Our Team

Joyce Campbell joined the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen as its Executive Director in June 2016. Prior to TASK, Joyce worked for more than 20 years at Catholic Charities of Trenton, where she was Associate Executive Director for External Affairs. A professional social worker, Joyce earned her MSW degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She has been a passionate advocate for policies and programs that break the cycle of poverty and has provided numerous workshops on poverty and how to advocate for solutions. Joyce is an active participant in the Anti-Poverty Network of NJ, a board member of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness and serves on various Mercer County human service-related committees. She was recognized for her work by Congressman Rush Holt on the floor of the House of Representatives during his presentation of a resolution for the 100th anniversary of Catholic Charities USA in December 2010. In March of 2016, NJ Assemblywoman Valerie Vanieri Huttle presented Joyce with a resolution for Women’s History Month, acknowledging her as a tireless anti-poverty advocate.

LaSalle King joined TASK in June 2023. He brings over 15 years of experience as a financial and administrative leader, serving as a strategic partner to executive leadership teams and decision-makers. LaSalle has a track record of cultivating productive relationships with key stakeholders, business leaders, and community partners. He holds an MBA from La Salle University. Previous employers include BB&T (now Truist Bank), American Training Center, Cigna and Lincoln Investment Planning.

Michelle Wexler joined TASK in 2021. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a J.D. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. After practicing law, Michelle moved into the nonprofit sector where she has worked with a variety of organizations specializing in fundraising, strategic planning, communications, marketing, and board and staff development. In addition, Michelle spent several years as adjunct lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania teaching writing, public speaking and persuasion. She supports a variety of local nonprofits and serves on the Board of Directors for the Pennsbury Society at Pennsbury Manor. Michelle is a member of the LEAD NJ 2024 cohort.

Paul Jensen joined TASK in 2011. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the food industry. Paul graduated from the New York Restaurant School with honors and is a Certified Professional Food Manager, Certified ServSafe Instructor and a Registered ServSafe Examination Proctor. He also holds a ServSafe Certification, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Certification and Certificate of HACCP Course Completion from the Seafood HACCP Alliance.

Frank Masters joined the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) in June 2023, bringing over a decade of comprehensive experience in project management, program evaluation, and information technology. With a solid foundation in leveraging technology to enhance strategic objectives, Frank has demonstrated a strong commitment to implementing data-driven decision-making processes within nonprofit agencies. Before joining TASK, he served as a consultant, focusing on enabling non-profits to optimize their operations through technological solutions. His early career was marked by a significant tenure at Mathematica Policy Research, where he engaged in a variety of roles across health and human services projects. This experience laid the groundwork for his transition to the nonprofit sector, initially through Autism New Jersey, before moving into consulting. Frank’s journey reflects a deep-seated desire to apply his expertise in service of missions that directly impact and improve community well-being.

Jaime Parker has worked at TASK in various capacities since 2001. She started as a Bonner AmeriCorps volunteer, tutoring in the Adult Education Program. From there, she has served as TASK’s Program Assistant, Development & Community Relations Associate, Development & Community Relations Coordinator, and Manager of Programs. Jaime holds a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Fine Arts (theatre concentration) from Rider University. She also holds a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University. Jaime created TASK’s performing arts program in 2009.  In 2015, she presented a TEDx Talk entitled, “Service is Connecting Your Passion to Someone Else’s Need.”

Marygrace Billek recently retired from the role of Director of Human Services for Mercer County, where she worked for twenty years. In her capacity with the County, she chaired and participated in over 30 boards and commissions, with responsibility for the provision of services to at-risk youth; homeless individuals and families; the elderly; and individuals with disabilities. For the last 10 years, Ms. Billek has worked closely with the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness to implement Housing First and Rapid Rehousing.

Francis E. Blanco currently serves as Deputy Director, Division on Women (DOW), Department of Children & Families, State of New Jersey. In this capacity, Ms. Blanco’s main role is to direct the development, promotion and expansion of women’s rights in the areas of empowerment and advancement through economic self-sufficiency; employment readiness and entrepreneurship; prevention of violence against women; and women’s civic and political participation in their communities. She serves as a liaison and collaborates with all other governmental departments and agencies to ensure integration of services, as well as develops strategic partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in support of DOW’s objectives.

Ms. Blanco completed her master’s degree in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University and has completed various fellowship programs, including the National Hispana Leadership Institute, Leadership New Jersey and Leadership America.

Leichena Bodie-Young is committed to building healthy relationships and modeling positive support to help the people she works with develop inner strength and personal ideals of success. As an experienced therapist in practice since 2002, Young has worked with a variety of populations in various treatment settings, including schools, an active-duty military clinic, and as a director of an adolescent partial care facility, with a commitment to children and young adults. She is also certified EMDR and DBT therapist.

Currently, she works as a counselor at Rutgers Preparatory School and works as a psychotherapist in a private practice at Comprehensive Mental Health Services in Pennington, N.J.

Ms. Bodie-Young received a B.A.S.W. from the University of Pittsburg and a M.S.W. from New York University.

Ana Maria Catanzaro is director of the Capital Health Institute for Urban Care and is responsible for new initiatives and partnerships to advance the health and well-being of Trenton residents. Dr. Catanzaro earned her BSN and MS in Nursing degree from LaSalle University. She earned her PhD in Religious Studies with a concentration in Spirituality and Healthcare Ethics at The Catholic University. She completed post-doctoral research and a Master of Health Science with a concentration in biostatistics, at Duke University. Before joining Capital Health, Dr. Catanzaro was Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Interim Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions at Thomas Edison State University.

Tracey Destribats is the owner of Eet Gud Bakery, which was established in 1928 in Hamilton Township.  Ms. Destribats was previously employed for many years as the Vice President of Community Banking at Yardville National Bank, where she began her extensive volunteer involvement with area charities. She is also a founding board member of I Believe in Pink, a NJ non-profit that assists breast cancer patients and their families.

Joe Devaney is recently retired after serving as a Partner at Ernst & Young for eleven years. Before that, he was Senior Vice President for Operations & Systems at AIG, Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers / IBM Consulting Services and Supervisor General Accounting BASF. Mr. Devaney is a CPA and certified in Production & Inventory Management. He has been involved in fundraising for a local chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and youth football coach.

Mr. Devaney holds a B.S. Accounting from Manhattan College and an M.B.A. from Rutgers.

Rupert Hall is the Founder and Executive Director of Hope for the City, a not-for-profit with the goal of providing strategies to improve self-esteem and accountability for residents in the urban context. More recently, he was the Servant Pastor of Turning Point United Methodist Church. Mr. Hall is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Rutgers University School of Law. He studied at the New Brunswick Theological, Wesley Theological and The Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminaries. In previous careers, he was a commercial banker and attorney practicing real estate and banking law. He currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Kingsbury Towers, an affordable and moderate-income housing development in the City of Trenton. He also serves on the Boards Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness and Mercer Street Friends. For the Greater New Jersey Conference of the United Methodist Church, Mr. Hall serves on the Board of Trustees, Commission on Archives and History and as Coordinator for the Conference Caucus of Black Methodists for Church Renewal. He and his wife of 44 years have three adult children and two grandsons.

Jack Hammell is a CPA with Mercadien. Mr. Hammell has a BA from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was the recipient of the Award for Academic Achievement. His practice areas are government services; nonprofit and human services organizations; and audit & assurance. Mr. Hammell is a resident of Hillsborough.

Pastora Karen Hernández-Granzen has passionately served as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, for over twenty-nine years. Together with Westminster and Nassau Presbyterian Churches the Trenton Microloan Collaborative, she helped create an initiative serving returning citizens and the formerly incarcerated. As a former member of the City of Trenton’s Latino Advisory Council, Pastora Hernandez-Granzen sought to improve the quality of their public school education. As a former commissioner of the City of Princeton’s Civil Rights Commission, she sought to ensure that issues negatively impacting residents were addressed. In 2017, Pastora Hernandez-Granzen was chosen as the inaugural Community Partner-in-Residence of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement at Princeton University to strengthen the intersection of the wider campus and community. Her other community engagements include serving as Co-Chair of United Mercer Interfaith Organization, Chaplain of the Bethany House of Hospitality: An Intentional Young Adult Community, and as a board member of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Eleanor V. Horne is a full-time community activist, engaged in organizations committed to improving education, expanding social justice, and enhancing communities. She is a trustee of The College of New Jersey, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the Outdoor Equity Alliance. In 2022, she stepped down from a 20-year role as Co-President and Trustee of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail Corporation. She is trustee-emeritus for the Princeton Area Community Foundation and Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.

In 2009, Ms. Horne retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) as Vice President of the ETS Social Investment Fund. Under her leadership, ETS created a strong community and philanthropic presence and developed active and enduring collaborations in the local community and with national organizations committed to increasing educational equity and access for women, people of color and those with limited financial means.

Ms. Horne received an honorary doctorate for a lifetime of public service from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2006. In 2008, the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities recognized her for her career commitment to Black Colleges. In 2016, Lead New Jersey recognized her as one of 30 Leaders for 30 Years.

Susan Jones is a Registered Dietitian who currently works as a Dietitian/Nutritionist at Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, NJ. Prior to starting her current employment in 2012, Susan was the Director of Agency Services and Programs for the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank for six years. Her responsibilities included serving as the liaison between the Food Bank and its sixty member agencies as well as developing, implementing and administering multiple programs including SNAP (Food Stamps) Outreach, Weekend Backpack Program (SHUP) and the Food Distribution and Nutrition Education program. She also worked briefly as a Wellness Consultant for NJ Manufacturers Insurance and dedicated seven years to working with patients with HIV and AIDS at Mount Carmel Guild.

Ms. Jones was appointed to the Governor’s Hunger Advisory Board and served from 2011-2016. She and her husband raised their family and have resided in Trenton for over 30 years. She has a B.S. in Nutritional Science from the University of Connecticut and completed her Dietetic Internship at the East Orange VA Medical Center in East Orange, NJ.

Sam Kanig is the Coordinator for the TCNJ Bonner Community Scholars Program. In that capacity, he has worked closely with TASK and oversees TCNJ’s student volunteers. Mr. Kanig earned his B.A. from Thomas Edison State University. He is very active in Trenton’s arts and culture community and is the founder of Casa Cultura. He previously lived in Chambersburg and now lives in Ewing.

Pamela Kelly is a career educator retired from the New Jersey public school system after 35 years where she held administrative roles including Special Education Supervisor, School Principal, and Director of Human Resources. She currently is an Adjunct Professor with Rider and Stockton Universities in their Teacher Preparation Programs. Pam served on the Hamilton Township Board of Education from 2013 to 2021. She has also held board positions for several other non-profit organizations and is a member of her church vestry.

Ms. Kelly began volunteering with TASK through her church in the early 1990s. Being a teacher at the time, she was able to volunteer weekly providing story times and craft activities for children during her summer break for multiple years. She had the honor of joining the TASK Board of Trustees in 2011.

Michael Morand is a Global Strategic Marketing Director at Johnson & Johnson, where he is responsible for leadership and development of next-generation pharmaceutical strategies and solutions. His prior experiences at Johnson & Johnson include Global Health Equity, US Gene Therapies Marketing, Channel Strategy and several operations management roles. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Morand served as a US Air Force Captain and Logistics Readiness Officer, where he led multiservice and multinational teams with overseas tours in the Far East and Middle East.

In addition to his role at Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Morand is also a local small business co-owner. He received his bachelor’s at UMass, master’s in economics at OU, M.B.A. at NYU Stern, graduate fellowship at MIT, and doctorate in healthcare administration at Temple.

James (Jim) Parker is the Founder and Owner of Riverview Studios, which provides broadcast and video production services globally. As a documentary filmmaker, Mr. Parker has been telling stories via his camera for 48 years throughout the world from his studio in Bordentown, NJ. In 2002, his travels led him to Uganda where he was inspired to create the Parker Mother & Child Foundation which provides scholarships and hope to girls in Uganda.

Mr. Parker is also Chair of the CNJN Board of Trustees, serves on the Board of Trustees of The Roebling Museum and is a past member of the New Jersey Policy Perspective Board.

Mr. Parker is proud to use his business and skills to help many of the area nonprofits. He is the 2009 recipient of the Burlington County Light of Hope Award from Catholic Charities. He was honored by New Jersey Citizen Action in 2017 for his activism at our state capital, recognized as Humanitarian of the Year by Beyond Expectations and is the 2019 recipient of the Geltzer Family Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr. Parker says his glass is always 7/8 full, usually with something delicious. After 48 years of producing documentary films, he says he still learns something new from every project.

Dr. Sadia Qazi is a board-certified internist with more than 19 years of successful experience in the field of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. She has a busy private practice in Hamilton, NJ, and serves a large population of individuals with special needs, primarily developmental disabilities, in Mercer County area. Dr. Qazi is also the Medical Director of the Muslim Center of Greater Princeton Clinic. In the past, she has held several leadership roles including the Advisory Board for Individuals with Special Needs at Horizon NJ Health; Medical Director for Care One Rehab and Assisted Living; and Medical Director for Embracing Hospice. Dr. Qazi has made numerous medical presentations in NJ and conducted several research projects in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fluent in English, Urdu, and Hindi.

Along with his sisters, Mike Rothwell is the co-owner of the Pennington Quality Market. He joined the family business in 1990, nine years after his father purchased the market. Before that, he was employed in the food industry with Procter and Gamble and the Mott’s USA Division of Cadbury Schweppes.

Throughout his career, Mr. Rothwell has been involved with a wide range of area charities including: Advancing Opportunities; the American Cancer Society; the Hopewell Valley YMCA; and the Breast Cancer Center at Capital Health. He currently serves as the Treasurer of the New Jersey Food Council, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Hopewell Township Health Department.

Mr. Rothwell holds a B.A. from Saint Joseph’s University in food marketing.

Steve Rubin is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in logistics and freight transportation and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of several companies in the container shipping and intermodal space. Between 2015 and 2019, Mr. Rubin served as CEO and President of ITS ConGlobal, North America’s largest intermodal terminal services support company, which he sold on behalf of the private equity firm Carlyle Group to AMP Capital in 2017. Prior to that role, Mr. Rubin was the CEO and President of Horizon Lines, the largest U.S.-based container shipping company serving domestic trade lanes, which he sold to Matson Lines (NYSE: MATX) and Pasha Group. After decades in transportation and large companies, Mr. Rubin pivoted and in 2021 co-founded an industrial automation start-up called Sojo Industries Inc, based in Bristol, PA, where he serves as Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Rubin has engaged in passion projects, including tutoring at TASK. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Martin Tuchman School of Management. He also led a collaborative effort at NJIT to develop COVID testing centers made from repurposed shipping containers, serving over 10,000 tests for New Jersey residents.

Mr. Rubin started his career with the accounting firm KPMG, where he earned his CPA license. He graduated from The University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and earned an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is married to Karen Rubin, a certified executive coach; they have three daughters.

Kathy Schroeher was employed for twenty-three years in a series of progressively responsible positions in the Law Department of Johnson & Johnson. Her last position was Associate General Counsel for global regulatory law and Chief Compliance Officer. She was a member of J&J’s pharmaceutical group operating committee and served on the management boards of several U.S. affiliates. Prior, Ms. Schroeher served as Assistant General Counsel in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as a policy adviser in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as an analyst with Common Cause and as a legislative assistant to members of the U.S House of Representatives and the House Select Committee on Intelligence.

She has served on the Board of Directors of a number of local nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen and Fisherman’s Mark, and is on the Advisory Council to the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Ms. Schroeher has been volunteering at TASK since 2009.

Ms. Schroeher holds a B.A. from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and a J.D. from The Catholic University of America.

Sajid Syed is President and CEO of Therios Healthcare, a pharmaceutical services startup company based in Princeton, NJ, and a partner in Hoopoe Capital, a high- wealth management and investment firm. An industry entrepreneur, he has built a career around successfully launching and selling pharmaceutical service companies (i.e. Acro Pharmaceutical Services, Sanovia, and InfuRx) that provided therapy management programs for high-cost injectables and injectable products for patients at home.

Mr. Syed is very actively involved in civic activities and serves on numerous non-profit boards including the Muslim Center of Greater Princeton, Greater Philadelphia Health Action, National Association of Specialty Pharmacies, the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness and was the Founder and President of the Medina Community Clinic.

Mr. Syed is a registered pharmacist and holds an M.S. specializing in pharmaceutical marketing from St. John’s University.

Martin Tuchman is Chairman and Chief Executive of The Tuchman Group, a firm with holdings in real estate, banking, and international shipping. Earlier in his career, his work at Railway Express Agency led to co-founding the company Interpool and later forming the company Trac Lease.

Mr. Tuchman currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure, LLC; Horizon Lines, Inc.; SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.; Yardville National Bank; The Bank of Princeton; and as Chairman of the Board of First Choice Bank. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and he and his work have been honored by organizations of the likes of Cisco and The Smithsonian Institute.

Active in Parkinson’s Disease philanthropy, and as Chairman of The Tuchman Foundation, he works closely with Parkinson’s organizations to secure NIH research grant approvals. He is also on the Board of the American Cancer Society of Mercer County.

KyuJung Whang has been serving as the Vice President for Facilities at Princeton University since January 2017. Prior to his appointment, he led Cornell University’s Division of Infrastructure, Properties and Planning which encompasses all the traditional facilities functions as well as Cornell Real Estate, the Office of Sustainability, and Transportation and Mail Services. He previously served as the Vice President for Facilities and Capital Planning at Rutgers University.

Whang has been a licensed architect and professional planner since graduating from Syracuse University in 1981 with a Bachelors of Architecture degree. He has extensive backgrounds in capital project management, facilities management and campus planning in the private and public sectors.

Whang recently concluded a six-year term as a board member and Secretary for the Princeton Community Housing Board of Trustees. He previously served as an advisory board member for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and both the New Jersey and New York State Board of Architecture. Additional non-profit board engagement includes serving as a Co-Chair of the Cornell University United Way campaign, and as a member of the Board of Directors for Challenge Workforce Solutions, an organization committed to creating pathways to employment for people with disabilities and other barriers in the Ithaca, NY area.

Kathy Wooley had a twenty-five-year diversified career with the State of New Jersey (Transportation, Environmental Protection, and the Office of Information Technology). She has extensive state and federal management experience in many areas, ranging from fiscal administration to motor pool operations to affirmative action/contract compliance.

In addition to being a long-time volunteer on the serving line at TASK, and a more recent volunteer tutor with the Adult Education Program, Ms. Wooley is extremely active at St. Raphael-Holy Angels Parish where she has served for many years as the Chair of the Social Concerns Committee. She is currently Treasurer of the Elderberry Senior Club and was a member of the Parish Pastoral Council. For many years, she facilitated an Alzheimer Association sponsored support group for family members of persons with Alzheimer Disease. She received the 2006 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Hamilton Township Knights of Columbus, the 2015 Geltzer Family Foundation’s Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2018 was one of ten New Jerseyans honored in the Jefferson Awards’ Community Pillar Award category.

Ms. Wooley holds a B.A. degree with honors in Political Science from Wellesley College.