Contact SOVA - Staff Directory

  Title Phone Email
Joan Mithers Director of Food, Hunger and Community Support Programs (818) 988-7682 ext 112 JMithers@jfsla.org
Fred Summers Director of Operations (818) 988-7682 ext 115 FSummers@jfsla.org
Jane Zuckerman Director of Development
and Marketing		 (818) 988-7682 ext 120 JZuckerman@jfsla.org
Maxine Meyer Coordinator -
Product Resource Development & Baskets of Hope		 (818) 988-7682 ext 116 MMeyer@jfsla.org
Felice Resnick Coordinator - Volunteers and Fund Development (818) 988-7682 ext 118 FResnick@jfsla.org
Eilat Gutman Coordinator -
Information & Resource Centers		 (818) 988-7682 ext 108 EGutman@jfsla.org
Nancy Desser Coordinator -
Community Connections Project		 (818) 988-7682 ext 117 NDesser@jfsla.org
Charles Dinkel Coordinator -
Operations		 (818) 988-7682 ext 128 CDinkel@jfsla.org
Diane Linder Coordinator -
Office Administration		 (818) 988-7682 ext 110 DLinder@jfsla.org
Karo Kushugyan
   Bob Hemp
   Jovino Figueroa		 Coordinator - Warehousing
   Warehouse Assistant
   Warehouse Assistant		 (818) 988-7682  
Hessie Axelrod Pantry Manager
   West Location		 (310) 288-0286 HAxelrod@jfsla.org
Gil Ashendorf Asst. Pantry Manager
   West Location		 (310) 288-0286 GAshendorf@jfsla.org
Alfonso Canchola Asst. Pantry Manager
   Valley Location		 (818) 988-7682 ext 107 ACanchola@jfsla.org
Patrice Evans Pantry Assistant
   Valley Location		 (818) 988-7682  
Abe Venyige Pantry Manager
   Metro Location		 (323) 932-1658 AVenyige@jfsla.org
Lynda Alter Asst. Pantry Manager
   Metro Location		 (323) 932-1658 LAlter@jfsla.org
SOVA Advisory Committee Members
  • Rick Powell (Co-chair)
  • Barbara Weiser (Co-chair)
  • Zucky Altman
  • Jon Brandler
  • Phil Colburn
  • Ann Cutrow
  • Monique Gibbons
  • Dorothy Goren
  • Les Hawkins
  • Joyce Leanse
  • Kimberly LeaVesseur
  • Connie Lembark
  • Mark Levey
  • Jeff Nagler
  • Wendy Ordower
  • Shana Passman
  • Larry Powell
  • Elyse Salend
  • David Soloway
  • Trinka Soloway
  • Mitch Stein
  • Steve Ullman
  • Ella Zarky
 SOVA Resource Development
Committee Members
  • Rick Powell (Co-chair)
  • Barbara Weiser (Co-chair)
  • Bear Barnes
  • Ira Cohen
  • Nancy Eisenstadt
  • Rusty Feldman
  • Leslie Friedman
  • Ken Gross
  • Priscilla Halper
  • Susan Lebow
  • Yale Levenberg
  • Maxine Meyer
  • Joan Mithers
  • Diane Nosseck
  • Shana Passman
  • Larry Powell
  • Sheila Spiwak
  • Mitch Stein
  • Fred Summers
  • Jane Zuckerman

Pantry phones are answered only during pantry hours. Please check these hours by visiting our pantry locations page.