendance sheets, client service statistics, and menu logs. Shirrell is an activist against police brutality for the rights of those living with disabilities, and the redistribution of wealth in communities of color. In her advocacy work, she builds on her lived experiences from the 1980s navigating food pantries/SNAP, social security, and housing insecurity. She advocates for better housing, more benefits, and healthcare.
