Board of Directors
As a co-op, our business is controlled by our owners, making us independent, autonomous and democratic. Each owner gets to vote for our board of directors, who in turn hire and oversee a general manager. From this standpoint, the co-op is run like a normal business, as it’s very difficult to operate a successful retail operation as a “collective”, with all “owners” being the boss. But owners vote for the board members who best reflect their values and vision for the store, and who then represent the members in the overall governance.
Tim Reese, Board President
(serving since 2012)
Tim has been involved in developing sustainable local food systems professionally for the past twenty years as a CSA farmer, co-op employee, educator and organizer. Since 2002 he has been the supervisor of Gale Woods, an educational farm in Minnetrista operated by Three Rivers Park District. He, and his wife Melinda, and two elementary school age children have been members of Lakewinds since moving to the area from South Minneapolis ten years ago. In his spare time, Tim plays fiddle and enjoys biking and cross-country skiing.
What I love about Lakewinds: I love Lakewinds because my purchases support my values and beliefs—call it positive consumerism. It’s also great to shop with my family in a place where we feel a sense of community and belonging.
Kari Broyles
(serving since 2015)
Kari is an attorney focusing her practice on commercial real estate and development. Currently, Kari is the Senior Associate General Counsel for a national healthy way of life company, where Kari focuses on developing healthy way of life destinations. Kari is passionate about travel, being outdoors, baking and spending time with her family. She and her husband live in Minnetonka with their two daughters.
Naomi Sadighi
(serving since 2016)
Naomi Sadighi is a public health professional focused on food access, food justice, nutrition, refugee/migration, and international women and children’s health. Naomi graduated with her Master’s in Public Health from University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Maternal and Child Health.
Prior to earning her degree, Naomi worked in international refugee law, health, resettlement, and worked to improve access to affordable social services for vulnerable populations. Naomi now works at Pillsbury United Communities as the Oak Park Center Director, largely aiming to reduce the food and healthcare access gap in North Minneapolis. In her spare time, Naomi is a doula, a youth empowerment community specialist, a dialogue facilitator, a cook, and an avid knitter
Gretchen Enninga
(serving since 2016)
Gretchen is a performance improvement and operational effectiveness professional for a national health services and innovation company. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
For her, Lakewinds has been a place where she can freely shop knowing that all the research, fact-checking and scrutinizing has been done. She trusts that the food and products for her, her family and home are not only good for them but are earth-friendly.
She credits her upbringing on a family farm in Southwest, Minnesota, where much of the food came from her family’s own land, for her hobbies of gardening and baking and appreciation for local, sustainable food. Gretchen lives in Eden Prairie with her husband, Simon and son.
Nancy Twidwell
(serving since 2016)
Nancy has experience in human resources and pastoral ministry. Presently serving as a spiritual director she focuses on integrating mind, body and spirit for healthy living. Nancy enjoys preparing quality food, traveling, gardening and spending time with friends and family. She is a wife, mother and grandmother. When she considers why she shops at Lakewinds: “I am grateful for the quality food that Lakewinds offers our community and the manner in which this commitment sustains the health of our bodies, local growers and the earth.”
Rahul Deep
(serving since 2016)
Bio Coming Soon
Anne Sheridan
(serving since 2017)
Anne has experience in the fields of education and sustainable agriculture. She currently works as a farm educator, connecting people with where their food comes from and inspiring stewardship of the natural world.
She has a degree in Natural Resource Management and a certificate in Ecological Horticulture. She has worked for several CSA operations and enjoys helping to bring healthy, responsibly grown food into people’s lives.
Anne is grateful that Lakewinds supports local farmers, invests in community initiatives and carries thoughtfully sourced products. She loves to garden and play outdoors and lives in Chanhassen with her husband and daughter.
Christina Meyer-Jax
(serving since 2017)
Christina Meyer-Jax, M.S., RDN is a nationally recognized food and performance nutrition expert, strategist, communications professional, and professor who loves bringing healthy eating and living into reality.
Christina’s motto is “good food matters and good food matters for everyone” and professional to move that mission forward.
She has worked with many food companies (from established to start-up) and most recently with the Google Food program as the Global Director of Food Choice Architecture and Nutrition.
What else fires Christina up? Nutrition Education! She is currently a faculty member at St. Catherine University in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Science. She was formally a faculty member at University of St. Thomas Department of Health and Human Performance.
Christina’s free time is spent trail running, cooking, buying funny t-shirts and keeping up with her perpetually in motion husband and two teenagers.
Ryan Reichenbach
(serving since 2017)
Bio Coming Soon
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