About Full Bloom

Shannon Hickey

Administrative & Grants Operations Assistant

Shannon brings over seven years of experience in nonprofit operations, program leadership, and organizational development. Before joining Full Bloom Futures, she helped lead Hope’s Harvest, the hunger relief program of Farm Fresh Rhode Island. Over four years, she grew from AmeriCorps VISTA to Operations Manager and Program Director, all while developing systems for data and volunteer management, coordinating gleaning and distribution logistics for over 700,000 pounds of fresh produce, and cultivating partnerships with farms and hunger-relief agencies across Rhode Island.

At Full Bloom Futures, Shannon supports both clients and internal initiatives through grant development, fundraising strategy, organizational capacity building, and program management. Her experience guiding collaborative projects and improving operational systems informs a relationship-centered approach that strengthens organizational strategy and community impact.

Shannon is an alum of the Food Solutions New England Network Leadership Institute, where she deepened regional connections and training in facilitative leadership and systems-centered problem solving. Her FSNE project, Mapping Joy, highlights storytelling as a tool for collective impact. She also contributed to the Association of Gleaning Organizations’ planning team to host 2025’s International Symposium in Providence, RI.

Shannon holds a B.S. in Marketing with a concentration in Psychology from Bryant University.

Eva Agudelo

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 $8 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.