Who We Are
Mission, Vision, and Methods
Mission:
To love on everybody. Creating sustainable partnerships for greater resiliency by bringing together, promoting, and utilizing sustainable food resources through emergency outreach and education.
Vision:
To continue to evolve as the needs of our communities evolve
To break down systemic racism, and economic/income disparities within our communities through education, interaction, and advocacy.
To bring together cross cultural collaboration and dynamic relationships throughout our communities so that we heal and continue to grow together.
Methods:
We network with farmers, cultivate relationships with businesses, transportation agencies and resources, government agencies, health ambassadors, restaurants, chefs, nutritionalists, doctors, small businesses, (really, EVERYBODY) to make sure that all people have nutritional, sustainable food available according to their cultural and dietary needs.
We partner with community organizations to host no-contact, no questions asked distribution events for rapid turnaround farm to table.
We get food and other resources directly into the hands of individuals and families so it can spread quickly through communities and social networks regardless of race, etc.
We educate and promote cross cultural collaboration by working together, sharing not only recipes, storage and other food preservation techniques, but our whole life stories.
Our Goals
We are a dynamic organization. Our goals are constantly shifting to accommodate the current climate. Check back often to see updates. If you have a goal and think we can help, contact us here.
Our current goals::
To raise enough money for a truck to bring food to events, donate here
To help reach more communities that would benefit from what we do, if you are part of a community or know of a community that is not currently being served, click here
To engage members of every community in a meaningful way, if you have a recipe or a story to share, click here
To make sure that we turn no one away and our food gives never run out while promoting farms and commerce for future business, if you have a way to help, click here
Our future goals:
Our own land to harvest from while we showcase ways to farm and grow food small and large
A warehouse to hold food the night before gives so we can make sure it’s there and ready to go on time, decreasing wait times and traffic congestion for our events
A preservation kitchen for videos and demonstrations and a place for the community to come with dehydrators, freeze dryers, and canning equipment to make sure no food goes to waste
Our Story
In May 2020 as the COVID lockdown went into effect in Washington, our communities were impacted by the pandemic. Job loss increased at an unprecedented speed and food insecurity became an urgent need among many more of our residents. INSP was founded to help provide fresh, nutritional food and resources to those most in need. These already marginalized groups suffered greatly from shutdowns, and many people already living with food insecurity fell into crisis. In addition to food donations, INSP is creating sustainable community partnerships by bringing together, promoting and utilizing sustainable food resources through emergency outreach and education. As needs during the pandemic have evolved, so have the programs offered by INSP.
Our Board Members
Brandy Badger
Chair and Executive Director
When Covid Shut down our Town and cities I was introduced to an organization who 6 days after Covid rescued the first 40,000 of potatoes and he had asked me if I could Help! I quickly shared with my network to see if people were interested so many were interested that We couldn’t answer our phones for weeks. I quickly called those that left Voicemail and asked them to call their churches and food banks and have them call us. Soon we established a community willing to help and join hands with us to move bags of potatoes and quickly feed our community that was losing work from Covid-19 shutdowns. I’m a Wife and Mom of 5 Children. Run Badger Whole Farms, LLC and Ebadger, LLC Technology Gaming devices. Serial Entrepreneur.
Eric Badger
Vice-Chair and Executive Director of Technology
Family man, loving husband and father of five.
Accomplishments include: 25 years in software engineering. 12 years of engineering management, and 20 years at Microsoft. Innovator and inventor with more than 17 patents. Career highlights include: Building the prototype that started the Microsoft Voice Command product for Windows Mobile, leading the team that built the Windows Phone input stack, software keyboard, and text prediction system. Migrating that stack to Windows 10 as well as co-designing and co-implementing Microsoft Eye Control for Windows 10.
Donna Mah DeLaughter
Treasurer
Donna likes counting beans, doing what Brandy wants and hiding in Mexico when she needs a break.
Donna has been working in finance accounting for over 40 years, working in the public and private secot. Donna has volunteered and served on several non profit boards. In her spare time, Donna enjoys traveling, working puzzles, crocheting and spending time with her two sons and friends.
INSP Directors:
Carol Kwok
Director of Volunteers
Carol Kwok is a stay-at-home mom and rental property manager. She graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Before becoming a mom, she was an Oracle and Peoplesoft developer at AT&T Wireless. Carol has been living in the Puget Sound area for the past 32 years. She loves spending time with family and friends, eating, fishing, gardening, and volunteering. For INSP, Carol is in charge of public relations, promoting events on social media, finding and coordinating with volunteers, and delivering food to people.
May Deza Dominguez
Director and Filipino Community Liaison
May holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of the Philippines Visayas. She is a board member and director of the Filipino Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest, the marketing director of Prestige Staffing and Prosperous Services, a certified nursing assistant, a licensed insurance broker under GEC, and a designated broker/owner of MDP Realty.
Lousia Lee
Director of Privacy and Community Relations
Louisa is a software program manager with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She manages online marketing and leads a volunteer team of 50 to distribute food to local churches and charities including the Salvation Army Eastside Corps and the Bellevue Boy and Girls club.
Sara Cifuentes
Community Liaison- Community Outreach
Working with Latino Community and domestic Violence Survivors in SE King County (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland and Issaquah
She loves to work as an interpreter and advocate for families with special needs children. She graduated as an interpreter for special needs and Parent Partner at ARC King County.
Keira Wong
Director of Technology
Keira is currently an incoming freshman at the University of Washington studying Informatics with a focus in cybersecurity. Some of her specific interests are in game programming, cryptography, robotics, video editing, art/design, and AI/ML.
In her free time, she enjoys playing video games, programming, developing games, participating in hackathons, reading, or drawing!
Trevor Lane
Trevor C Lane, Ed.D. is a social scientist, certified researcher, and published associate professor. He is an award-winning statewide specialist in Community & Economic Development for Washington State University (WSU) Extension. Dr. Lane’s leadership links scholarly or scientific data with academic research that is critical to solving problems in tribal and rural communities especially impacting small farms, ranches, and communities. He is a subject matter expert in technology, agritourism, and small business ecosystems as evidenced in his work with broadband action teams or digital literacy programs in tribal and rural communities. Dr. Lane is working internationally and nationally on farm to table initiatives to improve food security and poverty. To achieve this, it will be critical to improving the food system by leveraging local decision makers or community leaders as well as the K-12 system for integrating greenhouses and precision agriculture technology supporting Future Farmers of America (FFA), 4-H program, Master Gardeners, granges, and more.
Dr. Lane's mantra is……....
Learn. Serve. Lead.