Board of Directors
- Joy Shillingsburg, Chair
- Marion Holloway, Vice Chair
- Spencer Renfrow, Treasurer
- Freda Hall, Secretary
- Tenice Caudle
- Bonnie Mwanda
- Emily Baird, VISTA Member/WFCT Director of Operations
Food Advisory Team:
- Amy Brown
- Wilma Dunston
- Kevin Meese
- Mynn Paige
- Joy Shillingsburg
- Gwen Sneed
- Ann Van Cleave
Leadership Team for Community Gatherings:
- Joy Shillingsburg- Board Chair/Founder of Wake Forest Community Table
- Emily Baird- VISTA Member/Director of Operations Wake Forest Community Table
- Rev. David Griffin- Pastor of Wake Forest Christian Church
- Rev. Sarah Phelps- Pastor St. John’s Episcopal Church
- Rev. Enoch Holloway- Pastor of Friendship Chapel Baptist Church
- Dr. Marion Holloway- Retired teacher and librarian
- Rev. Larry Wilder- Pastor of Olive Branch Baptist Church
- Tenice Caudle- Community Member, weekly volunteer and member of Northeast Community Coalition
- Gwen Sneed- Community Member and chef for WF Community Table
- Roxanne Johnson- Retired School Psychologist
- Sarah Soleim- Manager of Community and Academic Learning at Wake Forest Museum/Wake Forest University
BIOGRAPHIES
Joy Shillingsburg
Joy is a lifelong educator who served as the Director of Youth and Outreach at St, John’s Episcopal Church in Wake Forest for more than a decade.
Prior to that, she spent 15 years as a classroom history teacher outside of Philadelphia and in the Wake County Public School System. Her commitment to teaching historical truths and how those truths have the power to liberate and transform lives and society has been a through line of her work.
Joy founded Wake Forest Community Table after building a meal distribution program with community partners that started in 2017. This thriving nonprofit has served more than 26,000 meals since 2020 and has connected diverse members of the community to each other through quarterly gatherings that explore the history, laws, personal stories and the systems that necessitate the twice weekly meal distribution.
Joy earned her master’s degree in history education at Villanova University and loves biking, hiking, traveling and podcasts almost as much as reading!
Emily Baird
Emily Baird is an AmeriCorps VISTA Food Security Specialist serving
as the Director of day-to-day operations for Wake Forest Community Table (WFCT) since Sept. 2023.
In this role, she is responsible for growing WFCT’s capacity and developing systems and relationships that will sustain the organization.
Emily is a 2023 graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in political science.
In 2022, Emily was a George Washington Carver intern at the World Food Prize Foundation for 10 months where she gained comprehensive skills in conference planning, administrative and logistical tasks, communications, and research.
Her involvement with the North Carolina Youth Institute and the Global Youth Institute further solidified her commitment to community engagement.
In her spare time, Emily teaches group fitness classes, indulges her love for hiking and wellness, and plays the oboe.