City Soup Team


The City Soup Team

  • Diane Loucks, Creator
  • Carole Luke, Carole Luke and Company
  • Kathy Carr, Consultant
  • Tammy Wang, Consultant

Special thanks to Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger, for hosting us on their website and for their partnership:

  • Alison Miller, VISTA Volunteer
  • Ronna Bolante, Communications Manager
  • Tanya Thampi-Sen, Program Manager

Interfaith Collective

  • Diane Loucks, 2008-2009 facilitator of the Mayor’s Task Force on Hunger, and Chair of the Interfaith Collective, City Soup Philadelphia.
  • The Reverend Dr. Katie Day, Professor of Church and Society, The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
  • Anne Ayella, Assistant Director Community Relations, Nutritional Development Services, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • Carey Morgan, Director, Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
  • Eric Wilden, Assistant Director, Neighborhood Interfaith Movement, Philadelphia
  • Elizabeth Rubin, Board member, Pincus Fund for Hunger Relief, and Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
  • The Reverend Schaunel Steinnagel, Hunger Action Enabler, Presbytery of Philadelphia
  • Sara Jane Baublitz, Graduate Intern, Neighborhood Interfaith Movement, Philadelphia
  • Erica Goldberg, Volunteer Coordinator, The Mitzvah Food Project, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

Scriptural Reference Contributors

  • Dr. Constance Carter, Director of The Muslim Women's Wellness Center, and member and affiliated with Masjid Mujahideen, Asim Adur Rashid, Imam and Ameer of Majlis ash'Ashura (Consulting Body Of Religious Leaders)
  • Suleyman Erdem, officer, Philadelphia Dialog Forum (PDF), a non-profit organization founded by Turkish-American Muslims 
  • Bread For the World