FOOD MOXIE STAFF
Kiasha huling
Executive Director
A longtime Cedarbrook/East Mount Airy resident, Kiasha Huling joined the board of directors in February 2023. Kiasha is a social worker and nonprofit administrator. She has worked with communities and organizations in Philadelphia across the sectors of Public Health, Environmentalism, Community Engagement and Organizational Development. Kiasha is a graduate of Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Kiasha also serves as an environmental organizer for West and Southwest Philadelphia with the Clean Air Council. Her work also extends to advisory roles with PHMC HUP at Cedar Health Campus, Hunting Park Green, City of Philadelphia Department of Health Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Unit, University of Pennsylvania’s Injury Science Center, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Healthy Neighborhoods Advisory Committee and The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Water Table. Kiasha also serves as Vice Chair of UC Green, Philadelphia’s oldest and largest community greening nonprofit organization.
Kiasha’s commitments to community and mission are rooted in the advancement of equitable, inclusionary services and intervention that yield safer, greener, healthier communities. Practiced in the disciplines of humanistic design and community organizing, Kiasha values amplifying, addressing and adhering to the vision and goals of the people as a prerequisite to successful systems and entities.
KIRSTEN BERNAL
Operations Administrator
Kirsten is a mother of two, originally from New Jersey. She made a big leap of faith when she moved to the Germantown section of Philadelphia with her young children in 2006. Kirsten has an eclectic professional background, including time spent working in the field of culinary arts. Most notably, she has worked for Weavers Way Co-op for the past eighteen years and currently serves as the Membership Manager. In the Spring of 2022, she joined the team at Food Moxie to lend operational support. Kirsten has a BS in Early Childhood Education and believes in the power of education to transform people’s lives.
FOOD MOXIE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
C Timothy Branner II
Board President
Timothy “Tim” Branner is an accomplished management professional with thirty-plus years of experience in advancing diverse talent acquisition, equal employment, and compliance. He is currently the Associate Director of Affirmative Action Programs with Raytheon Technologies (RTX). In this role, Tim is responsible for providing direction for Raytheon’s national affirmative action objectives and related strategic initiatives, partnerships, and activities. He is also responsible for supporting the implementation of HR compliance programs.
Before joining the Raytheon Technologies Corporate staff, He served with United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”) for 14 years in progressively increasing roles supporting UTC – Climate, Controls & Security Systems, and the Otis Elevator Company’s EEO and HR Compliance functions.
He also worked for the INROADS organization, where he spent 15 years in leadership, serving in his final role as the Area Manager for the Western-Tristate & Canada area.
A recipient of various awards and recognition throughout his career for his involvement and participation in professional and community organizations. Including direct service as a member of the Board of Directors for the Urban League of Greater Hartford, a Saint Francis Hospital Foundation Board of Corporators, and a past member of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’s (Amtrak) Customer Advisory Committee (ACAC).
He is a recent past member of the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees and a past vice president of the South Florida Tuskegee Alumni Club. In addition to these positions, he has served as a volunteer alumni recruiter, past national co-chair of Tuskegee University’s Business & Industry Cluster, and the lead for United Technologies’ national recruiting relationship with the university.
A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Tim currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Dr. Lisa Russell Branner, a Philadelphia native and graduate of Tuskegee University and the Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine, and their youngest son, Clinton. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Tuskegee University.