Tom Phillips – Executive Director

Otherwise known as “Farmer Tom” when he’s at one of our farm sites working, Tom comes from an executive background in the for-profit workplace.  

Since coming to StarkFresh as an AmeriCorps VISTA in 2014, his dedication to improving the lives of ALL who live in Stark County, regardless of their background, circumstances or status is matched only by the creative enthusiasm he brings to the StarkFresh team.

After living in Connecticut for more than half of his life, this New England transplant has been living in Canton, OH for nearly a decade.  

Tom is a father to five children and spends his spare time going on adventures with his fiancé, yard farming, playing board games and doing research on subjects he is passionate about.  

Teresa Kaminski – Program Director

A self-proclaimed “Hippy Dippy”, Teresa came to StarkFresh from a 20-year stint in the medical field.  

This microbiologist came to StarkFresh in 2015 with the drive to provide REAL medicine through healthy food consumption and is very much the needed Ying to Tom’s Yang.  

She handles all of the awesome programming that StarkFresh does and in her spare time, this wife and mother of two can be found hiking, zip lining or chilling outside her urban homestead in Canton, OH, watching her chickens at play.