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About Caeli
Caeli recently graduated from Santa Clara University with a double major in Environmental Studies and Philosophy. She currently works at the San Jose Airport Environmental Services where she started and runs the composting and recycling program both in the office and in the Airport restaurants. She recently started working on their environmental compliance program where she is working on getting all of the airport’s hazardous waste area up to code. Ever since she was young, Caeli has been interested in protecting the planet. Between holding bake sales to buy rainforest land and starting a gardening club in high school, the environment has always been her passion. She even has a worm bin in her office at the airport! Caeli enjoys finding ways to make things herself, including personal care products, cosmetics, candles, and jewelry. In her free time, she loves to ride horses, spend time outdoors, garden, play with her two dogs, paint, and draw. In the future, She will be applying to UCSC’s Master Gardening program and hopefully moving to Santa Cruz full time and having a self sustaining garden and bee farm!
 

Caeli Perrelli (cperrelli@ccof.org)

Kathleen Manza
Kathleen’s enthusiasm for organic agriculture stems back to her childhood. As the daughter of a grocer she learned the art of fine foods and produce at a young age. Maintaining her love for food and concern for the environment, she later went on to study environmental economics at UCSC. In her studies she learned the importance of organic agriculture and sustainable food systems. While working at CCOF she hopes to expand her knowledge of organic agriculture and help the effort to spread the organic movement.  In her free time she enjoys adventuring outdoors, arts and crafts, and baking to cure her endless sweet tooth.
 

Kathleen Manza (kmanza@ccof.org)

About Christine
Christine first sprouted on the east coast. She quickly grew small wings and flew out to Denver, Colorado, where she lived and worked and became so interested in the natural environment that she started attending the University of Colorado at Boulder to pursue an Environmental Studies degree. As her wings grew larger, work and travels brought her over the Rocky Mountains to Seattle, Washington. She completed her degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Washington with a special interest in food systems. While in the Pacific Northwest she grew a fin, dove into the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean, and surfed her way down the coast to Santa Cruz, California, where she is currently one of three enthusiastic interns at CCOF. She is now starting to grow roots...

Along her path, Christine has worked and participated in many aspects of the farm-to-table mystique, all aimed at understanding organic agriculture and reality-based ways in which we, as a global society, can achieve sustainable food security and promote a healthy planet. She spent many years working in restaurants. She spent half a year working on organic farms and homesteads in New Zealand with Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF). She spent another half a year eating the “forbidden” street food of Mexico. Last year, Christine was the Assistant Garden Manager and Volunteer Coordinator at the MEarth Hilton Bialek Habitat in Carmel, where she was able to farm on a small scale and share garden knowledge with volunteers of all skill levels and backgrounds.
 

Christine Coltellaro (ccoltellaro@ccof.org)

CCOF Alumni Interns
Once a member of the CCOF family, always a member. We consider them a part of the CCOF Mycelium, hyphae. See some of our hyphae.