Board of Directors
MaryAlecia Briggs
President
A West Coast transplant, MaryAlecia lives in Catonsville with her spouse and child. She works in humanitarian assistance for an international development organization based in Maryland. She previously worked for an elected official in Oregon and the Metropolitan Public Defender's office where she was able to follow her passion for advocating for the undeserved and disenfranchised. MaryAlecia is an avid gardener with a focus on culinary herbs and native plants. She enjoys walking long distances, cooking from scratch, foraging and fermentation.
Heather Duong
Vice President & Marketing
A member of the COOP since 2016, Heather loves supporting local farmers and vendors almost as much as she enjoys eating their hard-earned labors. She loves leveraging her background in strategic communications and public relations to highlight the many great activities happening at the market. She is obsessed with gardening and enjoys cooking, reading, hiking, and biking. She resides in Ellicott City with her husband, two teenage boys, and young daughter.
Brian Livingston
Treasurer
Brian grew up in Bay City, Michigan and has lived in Catonsville since 2013. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and currently works in public health. Brian has experience as a treasurer for a professional society and has previously served as a financial auditor and volunteer for the Catonsville Co-op Market. He loves being a part of the Co-op and supporting community events. He enjoys running, swimming, obsessing over music, and chasing around his two young children.
Kirsten Merryman
Secretary
A longtime Catonsville resident, Kirsten has joined her husband in the ongoing crusade to live sustainably, clutter the earth with as little trash and needless items as possible, and fund local businesses. She enjoys helping maintain their new garden full of native plants and learning new ways to thrive as a plant-based eater. She's deep into a learning season about exercise and nutrition and will talk anyone's ear off about food and weight lifting. Her other passion involves traveling to visit her two kids living on opposite coasts from each other and visiting Europe as often as she can.
Heather Keating
Non-Market Day Volunteer Coordinator, & Market Liaison
Heather has been working in the health care field for over 20 years and has served on the Boards of the Maryland Association of Medical Staff Services, National Association of Medical Staff Services, and the Wynnewood Recreation Center Swim Team in various capacities over the past 18 years. Heather enjoys yoga, cooking, reading, walking the family dog, Frank, and occasionally gardening. She is trying to learn how to knit and keep sane while working from home.
Neriza Candelario
Market Day Volunteer Coordinator
Parenting an active daughter and son, both freshmen in college and high school respectively, Neriza has years of experience planning events. She has sat on numerous parent committees where she organized sports activities, tailgates and carpools. She’s ready to apply her coordination smarts to the market.
Rebecca Weimann
Events
Rebecca, a Swiss native, moved to Maryland in 2018 after having met her now-husband on a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2017. She has worked in hospitality for most of her life and is now the head cheesemaker at Atwater's. Her favorite hobbies are backpacking, gardening, cooking with friends and family, and exploring countries by trying the local cuisines.
For the CO-OP, Rebecca is excited to organize events where people can share their passion for locally produced food with like-minded people, and empower each other to engage with our environment in a sustainable way.
Delegates
Mary Ann Kingsley
Membership
I joined CCM in 2022 because I wanted to be a part of a cooperative experience and to have access to the fresh, local, and environmentally friendly products we all know and love. I have had a longstanding interest in cooperatives and I've learned that membership engagement is critically important and takes real effort to develop.
I'm married and have three grown kids. I have worked as the grant writer for the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore since 2017, so I have some knowledge and experience with a variety of types of grants that might be helpful in further developing CCM.
Helen Kinigopoulos
Produce Manager
Helen is a retired Speech Pathologist who grew up in Baltimore. As an immigrant family, she lives in a neighborhood where dinner hour is scented with fragrant spices. She has spent much of her life thoroughly enjoying the “strange” foods of other places and cultures, which is why she enjoys ordering the produce for Market Days - hoping someone will learn something new about the world of fresh local food.