Meet the SFS 2020 Board Candidates
Earlier this year, two board members, David George Gordon and Madeline Finch, resigned due to other commitments. In compliance with Chapter bylaws, the Slow Food Seattle board’s nominating committee appointed Marie Monte Fiore and Gabrielle Skladman to fill the open seats.
Marie and Gabby submitted online questionnaires, were interviewed by the committee and approved unanimously by the board. Both candidates have valuable skills, experience and ideas to contribute to the organization, and we are fortunate and excited to have them on the board.
Members attending the Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 3, 2019 will have the opportunity to meet Marie and Gabby and vote to approve the action.
Learn a little about them below:
Marie Monte Fiore
Marie is a marketing and public relations professional who has represented dozens of restaurants, wineries, breweries, farms and hotels to promote agritourism, support small farmers, encourage biodiversity and protect the environment. She has been a member of Slow Food for over a decade.
Passionate about food culture, she and her husband, David, have traveled the world to learn what they can from the globe’s gardens, barns, kitchens and grandmas. In her free time, Marie can be found digging in the dirt and making a mess in the kitchen. She’s an avid mushroom hunter, beach comber and shellfish forager who spends her weekends on Whidbey Island.
Gabrielle Skladman
Gabby is the child and grandchild of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, which means that mushroom foraging, never-throwing-anything-away, and homemade, scratch-made eating is in her DNA. She took a brief departure from this lifestyle in college, sustaining her late-night study habits with cereal and peanut butter—the salty/sweet processed kind. After moving to Seattle to take a job in tech, she found her way back to health through slow food—local, seasonal, organic, nutrient dense, minimally processed foods, grown or raised by passionate farmers at her local farmers market. Today you’ll find her looking for chanterelles in fall, u-picking strawberries in the summer, and…you’ll probably still find her spooning peanut butter from time to time—but the chunky, organic kind you grind yourself.
Gabby loves the strong sense of community among Slow Food members and their overwhelming desire to share, learn, and grow together. She looks forward to strengthening the community further through volunteer programming.