Ben works with Maine's community-based fishermen to develop projects, policies, and ideas to strengthen Maine's fisheries for today, tomorrow, and forever.

Monique oversees MCFA's marine programs and fishing community engagement. Currently, she is working closely with commercial fishermen to develop ways to protect, persevere, and revitalize Maine's working waterfronts.​​

Kat champions MCFA’s donor relations program and helps the team maximize the value of our  fundraising and event activities. She also supports effective outreach across MCFA's many communications channels and constituencies.

Nina provides administrative support for MCFA's programs and general operations - working with our donor database, running the Fishermen's Shop and wholesale merch outreach, developing graphics and content to tell MCFA's story, plugging away on data entry, and any other supportive admin tasks that might crop up.

Jill accelerates planning and resource development to scale MFCA’s existing programs to achieve greater community impact and works with the team and partners to launch new initiatives and special projects. She builds systems to help the team remain nimble and responsive as MCFA grows.

Emerson manages and develops programs and projects to protect critical working waterfront infrastructure, and implements strategies, programs, and policies that benefit commercial fishing and seafood businesses.​

Mary works with members of the Maine Coast Community Sector on issues related to their groundfish fishing businesses. Mary is also lead on MCFA's camera monitoring projects in groundfish and scallops fisheries, and runs MCFA's Fishermen Feeding Mainers program.​

Susan helps MCFA to promote sustainable fisheries in Maine by building on existing partnerships and expanding the reach and capacity of the organization to positively impact coastal communities and the fishing heritage that makes them unique. With a background in marine science as well as experience as a freelance writer, she helps bring together the many aspects of MCFA's work to further its mission.