The SAME Team
Brad Reubendale (he/him) brad@soallmayeat.org
CEO of So All May Eat
Brad Allen Reubendale is the CEO of So All May Eat / SAME Café. His history includes Urban Peak, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), testifying at the Colorado Capitol on behalf of LGBTQ youth, and being a youth pastor.
Brad has a Bachelor in Psychology/Criminology from Missouri State University, a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary, and a graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from University of Colorado Denver, but the most important education he ever receives is when he shuts up and listens to other people's experiences.
Brad lives in in Denver with his husband Michael, kitten Kiki, and step-dog Bandit, where he happily walks, bikes, or buses everywhere.
Carrie Shores (she/her) carrie@samecafedenver.org
Executive Director of SAME Café Denver
Carrie brings many years of leadership expertise to her role as Executive Director of SAME Café Denver, with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco, seven years as Executive Chef at Table 6, five years in the nonprofit sector with Work Options, and two years in leadership at SAME Café Denver before being selected as ED.
In her free time, her other passions are gardening, hanging out with her dogs, making delicious meals at home with her wife, and continuing to live a life committed to sustainability.
Ann Cohen (she/her) ann@soallmayeat.org
Development Coordinator of So All May Eat
Ann Cohen is an Ignatian Volunteer Corps member serving at SAME Café. The Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) is a national, non-profit, Jesuit-outreach organization serving the needs of the poor through the volunteer work of experienced men and women aged 50 or better.
Ann’s IVC volunteer placement at SAME Café is as the Development Coordinator – helping Executive Director, Brad Reubendale in all areas of grant proposal writing and donor relations. Ann retired in 2016 from her nutrition faculty position at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She brings her over twenty years of experience with foundation and government funding for food and nutrition program development to her work at SAME Café.
Rori Quinonez (she/her) rori@samecafetoledo.org
Executive Director of SAME Café Toledo
Rori’s career has been people-focused, with the last 7 years focused on client interactions in start-ups. She believes in giving everyone the opportunity to be 100% themselves and is thrilled to be joining the SAME Café Toledo team not only because of the concept, but the opportunity to work at the intersection of her past and passions. Having served on the Advisory Board for SAME Café Toledo for the last 2 years, in addition to managing at Cafe Gratitude in Los Angeles, this role will allow her to connect what she’s learned in the start-up space with her appreciation for food-based community spaces.
Rori has a BA from San Diego State University and when she is not working, she is either reading, taking improv classes, or going on adventures with her wife and son. At the end of the day, Rori believes we're all just humans trying to make it through the day, and if she can make yours even 1% better, she’s going to do it.
Erik Helmstetter (he/him) erik@soallmayeat.org
Operations Coordinator of So All May Eat
Erik is our Operations Coordinator at So All May Eat. He began work with SAME as an intern in the last semester of his BSW program at Colorado State University, and was hired onto staff in the Summer of 2022. When not at work, Erik enjoys spending time with friends, family, and his cat Slim Jim.
Christina Kasper (she/her) christina@soallmayeat.org
National Growth Director of So All May Eat
Christina has worked in the “for impact” sector for decades through art, food, and social justice. She focuses on connecting people to causes that speak to their passions and that remind them of their value. Christina is particularly excited to share the SAME mission on a national level as it gives hope to so many people in so many spaces for so many reasons.
She is a beach girl at heart and the unabashedly proud mom of 3 remarkable sons (and the perfect dog, Stella). The daughter of an Italian mother, she loves to cook and shows her love through food. She can get lost in a good book and putting her hands in the dirt soothes her soul.
Christina has a bachelor’s in psychology from Miami University- which she uses daily but not Generally in the way she anticipated. Being still and listening has proved to be her best teacher.