Siddhartha Sanchez, Executive Director

Milagros de Hoz, Director of Policy and Strategy

Milagros (“Mili”) is the Director of Policy and Strategy at MOFP. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has built a dynamic career in New York City since moving across the continent 10 years ago—bringing a global perspective to advancing a connected, innovative, and environmentally sustainable food system.

In her role, Milagros leads the design and implementation of citywide food policy initiatives, coordinating across agencies and stakeholders to drive progress on food and climate, public health, regional food systems, and nutrition equity. She manages a growing team, builds durable partnerships, and ensures policies are grounded in research and impact.

With a strong foundation in science and systems thinking, and experience across roles and disciplines, she cares deeply about tradeoffs, long-term outcomes, and designing policies and programs that are built to last.

Andrea Sharkey, Chief of Staff

Andrea Sharkey is the Chief of Staff at MOFP. In this role, Andrea oversees the administration and external relations of the office. She supports the office in its mission to advance the City’s efforts to increase food and nutrition security, promote access to healthy foods, and support economic opportunity and environmental sustainability in the food system. Throughout her career, Andrea has developed expertise in evidence-based nutrition policies that address the food environment to reduce chronic disease rates, such as heart disease and diabetes, while promoting health equity.

Andrea has an MPH from New York University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Dana Bourne, Deputy Director of Food Programs Innovation and Sustainability

Dana works with agencies across the city to advance NYC's good food purchasing initiative, elevating procurement as a pathway to improve human and planetary health. Dana's passion for food system transformation sparked while working on farms in New York's Hudson Valley; she has since worked at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and GrowNYC connecting New Yorkers of all ages to the joy of growing food, and in the private sector for Stonyfield Organic leading sustainability initiatives focused on climate impact and soil health. Dana holds an M.S. in Agriculture, Food and Environment from Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy and is pursuing her NYC Master Composter Certificate to keep her hands dirty.

Kelsey Chan, Communications Advisor

Kelsey amplifies MOFP's efforts to advance a more equitable, sustainable, and healthy food system. Leveraging a background in public affairs and relations, Kelsey works to drive awareness and engagement in New York City's mission to promote access to and consumption of healthy foods. Kelsey earned her bachelor's degree in environmental and sustainability sciences at Cornell University, where she worked at student-run Anabel's Grocery to expand food justice on campus.

Lauren Drumgold, Policy Advisor

Lauren leads efforts at the intersection of food access and health, including contributing to the city’s chronic disease prevention strategy, focusing on local and federal safety net initiatives, and tracking federal policy developments. Lauren led in developing MOFP’s research agenda outlining food affordability and access priorities and works to enhance data transparency of the city’s key food metrics for the office’s forthcoming NYC Food Dashboard. Raised in Harlem, New York City, Lauren's commitment to addressing health inequities runs deep. During her time as a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow at the Congressional Hunger Center, she led projects on urban agriculture and SNAP policy. In 2022, Lauren earned her MPH from Washington University in St. Louis, further strengthening her contributions to improving the health of all New Yorkers.

Sierra Hollowell, Senior Policy Analyst

Sierra conducts research and data analysis, supports the implementation of the Food Education Roadmap, generates climate-related policy briefings, and monitors legislative affairs relating to New York City food policy. She recently earned her bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Columbia University, where she served as the president of Columbia Vegan Society as well as the Director of Alternative Proteins at Columbia Effective Altruism. Sierra brings experience from the nonprofit sector, where she assessed the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets’ enforcement of state health regulations applicable to NYC small animal and poultry slaughterhouses. Originally from Dothan, the eighth largest city in Alabama, as well as the notably self-proclaimed “Peanut Capital of the World,” she now resides in Bed-Stuy.

Ora Kemp, Senior Policy Advisor

Ora serves as Senior Policy Advisor at MOFP. A Navy brat, she was raised by her Bronx-born mother and rural Alabama bred father, blending a warm southern charm and a quick NYC wit. Ora is a food sovereignty and systems strategist with over 20 years of experience advancing equity-centered solutions amplified through the adoption of practical public policy. With extensive experience across the food security network, community-based programming, and public health research to advance equitable food policies and dismantle entrenched injustices in the food system, Kemp is anchored in the belief that food is a fundamental human right. She builds collective power and fosters cross-sector collaboration to transform systems, policy, and practice to that ensure every person can access nourishing, culturally rooted, sustainably sourced food with dignity. She combines academic rigor with on-the-ground engagement to shape transformative strategies that build healthier neighborhoods and more resilient food systems for all communities. Kemp holds a bachelor's degree in nutrition and food science and a Master of Public Health and is pursuing a DrPH in Food Systems with a research focus on equitable food policies and the morality of hunger.