The High Falls Food Co-op Board represents the interests of member-owners, assuring fiscal and strategic planning, oversight of management, policy development, and communication with members and the general public. Members elect directors to serve staggered three-year terms.

To contact the High Falls Food Co-op Board, please email board@highfallsfood.coop.

We are always looking for new Board members! If you want to find out more about joining the Board, check out our Board Prospectus. If you're ready to apply, you can fill out a paper application, scan it and send it back to us, or fill out our online application.

The High Falls Food Co-op is committed to member involvement and transparency, so we regularly post our minutes for all to read. We also invite you to take a look at our Annual Reports from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 is coming soon!

Our Current Board of Directors

  • 3rd Three Year Term from April, 2025 through April, 2028

    One of our board co-Presidents, Jerrie received her accounting degree from San Jose State University in 1996, after working in the restaurant industry for 15 years. While obtaining her CPA license with a local firm, Jerrie had clients that ranged from technology start-ups, tire retailers, real estate developers to a family-owned propane delivery company. Moving to New York in 1999, she held positions as controller and operations director for a marketing research facility, a news video delivery company, an educational software start-up and finally as CFO for internet advertising start-up. Since retiring in 2010, Jerrie has been privileged to travel as a financial consultant for the non-profit organization Bpeace, helping women-owned businesses in conflict-affected countries. In Rwanda, she got to help the first ice cream store in the country, working with employee-owners to better understand their business by diving into the P&L and product pricing. She also been to El Salvador to assist with better reporting for the owner of a retail pastry chain and budgeting with a pita manufacturer.

    Jerrie started visiting this area and the store 10 years ago. Jerrie and her husband realized their dream of moving here three years ago. She’s excited to be working with the co-op, both for the opportunity to build community and to help improve an already great organization.

    Fun fact: the town that Jerrie grew up in northern California was half the size of High Falls.

  • 2nd Three -Year Term from April, 2025 through April, 2028

    Ginny is one of the board’s co-Presidents, as well as a tech marketing professional and ceramic artist. She’s been fortunate to have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of established tech brands such as IBM and Microsoft as well as successful NYC tech startups like AppNexus and Sprinklr. Her work ranges from messaging, to executive communication, advertising and event production. Her labors of love are her ceramic work and spending time in her garden in New Paltz, where she splits her time with Brooklyn. She is also a marketing advisor for Cornell Technion Studio Startup students looking for feedback on their marketing approaches for their new technology business plans.

    Ginny’s interest in food co-ops started in the late 70s with the Putney Food Co-op in Vermont. In those days she simply coordinated the distribution of nuts, granola and other staples to her roommates and other cohorts in CT. More recently, she was delighted to find the High Falls Co-op was down the road from her New Paltz home and she’s been an enthusiastic and devoted shopper and member since. She enjoys extending her keenness of the Co-op with her children, who live nearby in Poughkeepsie and Queens and any friends who come to stay! She’s thrilled to support the Co-o’s mission to contribute to the local community she loves so much.

  • Voted in April, 2024. Three Year term ends April, 2027.

    High Falls resident David Del Principe’s career has been as a university professor of Italian Studies. His teaching and scholarship have also been in the field of Critical Animal Studies, focusing on examining the relationship between human and nonhuman animals. David is an activist for food, social, and animal justice and a strong supporter of sustainable agriculture. He supports local, farm sanctuaries and works, with his family, to run an equine, rescue animal farm in High Falls. An avid cook, David currently works in the Tasting Room at Whitecliff Vineyard in Gardiner, NY.

  • Board Secretary

    1st Three-Year Term, April 2025 through April, 2028

    Based in Cottekill, NY, Karim is a father of two, video editor/producer and coop enthusiast. He has been involved with coops since being introduced to them in college, co-founding the Meerkat Media video production Coop, and serving as the head of sourcing for the Bushwick Food Coop. In his free time Karim enjoys painting, playing guitar, cooking and gardening.

  • 3rd Three -Year Term from April, 2025 through April, 2028

    Zack Brown, Treasurer of the HFFC Board, grew up in the Hudson Valley. His family helped start the Co-op 40 years ago and he has been in and out of the Co-op in all of its locations his whole life. After living out west for years, Zack moved back to the Hudson Valley to be closer to family and the amazing local food being grown and produced here. He works as a builder, caterer, and private chef. As a board member, Zack is excited to continue to support the vibrant local food scene that is surrounding this Valley.

  • Voted in April 20, 2024. Three Year term ends April, 2027.

    Michael Siegel hails from Warwarsing, where he and his wife Barbara live on a farm they formerly operated as Farm & Granary, an organic boutique farm. Among the many organizations whose boards he has sat on are the Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Rondout Valley Growers Association, the Kingston, Sullivan County Area, and Ellenville Farmers Markets. Michael is a practicing attorrney in Kingston, specializing in Real Estate and Business Law.

  • Board Member

    1st Three-Year Term, April 2026 through April, 2029

    Jane Dobson lives in High Falls and feels deeply connected to this community.  The Co-op’s commitment to supporting local businesses, expanding access to healthy food, and protecting the planet strongly aligns with her personal values.

    Professionally, she brings 30 years of legal and business experience, primarily as in-house counsel for a publicly traded water technology company addressing global water issues.  More recently, she practiced law on a part-time basis supporting a diverse range of clients in the renewable energy sector, as well as the consumer packaged goods sector in the food products space. 

    In addition, she is a local Forest Bathing guide. She provides Forest Bathing programs at local parks, Minnewaska State Park Preserve, and local eco-resorts.  

  • Voted in April, 2023. Three Year term ends April, 2026

    In addition to being a board member, Jan is also the Marketing Manager at the Co-op. Her relationship with High Falls Food Co-op has seen her in a variety of roles. She’s been a member, a cashier, and a long time fan. Other favorite organizations she works for locally include the Bluestone Press, the Rosendale Theatre, and the Holistic Health Community.

    Her first co-op was the Cambridge Food Co-op in 1977. If she’d been living in the Hudson Valley then, it would have been the High Falls Food Co-op.

    Jan is a graphic designer by trade, but can often be found trying to spend as much time as possible as an amateur writer, painter, crocheter, actor, and gardener. She is most proud of her status as mother, grandmother, and pet parent.

  • Voted onto the Board April, 2023. Three Year term ends April, 2026

    Amie Worley arrived in the Hudson Valley in the early 2000’s, when lured here by endangered turtle landings. Amie connected with the High Falls Food Co-op before she even made her home here, and she has been an employee, a working member, a non-working member and a shopper. Food, food access, and connection to the land our food comes from are on Amie’s mind every time she makes a meal. She has been a CSA member for over 25 years. An active community volunteer, Amie was an organizer and wrestler of B.R.A.W.L. (broads regional arm wrestling league), and a volunteer with the DEC amphibian crossing project for a number of years, and is presently a member of the Rosendale Environmental Commission. A high school biology teacher in the Newburgh school district, Amie is a full time teacher, student, and activist.