As the founder of Eat Club, Ruth Soroko offers the charity a range of personal skills. Her Masters degree in Food and Nutrition Policy from City University of London underpins the academic and research foundation of Eat Club. Her past experience with running her own design business has given her financial and project management skills as well as aiding her in giving Eat Club a unique visual identity.

Svenja is passionate about helping the environment and people and so has spent the last 7 years working in sustainability and community engagement roles, including many projects focused on food. Having had a love of food since childhood she is a keen home cook, hosting dinner parties for friends, as well as for charities including FoodCycle, Furloughed Foodies and Refugee Community Kitchen..

When not creating dishes at Alba inside Whitechapel Gallery, Jess dedicates her time to New Horizon’s Youth Centre. Together with the young chefs, she prepares global delicacies most Tuesdays, bringing joy and flavour to every meal.

Peter Brown is a corporate, marketing and brand strategist with over 20 years of experience including work at KPMG and Orange. He is a trustee and strategic advisor at The Connection at St. Martin’s, the leading London homelessness charity, as well as strategic consultant to Independent Age and The Seckford Foundation.

Carmen brings over 15 years of leadership experience specialising in growth and partnerships, executive advisory, and risk management. A holder of MBA from the London Business School and Fellowship with the Society of Actuaries, coupled with strategy advisory experiences at the Boston Consulting Group and Google, Carmen brings her acumen in growth and tech balancing with responsible finance, risk and governance.

I’ve been a part of Eat Club since 2021, where I initially joined at a young leader. I have a background in nutritional sciences and love everything to do with food, cooking, and community. Now, as the coordinator of the Young Leaders Programme, I have the chance to share my experience from working in the the food activism space, whilst empowering other like-minded young people to take action and improve other young Londoners’ experiences with their food environments.