About Full Bloom

Since 2004, Eva has worked to design, implement, and fund small, medium, and large-scale nonprofit programs. Eva started the National Incubator Farm Training Initiative through the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project; served as a FINI (now GusNIP) program officer at Wholesome Wave, supporting incentive programs at farmers markets across the US; and was the Assistant Director of Programs at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, administering federal nutrition programs and supporting Rhode Island’s statewide network of food pantries and meal sites. 

As a winner of the RI Foundation’s Carter Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Eva founded Hope’s Harvest in 2018 to mobilize volunteers to harvest and distribute surplus food from local farms to hunger relief agencies. Since then, Hope’s Harvest has recovered over 1 million pounds of fresh produce and is now a program of Farm Fresh RI.

Over the past 20 years, Eva has raised, administered, and reported on well over $3 million in funding from individual donors, business sponsorships, private foundations, and municipal, state, and federal grant programs. She has broad experience spearheading highly impactful communications strategies, annual giving campaigns, and special events such as fundraisers and conferences. 

Eva has received formal facilitation training from the Interaction Institute for Social Change and the Center for Whole Communities and believes deeply in the importance of community-based work that centers relationships, process, and results in equal measure. 

Eva holds an M.S. from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, is the former Vice Chair of the Rhode Island Food Policy Council , and currently sits on the board of Osamequin Farm and the Advisory Committee for the Relish Rhody 2.0 Food Strategy.