Nourishing COMMUNITY
PROVIDING Entrepreneur Amber Driscoll is the development manager for ExtraFood, a Marin nonprofit that gathers up excess food from over 250 grocery stores, hospitals, schools and office parks, and redistributes it to those in need.
BY KARY HESS
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BOHÈME 2020 HEALTH
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mber Driscoll has a knack for business and a love of food. She emerged from years of fundraising work to open two North Bay restaurants— Speakeasy in Petaluma and Fog’s Kitchen in Inverness—and The Big Easy, a music venue in Petaluma, as well as the Opera House Collective, a retail collective of almost 100 artists and makers.
“I was working in nonprofit fundraising, which was my profession for a number of years, but had dreamed about opening a restaurant,” Driscoll says. “I have an MBA from UC Irvine and had wanted to make one of my many business ideas come to life for a long time. Eventually when the perfect little space became available, in the heart of downtown in Helen Putnam Plaza, I opened Speakeasy along with my business partner Roger Tschann.” »»
Photo courtesy of ExtraFood
How ExtraFood redistributes food to those in need
