Chef Ann Foundation
Josh Mathiasmeier, RD, currently serves as the Senior Operations Specialist at the Chef Ann Foundation since September 2023. Prior experience includes the role of Regional Director of Operations for Compass Group from April 2022 to September 2023, where responsibilities involved leading food service operations for senior living accounts in the Midwest. Josh's extensive background in nutritional services includes serving as the Director of Nutritional Services for Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, overseeing a $23 million child nutrition program. Previous roles include delivering expertise as a Consultant Dietitian, Registered Dietitian and Project Director at the Kansas State Department of Education, and various positions focused on dietary care in both long-term care and educational settings. Josh holds three Bachelor of Science degrees from Kansas State University in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Public Health, Human Nutrition, and Dietetics.
Chef Ann Foundation
The Chef Ann Foundation (formerly Food Family Farming Foundation, or F3) was founded in 2009 by Ann Cooper, an internationally recognized author, chef, educator, public speaker, and advocate of healthy food for all children. Chef Ann’s vision was to create an organization that helps schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food. Today, the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) carries out that vision by actively supporting school districts nationwide through grant programs and by providing tried and tested tools for school food change. Want to bring healthy, scratch-cooked food into schools? Head over to SchoolFoodInstitute.org to learn more about becoming a leader in school food change. Three new courses launching fall 2018!