Current source roster
Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity / PartnerTulsa
Trustee
Current official roster
Only the stated relationship is established; no control, coordination or private financial benefit inferred.
People / Government & civic life
Katie Plohocky
Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity Trustee; RG Foods Founder and Executive Director
Connecting neighborhood food access with public economic-development governance.
Katie Plohocky serves on PartnerTulsa’s governing board and leads RG Foods, whose work combines mobile groceries, neighborhood stores and food distribution. Her documented public-service history includes chairing the Tulsa Industrial Authority before the 2021 restructuring.
A business background applied to food access
RG Foods describes Plohocky as holding an MBA from the University of Phoenix and having more than fifteen years of restaurant-industry experience. Walman Commercial Real Estate Services supplies a dated career point: its biography says she joined in 2007, bringing experience in leasing, project management and lease administration. That undated employer page is evidence of the earlier role, not proof of continued employment. Ashoka’s account, prepared for her 2020 fellowship, dates her involvement in a community-led Tulsa development effort to 2008. The sources do not establish a graduation date or a complete employment chronology.
Career & public service
- 2007
Walman commercial-real-estate role
Employer biography says she joined as a sales associate; no departure date verified.
- 2008
Community development turn
Ashoka dates her engagement with a Tulsa community-development initiative to2008.
- 2010
Initiative formed
Organizational history names Plohocky among three HCSI founders.
- 2013
Mobile grocery launch
Ashoka dates the R&G Family Grocers launch to2013.
- 2020
Ashoka fellowship
Selected as an Ashoka fellow.
- April2021
Public-authority transition
City announcement identifies her as outgoing Industrial Authority chair.
- September2025
Dream Center store operating
Tulsa Flyer reports five months of Grocery Box operation.
- April2026
Phoenix at36N opening
September2026report dates the newer store opening toApril.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Following the connections
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
personKatie Plohocky
authorityTulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity / PartnerTulsa
Current public trusteeship.
personKatie Plohocky
nonprofitRG Foods Inc.
Nonprofit leadership and host partnership, separate from the public office.
personKatie Plohocky
nonprofitRG Foods Inc.
Reported program collaboration; no ownership or payment amount inferred.
Documented relationships
7 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Current source roster
RG Foods Inc.
Founder and executive director
Current employer biography and September2026report
Employer also calls her president; no ownership or compensation claim. Founding history predates present legal entity and exact corporate succession is unresolved.
Current source roster
RG Foods Inc.
Grocery Box host partnership · Tulsa Dream Center
Operating Dream Center grocery reportedSeptember2025
Only the stated relationship is established; no control, coordination or private financial benefit inferred.
Current source roster
RG Foods Inc.
Produce incentive partnership · Hunger Free Oklahoma
ReportedSeptember2025 and September2026
Only the stated relationship is established; no control, coordination or private financial benefit inferred.
Historical record
Ashoka
Ashoka fellow
Selected2020
Dated fellowship selection; no stipend amount or continuing appointment term inferred.
Historical record
Walman Commercial Real Estate Services
Former sales associate
Joined2007 per employer biography
Exact dates not otherwise established; no ownership, coordination or financial benefit inferred.
Current source roster
Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition
Vice president
Named on current official board roster
Exact dates not otherwise established; no ownership, coordination or financial benefit inferred.
What the city funding record establishes
The City of Tulsa’s 2024 Recovery Plan Performance Report lists $227,381.38 in funding for the HCSI Fund Food Security Program, with a performance period from July 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022. The entry describes food procurement, distribution and infrastructure for a food hub. It also discusses collaboration with Oasis Fresh Market to obtain groceries through a wholesale provider. The amount belongs to a public program entry. It is neither Plohocky’s personal compensation nor evidence that the full amount was paid on a particular date.
Interpretation
Assessing the results without overstating them
The city report identifies spreadsheets and a partner survey as measurement tools and describes participants served and groceries distributed. Those are program-reported outputs, not a controlled evaluation of health effects. Similarly, the stores’ reported opening dates and institutional partnerships establish operations and relationships, while long-term claims about health, community ownership and financial durability require additional evidence. The distinction matters because Plohocky’s approach joins food retail to broader economic-development aims; evidence of an operating store is a foundation for evaluating those aims, not proof that each has been achieved.
From an initiative to a food-distribution system
The organization’s history says the Healthy Community Store Initiative was formed in 2010 by Steven Eberle, Scott Smith and Plohocky. Ashoka dates the mobile grocery launch to 2013. RG Foods now describes that work as a family of programs linking growing, distribution, retail access and food recovery. A mobile store can reach several neighborhoods, while smaller permanent stores offer more regular access. This is an institutional history and program evolution; it does not establish an exact legal merger date or prove that every historical name denotes the same corporation.
The industrial-authority connection
When Tulsa announced TAEO’s first regular meeting in April 2021, it identified Plohocky as outgoing chair of the Tulsa Industrial Authority. In the announcement she connected her professional concern with food insecurity to the new authority’s economic-opportunity mission. That contemporary statement documents her stated rationale for participating in the institutional transition. It does not establish that the authority financed her nonprofit or that she directed its other trustees. Her current seat is verified through the present roster, separately from the earlier chairmanship.
Permanent stores alongside the mobile service
In September 2025, Tulsa Flyer reported that RG Foods’ Grocery Box at the Tulsa Dream Center had been operating for five months. The article described a shipping-container grocery and a mobile service reaching Tulsa Housing Authority communities. Residents described the practical benefit of getting groceries nearer home. Plohocky presented the store as a pilot for a wider model, including training future operators and improving wholesale access. Expansion intentions are distinct from opened locations. The article anticipated an October opening at Phoenix at 36N; later reporting establishes a different actual timetable.
A newer link between housing and food retail
FOX23 reporting carried by KRMG in September 2026 placed the Phoenix at 36N Grocery Box opening in April 2026. That dated account supersedes the earlier opening forecast. The report described Ascension St. John’s support for RG Foods and for expansion of Double Up Oklahoma, a produce-incentive program administered through Hunger Free Oklahoma. These connections place the grocery work within a network of housing, health and food-access institutions. The health system’s broader community-investment claims should not be read as an award total to RG Foods.
A separate urban-agriculture role
The Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition’s official board page identifies Plohocky as vice president. This is an additional nonprofit governance role, separate from RG Foods and TAEO. The coalition roster connects her food-access experience with an organization focused on urban agriculture. It does not establish a grant to her organization, a contract between the bodies or the dates when she entered the role.
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Sources & corrections
Research checked 2026-11-01. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
- PartnerTulsa · Board of Trustees ↗
Primary source · Checked 2026-09-26
- City of Tulsa: TAEO first regular meeting ↗
Primary announcement · Checked 2026-11-01
2021 institutional transition and outgoing chairs; agenda preview, not proof of votes.
- RG Foods: staff biography ↗
Primary institutional biography · Checked 2026-11-01
Katie Plohocky: founder, president and executive director; MBA and professional background attributed to employer.
- RG Foods: organizational history ↗
Primary institutional history · Checked 2026-11-01
Our Beginning: HCSI formed2010 by Eberle, Smith and Plohocky; program evolution. Legal succession not independently audited.
- Ashoka: Katie Plohocky fellowship profile ↗
Primary fellowship profile · Checked 2026-11-01
Prepared upon2020fellowship; career and2013mobile launch. Program forecasts and broad health-effect claims not treated as established outcomes.
- Tulsa Flyer: Grocery Box after five months ↗
Independent reporting · Source date 2025-09-17 · Checked 2026-11-01
Kimberly Marsh; Dream Center store, mobile housing-community service and Hunger Free Oklahoma partnership. October2025next-opening forecast superseded by2026report.
- FOX23 reporting via KRMG: food access and community health ↗
Independent reporting · Source date 2026-09-18 · Checked 2026-11-01
Devyn Lyon; Phoenix at36N opening April2026; Ascension St.John support and DoubleUp administrator. Broad health-system investment total not assigned to RG Foods.
- City of Tulsa: 2024 Recovery Plan Performance Report ↗
Primary public funding report · Checked 2026-11-01
PDF/printed p45: HCSI Fund Food Security Program, funding$227,381.38USD, performanceJuly1,2021–December31,2022. Visually inspected; listed funding not verified cash disbursements or personal income.
- RG Foods: food access programs ↗
Primary program description · Checked 2026-11-01
Mobile store, microgroceries and Grocery Box model; institutional description, not independent evaluation.
- Walman Commercial: professional biography ↗
Primary employer biography · Checked 2026-11-01
Katie L.Plohocky entry: joined2007; historical employer account, not proof of current employment.
- Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition: board roster ↗
Primary board roster · Checked 2026-11-01
Katie Plohocky named vice president; appointment dates unspecified.