Our Team
The people who hold this work with care, presence, and devotion.
At Last Supper Foundation, our leadership and staff come from diverse backgrounds: hospitality, coaching, psychotherapy, and neuroscience. From this diversity we are united by one shared belief:
To nourish someone is to honor their life.
Our Staff
Ryan Baker
Founder/Executive Director
Ryan Baker is the Founder and Executive Director of Last Supper Foundation, a San Francisco–based nonprofit devoted to honoring individuals with terminal illnesses through personalized, story-driven meals. Drawing from over a decade as a professional chef in some of the world’s top kitchens, Ryan brings a deep reverence for food as both art and ritual. His path to founding the foundation was shaped by his own journey of healing and transformation through yoga, service, and devotion. Guided by compassion and creative storytelling, Ryan leads the organization with a vision to restore connection, dignity, and beauty to the end-of-life experience- one meal, one story, and one life at a time.
Antony Thier
Program Director
Antony Thier is a Bodhisattva-hearted somatic psychotherapist, father, and humble human being devoted to
cultivating joy and peace at every stage of life. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Antony trained in hospice care,
farming, and Zen at Green Gulch Farm, grounding his work in presence, compassion, and embodied wisdom.
He is the founder of Healthier Foundations, a nonprofit that served underserved youth across the San Francisco
Bay Area from 2006 to 2016.
Antony finds deep solace in the outdoors and in the relationships we forge there: with ourselves, with others,
and with the larger world that holds us.
Kelley Cape
Volunteer Coordinator
Born in San Diego, lost in Los Angeles, and found in San Francisco, Kelley is a locally published poet, social
equity leader, and big feeler. She has been doing belonging work that centers people for 10+ years. As the Director of Employee Engagement & Belonging at HomeFirst Services, she leads community-building
initiatives, social impact programs, and corporate volunteer efforts that strengthen connection and cultivate
dignity across the organization.
This foundation of empathy and community care also shapes her role as Volunteer Coordinator Last Supper
Foundation, where she helps create steady, compassionate spaces for individuals and families during tender life
transitions.
Jean Han
Head of Marketing/PR Partnership
Jean spent her career learning from some of the world’s most iconic luxury and technology brands, including Tiffany & Co., Samsung, Harry Winston, and Tourneau. Her work has always centered on building global brands rooted in authenticity, trust, and meaningful connection between company and consumer. After stepping away from corporate leadership, Jean devoted herself to a period of deep healing and personal transformation. This journey clarified her desire to align her professional expertise with her values. She now seeks to partner with purpose-driven organizations whose mission is to create lasting impact through education, healing, spirituality, and meaningful human connection. After living in NYC, Seoul, and Hong Kong, she feels a deep connection to SF.
Our Board of Directors
Michelle Hollingshead
Board Chair
Michelle Hollingshead specializes in transformational change. She is an entrepreneur, author of Meaning
Indicator, and an ICF Master Certified Coach who leads her life with passion and compassion. Michelle holds a
Master of Education from Lesley University and has extensive training in yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and
human development practices. She is a proud mother of two and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her
husband, Dan where she serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Bluegrass Community Foundation.
Matthew Bucksmith
Chief Financial Officer
Matthew’s first lessons in hospitality came not from a classroom but from a dining room floor. At fourteen, he learned that a well-timed smile, a plate passed with care, or a few kind words could turn a meal into something more. Over time, he began to see that service wasn’t just a job but a way of being- an act of presence.
After graduating from the University of Tennessee, Matthew followed the trail from dining rooms to ledgers,
searching for the same sense of purpose he’d found in serving others. It wasn’t until he joined a restaurant accounting firm that it all clicked. Numbers, like ingredients, told stories of people and their work. In those details, he found a new kind of service- helping restaurants thrive by seeing the whole picture.
Today, as CFO of Last Supper Foundation, Matthew carries that same belief: that hospitality can be a language of love, and that sound stewardship is an extension of care. Guided by the principles of holistic management, he works to balance people, purpose, and place- to ensure that the work of the Foundation nourishes all three.
​At home in the foothills outside Denver, Matthew, his wife, and their young son tend to their own small rhythms of hospitality- foraging mushrooms, drying herbs, sharing meals, and opening their doors to friends.
Around their table, as in his work, Matthew continues to find meaning in the simple, sacred act of breaking bread together.
Jessica Couch Ph. D
Secretary
Jessica brings a unique perspective that bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary science to support end-of-life wellbeing. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and has worked in the biotech industry for over 20 years, while also serving as a Reiki Master-Teacher (trained and certified by Jennifer Brinn) and certified 500-hour yoga teacher with Radiant Body Yoga under Kia Miller. A dedicated student of Tibetan Buddhism for more than two decades, Jessica integrates scientific understanding with deep spiritual practice rooted in yogic and Buddhist philosophies.
Jessica's commitment to end-of-life care was shaped by her volunteer work with Hospice of the Piedmont during her graduate studies, experiences that remain among the most meaningful of her life. There, she directly experienced both the profound need for compassionate presence and the gaps that often exist in dignified, holistic care during life's final transition.
Throughout her life journey, Jessica has woven together her scientific training with contemplative practices, personally witnessing the power of yoga, meditation, reiki, as well as western and eastern wisdom traditions to enable self-discovery and deep personal transformation. She finds her greatest joy in creating space for others to access an inner sense of well-being and wholeness, helping individuals and communities as they navigate life's most sacred transitions with harmony, equanimity and love.