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Our Team

Delna Buhariwalla (co-founder & executive director) looking ahead with arms crossed in front of graffiti wall.
  • PROGRAM COORDINATOR
    Angela Rueda came on board as COOK-UP's Administrative Assistant early 2023 and has now been promoted to Program Coordinator. To say that it already feels like she has become a fixture at COOK-UP is an understatement. Since the beginning, she has been using her skills to perform a variety of tasks. She handles administrative functions, and she is often found collaborating with entrepreneurs in their activities and events. She is resourceful, creative and passionate about food, but specially about the ways in which food brings people together. Angela is a mother of two daughters and one fur baby: Bailey. Among her passions are baking, playing tennis and spending quality time with her family.


 Delna Buhariwalla

Trishauna Linton (co-founder & director of programs) smiling looking sideways in front of a graffiti wall.
  • PROGRAM COORDINATOR
    Angela Rueda came on board as COOK-UP's Administrative Assistant early 2023 and has now been promoted to Program Coordinator. To say that it already feels like she has become a fixture at COOK-UP is an understatement. Since the beginning, she has been using her skills to perform a variety of tasks. She handles administrative functions, and she is often found collaborating with entrepreneurs in their activities and events. She is resourceful, creative and passionate about food, but specially about the ways in which food brings people together. Angela is a mother of two daughters and one fur baby: Bailey. Among her passions are baking, playing tennis and spending quality time with her family.

 Trishauna Linton

Angela Rueda (program coordinator) in a downtown lane with and her dog smiling with graffiti and street behind her.
  • PROGRAM COORDINATOR
    Angela Rueda came on board as COOK-UP's Administrative Assistant early 2023 and has now been promoted to Program Coordinator. To say that it already feels like she has become a fixture at COOK-UP is an understatement. Since the beginning, she has been using her skills to perform a variety of tasks. She handles administrative functions, and she is often found collaborating with entrepreneurs in their activities and events. She is resourceful, creative and passionate about food, but specially about the ways in which food brings people together. Angela is a mother of two daughters and one fur baby: Bailey. Among her passions are baking, playing tennis and spending quality time with her family.

 Angela Rueda

Saffron Mastellotto-Lesny
  • PROGRAM COORDINATOR
    Angela Rueda came on board as COOK-UP's Administrative Assistant early 2023 and has now been promoted to Program Coordinator. To say that it already feels like she has become a fixture at COOK-UP is an understatement. Since the beginning, she has been using her skills to perform a variety of tasks. She handles administrative functions, and she is often found collaborating with entrepreneurs in their activities and events. She is resourceful, creative and passionate about food, but specially about the ways in which food brings people together. Angela is a mother of two daughters and one fur baby: Bailey. Among her passions are baking, playing tennis and spending quality time with her family.

Saffron Mastellotto-Lesny

FUNDING PARTNERS

Logo of Community Foundations of Canada with an element composed of a dozen colourful shapes, all moving together in harmony.
Logo of Canadian Women's Foundation with red, blue, yellow and purple element.
Logo of Libro Credit Union in blue text accompanied with icon of green (land), blue (water), and yellow (sun) elements.
Logo of Windsor Essex Community Foundation featuring blue and green text, with design of three human figures forming a tree.
Logo of equality fund with black text and a black rectangle icon featuring a semi-circle on top.
Logo of Verge Capital featuring the text 'VERGE' with a multicoloured check mark or abstract icon above it.
Logos of the Canadian Red Cross, Community Foundations of Canada, and United Way Centraide Canada. 'Community Services.'
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COOK-UP is supported by the Government of Canada’s Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative and the Tropicana Community Services.

​We acknowledge that we are on land originally inhabited by indigenous peoples that have traveled this area since time immemorial. We recognize the traditional territory of the three fires confederacy (Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Huron/Wendat) peoples. We are grateful to live and work on this land and are dedicated to respecting indigenous peoples, history, and culture.

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