Brandi Bruns, Chief Financial Officer

An Indiana native, Brandi has spent more than 20 years working leading statewide development teams and serving as a finance and compliance director for various campaigns, though her true passion has always centered around food.

Brandi started her career in the Indianapolis office of US Senator Evan Bayh. From there she transitioned to his 2004 reelection campaign, serving as the Indiana Finance & Compliance Director. Brandi went on to work as the Corporate Giving Manager at the Wishard Foundation,at Planned Parenthood of Indiana as the Development Director, and on the 2008 and 2012 Indiana Democratic Party Coordinated Campaigns, focusing on campaign compliance and operations.

In 2013, Brandi moved to Nashville.  She started business school at Owen Graduate School of Management shortly thereafter and worked on special marketing projects for a sustainable food start-up. She was tapped to serve as the Senior Advisor on the Karl Dean for Governor campaign, and then went on to serve as a consultant with political, non-profit and corporate clients.

Brandi received a degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University Bloomington and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. In her free time, Brandi can be found in the kitchen, hiking, working through a list of must-try restaurants, or reading. She shares her home with three cats: Sam, Olive & Max.

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Hanes Motsinger, Chief Program Officer

Hanes Motsinger grew up on a farm in State Road, North Carolina, a rural community located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Throughout her childhood, she spent the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas helping her grandparents on their small "choose and cut" Christmas tree farm in Allegheny County, North Carolina. In hindsight, that early experience piqued her wonder for the natural world and her curiosity about agriculture and land-based livelihoods.

Today, Hanes' professional life is defined by the pursuit of social and environmental justice, and her engagement with this work has consistently returned to food and agriculture. She has spent time working with farm-to-table kitchens, migrant farmworker rights organizations, agricultural land trusts, and the global coffee sector. She is ecstatic about joining The Nashville Food Project and diving deep into the work of building community and justice through food (what a dream)! When she's not at work, you can find Hanes beekeeping, playing clawhammer banjo, tasting new coffees from around the world, or visiting the mountains of North Carolina. She moved to Nashville in May 2019.