Staff & Board

Staff:

The Worker/Owners of Three Stone Hearth are blessed to work with a wonderful staff.

Joined our staff in 2007:

Phillip Lewis — Dishwashing & Kitchen Support

Phillip graduated in the Spring of 2009 from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco with a BA and an emphasis in 3-D Animation.  He enjoys editing sound clips together, designing T-shirts, and creating digital artwork.  While he enjoys working at Three Stone, he is actively seeking work in his field of animation.

Phil Lewis

Otto Thorsen — Beverage Preparation & Dishwashing Trainer

Otto Thorsen is a conceptual artist who recently earned his MFA from J.F. Kennedy University.  He also writes and performs music, recently producing his 7th CD: “On and On.”  Otto came to Berkeley by way of Tucson, Arizona (“Berkeley’s sister city in the desert”) and has devoted his life to creative living and creative thinking, surrounding himself with artists and musicians.

Joined our staff in 2008:

Mary Dee — Administration & Cashier

Mary Dee pulling products for the walk in store.

When Mary began volunteering in 2008 she connected immediately with TSH’s learn-by-doing approach to building community one person, one recipe, one meal at a time. When not ringing up sales or editing recipes for TSH, Mary, a longtime home educator, curriculum developer, and practitioner of hands-on, experiential learning, continues to counsel/mentor prospective and established homeschoolers, studies nutrition and holistic healing modalities, edits college term papers, tests and tweaks recipes, trains her rescue dog, and volunteers for causes dear to her heart.

Joined our staff in 2010:

Vicente Montoya — Jarring Czar

Vicente started volunteering at Three Stone in April of 2010, and has been our jarring captain since the fall of 2010. He enjoys working and learning from everyone who steps into the kitchen. He plans to get his graduate degree and teach in the future, and hopefully open his family restaurant in the bay, which would incorporate all he has learned about nutrient dense food into it.

Carlos Gonzalez — Dishwashing

Rogelio Gonzalez — Dishwashing & Kitchen Prep

Joined our staff in 2011:

Seth Peterson — Kitchen Supervisor

Seth Peterson is a Berkeley native and second generation urban farmer.  He received most of his culinary training in Mexico and Brazil, but has returned to the Bay Area to delve more deeply into food and farming.  After stints at local restaurants Eccolo, Corso, and Adagia, he came to Three Stone Hearth to learn about real, good food!

Megan Phinaih — Kitchen Manager

Linda Kalenburger–Kitchen Manager

Aster Tezare — Kitchen Prep Assistant

 Business Advisory Board:

The Worker/Owners of Three Stone Hearth recently formed a Business Advisory Board to help us create a long-range business plan.  We are very blessed to be helped by the following experienced experts in charting our course for the future:

Zenobia Barlow — Executive Director and co-founder of the Center for Ecoliteracy

Emmanuel Briand – Co-founder of iParadigms and regular customer of TSH

Dayle Cosway – Food and gardening entrepreneur, experienced business consultant, former apprentice at TSH

Dayle Cosway and Catherine Spanger listen to Porsche Combash

Ari Derfel — Co-founder of Back to Earth Catering and Gather Restaurant, Executive Director of Slow Money

Robert (Bob) Gerner — Co-founder of Westbrae Natural Foods and the Natural Grocery Company, business ally and customer of TSH

Roderick (Rod) Kiracofe – Author, long-term customer, initial investor in TSH

Janelle Orsi – Author, lawyer, co-director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, legal advisor to TSH

Kristina Sepetys – Retired economist, writer specializing in food and sustainability issues, business planning advisor to TSH

Dana Towsey – Experienced business analyst and financial advisor to TSH

** Complete bios coming soon! **