Founder, Maria Finn was a contributor to Sunset Magazine where she wrote about lifestyle trends. She continues to write about sustainable food systems along with food gardening, wine and travel. She was a commercial fisherwoman in Alaska for several years, including crewing on an all female salmon seiner. She then spent winters traveling in Latin American where she learned to dance tango in Argentina and salsa in Cuba. She cooked on commercial fishing boats and today, her favorite place to feed people is under sail on the San Francisco Bay. She loves to tell stories for The Moth and forages wild mushrooms in the fall and seaweed in the spring. She produces food events for Stochastic Labs, an incubator and residency for artists, scientists and tech engineers in Berkeley. For more on her writing & storytelling visit www.mariafinn.com.
Maude grew up on the Sausalito waterfront, amongst the artists, hippies, dreamers and pirates. She attended the Art Institute of California and studied painting. Along with her art practice, she’s been a chef for decades now, outfitting boats for day trips to Angel Island, catering weddings, and working as a private chef. She loves traveling to explore dishes in culture in places like New Orleans and the Caribbean.
Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen is a longtime Bay area chef and food writer. She’s the author of seven books, most recently, A Little Taste of San Francisco, with recipes of iconic and favorite bay area dishes from cioppino to carnitas, and avocado toast to ballpark garlic fries. She’s also been a restaurant critic for the Bay Guardian, a weekly newspaper in San Francisco, and for San Francisco magazine. She is a baking maven, and has been an assistant chef at the Headlands Center for the Arts, an artists' residency program located in the Marin Headlands, and a production cook at the Marin Sun Farms Cafe in Pt Reyes Station. She has studied organic farming at UCSC and holds a certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Jamie Morf is a landscape architect by trade and a master baker by passion. She's been a resident at Green Gulch Zen Center where she studied Zen Buddhism and has been hosting tea ceremonies there for years.
Raylene Gorum is an artist based in Sausalito. She has a degree in Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and studied at the Ecole d'Architecture in Paris. She designed, owned and operated a popular singing bar in Soho, New York, Baby Grand. She’s worked her way around the world in restaurants and bar, picking up dishes, tips and techniques from Paris & London to Brazil and Bangkok.