Staff – Obsolete

Annie is a west coast native, chef-instructor and entrepreneur. She grew up in coastal Oregon and began cooking from a young age, expressing her love for family and friends through food. After earning her journalism degree in Oregon she served three years in the US Air Force. She was deployed six months in Mogadishu, Somalia, where she witnessed the effects of famine, malnutrition and severe food instability up close. She completed her Culinary Arts degree in Vermont and trained at fine establishments in Tokyo, Puerto Rico, Miami and Boston. She moved back to the North Bay area where she started her family and a successful restaurant. Annie began volunteering at Ceres Community Project in 2019 and immediately fell in love with its mission of empowerment and compassion, life-saving nutrition through healing foods, and education, particularly youth education and mentorship. She has been grateful to contribute to and participate in an organization that impacts lives in such a kind, positive and meaningful way, and is overjoyed to bring this mission to her beloved PNW.

When not at work, Annie enjoys travel, time with friends and family, hiking, yoga, baking at home and building her extensive book collection.

Kelly Celli, Development Director/Co-Founder

Kelly is a visionary whose passion is to create health and happiness through education, entertainment, and fundraising. She has over 20 years experience in event management and production with many non-profits such as The Humane Society, Guide Dogs for the Blind, To Celebrate Life, and Shriners Hospital to name a few. Her expertise lies in identifying a need, recruiting the resources and support, to then fill that need.

Kelly takes great pride in engaging with and bringing people from all walks of life together for a common cause and raising awareness around various issues. After losing several close family members to cancer and heart disease, she has directed her focus to raising awareness around the food as medicine movement with her dear friend Annie through the Snohomish Healing Project here in Snohomish County.

In her spare time, Kelly enjoys cooking, gardening, reading and going for walks.