Charlene Tan is a Social entrepreneur with five years’ experience in building a food justice organization in the Philippines. Conversantin multiple disciplines including development cooperation, management, engineering, anthropology and education.

Highly motivated and passionate about environmental and social justice.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Good Food Community, Inc. (2010-2015)
• Envisioned, pitched, led and adapted the only Community Shared Agriculture program in the Philippines
• that engages small holder farmers
• Fund-raised and managed key partnerships with donors, investors and development partners
• Provided internal leadership and vision to a team of committed volunteers
• Established internal structures and processes to facilitate teamwork and communication
• Developed programs to support farmer suppliers including appropriate financing, internal control systems
• for organic agriculture and transparency
• Organized a co-producers’ market for local, sustainable food access, advocacy and education