Alone one can do so little; Together we can do wonders!
Our Team!
Founding Members, Board & Board Advisors
Vijay Gurusamy
Founder & CEO
Vijay GurusamyFounder & CEO
Vijay Gurusamy is the Founder & CEO of Outside2Inside non profit organization.
Vijay always had the drive to create an awareness about food waste reduction among the public because there was so much hunger on one side and food being wasted on the other side. He strives to create a balance by starting this non profit organization Outside2Inside, spreading the knowledge about food cycle, areas where food waste can be prevented, recovered and recycled. He believes that small baby steps are needed by all to create a positive impact in the society.
Sanjai Athi
CFO & Director of Programs Execution
Sanjai AthiCFO & Director of Programs Execution
Sanjai Athi is the CFO at Outside2Inside. Sanjai has the overall strategic and operational responsibility for the Nonprofit’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission.
Sanjai works as a senior manager and lives with twin daughters in California. He also enjoys playing with kids. Sanjai likes to draw and is exceptionally good in playing guitar.
Dylan J. Bondy
Food Waste Recovery Expert
Dylan J. BondyFood Waste Recovery Expert
Dylan J. Bondy is Head of Outreach at Imperfect, America’s leading consumer brand for “cosmetically-challenged” fruits and vegetables. Imperfect is on a mission to find a home for the 6 billion pounds per year of produce that is currently wasted because of aesthetic non-conformity that doesn’t affect taste or quality.
Previously, Dylan founded Food Recovery Network at Grinnell College in 2013 while he was a student at the small Iowa liberal arts school. Under Dylan’s leadership, FRN at Grinnell became the first rural chapter of the national student non-profit. By connecting the college dining hall, local restaurants, and grocery stores to local outlets for distribution throughout the
George Boyd
Meditation Expert
George BoydMeditation Expert
George A. Boyd is a meditation teacher, counselor, poet, and author. George has studied and practiced meditation since 1965. He is a master meditation teacher and an innovator in the field of meditation. He developed a system of Integral meditation in 1983 that he has taught to groups and individuals since that time. He is the founder of the Mudrashram® Institute of Spiritual Studies and the editor and publisher of Mudrashram® Publishing.
George holds a BA in Psychology from UCLA, an MA in Clinical Psychology from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and an Alcohol Drug Counseling Certificate
Sriram Natarajan
CCO & Director of Food Waste Recovery & Recycle Programs
Sriram NatarajanCCO & Director of Food Waste Recovery & Recycle Programs
Sriram Natarajan had an inquisitiveness to serve the community and loves to spend time with Nature. He is the Director of Food Recovery and Recycle at Outside2Inside. He successfully led the Farm2School program where we recover the so called “wonky” but nutritious produce from the farms and take it to the schools. Hence bringing awareness about food waste reduction, recovering wonky produce and bridging the gap between farms and consumers. He hopes to lead more such programs successfully in Food Recovery and Recycling.Sriram Natarajan works as a Hardware Engineer in California, USA by profession, was bornKaveh Mirshafiei
Legal Expert
Kaveh MirshafieiLegal Expert
Kaveh Mirshafiei is a licensed attorney admitted to practice in the State of California. He received the Juris Doctor degree with a Certificate in Business Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 2012, where he served as an editor of Lewis and Clark Environmental Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of California, at Los Angeles.
While attending Lewis & Clark Law School, Kaveh interned with Lewis & Clark Small Business Legal Clinic, where he assisted small businesses in the Portland metropolitan area with various business
Vijay Gurusamy
Founder & CEO
Founder & CEO
Vijay Gurusamy is the Founder & CEO of Outside2Inside non profit organization.
Vijay always had the drive to create an awareness about food waste reduction among the public because there was so much hunger on one side and food being wasted on the other side. He strives to create a balance by starting this non profit organization Outside2Inside, spreading the knowledge about food cycle, areas where food waste can be prevented, recovered and recycled. He believes that small baby steps are needed by all to create a positive impact in the society.
Sanjai Athi
CFO & Director of Programs Execution
CFO & Director of Programs Execution
Sanjai Athi is the CFO at Outside2Inside. Sanjai has the overall strategic and operational responsibility for the Nonprofit’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission.
Sanjai works as a senior manager and lives with twin daughters in California. He also enjoys playing with kids. Sanjai likes to draw and is exceptionally good in playing guitar.
Dylan J. Bondy
Food Waste Recovery Expert
Food Waste Recovery Expert
Dylan J. Bondy is Head of Outreach at Imperfect, America’s leading consumer brand for “cosmetically-challenged” fruits and vegetables. Imperfect is on a mission to find a home for the 6 billion pounds per year of produce that is currently wasted because of aesthetic non-conformity that doesn’t affect taste or quality.
Previously, Dylan founded Food Recovery Network at Grinnell College in 2013 while he was a student at the small Iowa liberal arts school. Under Dylan’s leadership, FRN at Grinnell became the first rural chapter of the national student non-profit. By connecting the college dining hall, local restaurants, and grocery stores to local outlets for distribution throughout the
George Boyd
Meditation Expert
Meditation Expert
George A. Boyd is a meditation teacher, counselor, poet, and author. George has studied and practiced meditation since 1965. He is a master meditation teacher and an innovator in the field of meditation. He developed a system of Integral meditation in 1983 that he has taught to groups and individuals since that time. He is the founder of the Mudrashram® Institute of Spiritual Studies and the editor and publisher of Mudrashram® Publishing.
George holds a BA in Psychology from UCLA, an MA in Clinical Psychology from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and an Alcohol Drug Counseling Certificate
Sriram Natarajan
CCO & Director of Food Waste Recovery & Recycle Programs
CCO & Director of Food Waste Recovery & Recycle Programs
Kaveh Mirshafiei
Legal Expert
Legal Expert
Kaveh Mirshafiei is a licensed attorney admitted to practice in the State of California. He received the Juris Doctor degree with a Certificate in Business Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 2012, where he served as an editor of Lewis and Clark Environmental Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of California, at Los Angeles.
While attending Lewis & Clark Law School, Kaveh interned with Lewis & Clark Small Business Legal Clinic, where he assisted small businesses in the Portland metropolitan area with various business
Food Waste Awareness, Recovery & Recycle Program
Collin Miller
Project Manager
Collin MillerProject Manager
Collin is a freshman at UC Berkeley and is from the Los Angeles area. He discovered his passion for business after founding Cleat Companion, a 3D printed tool used in cleat-based games (soccer, football, etc.). He’s also passionate about nutrition as he founded a club, Nutrition on a Mission, in high school–a club dedicated to sports nutritions effect on athletes performance. In his free time, he enjoys surfing and playing soccer. Recently, he learned how to unicycle and now cycles off-road and marathons. His goal for this year is to meet new people who share the same interests and help out around the community.
Annie Li
Project Manager
Annie LiProject Manager
Annie is a first year student at UC Berkeley and an associate consultant with FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development). She is currently studying Nutrition Sciences with an emphasis in Dietetics. Originally from Southern California, Annie was an active teaching volunteer at the Orange County Discovery Cube Science Center in Santa Ana, California. There, she led nutrition classes including Healthy Kitchen where children and families learned how to cook tasty and nutritious meals by using healthy non-processed ingredients. After graduation, Annie hopes to find a career in which she can employ her passions and skills in food and business to make an impact on the community. During her free time, Annie loves to bake and travel to new places. She is looking forward to working with the rest of the team at Outside2Inside this semester.
Wynnie Chan
Food Waste Researcher
Wynnie ChanFood Waste Researcher
Wynnie is a first year student at UC Berkeley and a FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development) associate consultant. An undeclared major with an interest in sociology, cognitive science, and environmental science, she is passionate about the Ugly Food Movement and environmental sustainability. She was an active volunteer and member of her community; besides being a member of volunteer clubs such as Key Club and Tri-M Music Honor Society, she worked as a Science Olympiad assistant coach for 3 years and tutored elementary and middle schoolers in music. She also served as president of her high school orchestra. She is looking forward to expanding her passion for environmental science and putting it into practice alongside the O2I team.
Ali Almuhanna
Food Waste Researcher
Ali AlmuhannaFood Waste Researcher
Hello, I am Ali, an international student from Saudi Arabia studying chemical engineering. I come from an agricultural city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia called Hofuf. I am interested in food and water systems and would love to apply what I learn in engineering to improve food systems. Besides food systems, I am passionate about energy, specifically large-scale energy systems from renewables to fossil fuels and how we can balance our energy portfolio and minimize environmental. I have done research in chemistry to optimize a device that uses materials called Metal-Organic frameworks to harvest water from the humidity of the air solely using solar power.
I love to meet people from different backgrounds and have conversations with them to gain new insights and expand my horizon. A lot of my time is spent on Wikipedia and other websites reading articles ranging from technology to history to politics. I try to follow world politics because without knowing what is happening around me I cannot know where I stand. I look forward working with O2I and be part of an organization that makes a positive impact on people’s lives!
Keana Werlen
Food Waste Researcher
Keana WerlenFood Waste Researcher
Keana is a first-year student at UC Berkeley studying Nutritional Sciences. She is passionate about volunteering and has experience as a hospital volunteer at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a cook at the Ronald McDonald House for families with hospitalized children, and an event coordinator at numerous community fairs. In high school, she founded and led the Children’s Hospital Care club with a goal to support pediatric patients at local hospitals by making them DIY crafts created by students. She was also an intern at the Sourland Conservancy, where she took part in environmental conservation efforts and spearheaded a foraging forest cookbook project that featured recipes using edible native plants grown in the foraging forest restoration project at a community park. Her work experience includes a barista at a boba cafe and a student service assistant at the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. Currently, she is a member of FEED at UC Berkeley, a food justice consulting club, as well as many other food-related organizations. She is excited to join yet another food organization as an O2I volunteer and is looking forward to promoting sustainability and developing a suburban community garden.
Arianna Hee
Food Waste Researcher
Arianna HeeFood Waste Researcher
Arianna is a second year student at UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing a degree in Nutritional Sciences. She is passionate about working towards a future in which the foundation of our food system is built on environmental sustainability and predictable accessibility. In addition to being a member of FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development) at UC Berkeley, she volunteers at a student-run grocery store called the Food Collective. She also volunteers for The Suitcase Clinic, which is a humanitarian organization that takes a holistic approach to caring for the overall well-being of the homeless community. She sang with the San Francisco Girls Chorus for 7 years and is currently singing with the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus. She is very excited to work with the Outside2Inside team this semester!
Annie Liu
Food Waste Researcher
Annie LiuFood Waste Researcher
Annie is a student at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Conservation and Resource Studies and Ecosystems Management. She is passionate about sustainable agriculture and food systems, and has experience in managing a small farm space, environmental education, and curriculum development. In the future, she hopes to work with non-profits and community-oriented organizations.
Collin Miller
Project Manager
Project Manager
Collin is a freshman at UC Berkeley and is from the Los Angeles area. He discovered his passion for business after founding Cleat Companion, a 3D printed tool used in cleat-based games (soccer, football, etc.). He’s also passionate about nutrition as he founded a club, Nutrition on a Mission, in high school–a club dedicated to sports nutritions effect on athletes performance. In his free time, he enjoys surfing and playing soccer. Recently, he learned how to unicycle and now cycles off-road and marathons. His goal for this year is to meet new people who share the same interests and help out around the community.
Annie Li
Project Manager
Project Manager
Annie is a first year student at UC Berkeley and an associate consultant with FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development). She is currently studying Nutrition Sciences with an emphasis in Dietetics. Originally from Southern California, Annie was an active teaching volunteer at the Orange County Discovery Cube Science Center in Santa Ana, California. There, she led nutrition classes including Healthy Kitchen where children and families learned how to cook tasty and nutritious meals by using healthy non-processed ingredients. After graduation, Annie hopes to find a career in which she can employ her passions and skills in food and business to make an impact on the community. During her free time, Annie loves to bake and travel to new places. She is looking forward to working with the rest of the team at Outside2Inside this semester.
Wynnie Chan
Food Waste Researcher
Food Waste Researcher
Wynnie is a first year student at UC Berkeley and a FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development) associate consultant. An undeclared major with an interest in sociology, cognitive science, and environmental science, she is passionate about the Ugly Food Movement and environmental sustainability. She was an active volunteer and member of her community; besides being a member of volunteer clubs such as Key Club and Tri-M Music Honor Society, she worked as a Science Olympiad assistant coach for 3 years and tutored elementary and middle schoolers in music. She also served as president of her high school orchestra. She is looking forward to expanding her passion for environmental science and putting it into practice alongside the O2I team.
Ali Almuhanna
Food Waste Researcher
Food Waste Researcher
Hello, I am Ali, an international student from Saudi Arabia studying chemical engineering. I come from an agricultural city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia called Hofuf. I am interested in food and water systems and would love to apply what I learn in engineering to improve food systems. Besides food systems, I am passionate about energy, specifically large-scale energy systems from renewables to fossil fuels and how we can balance our energy portfolio and minimize environmental. I have done research in chemistry to optimize a device that uses materials called Metal-Organic frameworks to harvest water from the humidity of the air solely using solar power.
I love to meet people from different backgrounds and have conversations with them to gain new insights and expand my horizon. A lot of my time is spent on Wikipedia and other websites reading articles ranging from technology to history to politics. I try to follow world politics because without knowing what is happening around me I cannot know where I stand. I look forward working with O2I and be part of an organization that makes a positive impact on people’s lives!
Keana Werlen
Food Waste Researcher
Food Waste Researcher
Keana is a first-year student at UC Berkeley studying Nutritional Sciences. She is passionate about volunteering and has experience as a hospital volunteer at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a cook at the Ronald McDonald House for families with hospitalized children, and an event coordinator at numerous community fairs. In high school, she founded and led the Children’s Hospital Care club with a goal to support pediatric patients at local hospitals by making them DIY crafts created by students. She was also an intern at the Sourland Conservancy, where she took part in environmental conservation efforts and spearheaded a foraging forest cookbook project that featured recipes using edible native plants grown in the foraging forest restoration project at a community park. Her work experience includes a barista at a boba cafe and a student service assistant at the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. Currently, she is a member of FEED at UC Berkeley, a food justice consulting club, as well as many other food-related organizations. She is excited to join yet another food organization as an O2I volunteer and is looking forward to promoting sustainability and developing a suburban community garden.
Arianna Hee
Food Waste Researcher
Food Waste Researcher
Arianna is a second year student at UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing a degree in Nutritional Sciences. She is passionate about working towards a future in which the foundation of our food system is built on environmental sustainability and predictable accessibility. In addition to being a member of FEED (Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development) at UC Berkeley, she volunteers at a student-run grocery store called the Food Collective. She also volunteers for The Suitcase Clinic, which is a humanitarian organization that takes a holistic approach to caring for the overall well-being of the homeless community. She sang with the San Francisco Girls Chorus for 7 years and is currently singing with the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus. She is very excited to work with the Outside2Inside team this semester!
Annie Liu
Food Waste Researcher
Food Waste Researcher
Annie is a student at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Conservation and Resource Studies and Ecosystems Management. She is passionate about sustainable agriculture and food systems, and has experience in managing a small farm space, environmental education, and curriculum development. In the future, she hopes to work with non-profits and community-oriented organizations.