Chef Ann Foundation
Melissa Aune, MPH, CHES, currently serves as the Senior Program Coordinator for the School Food Institute at the Chef Ann Foundation since June 2023. Previously, Melissa held the position of Assistant Coordinator for Veggie RX at Denver Inner City Parish from September 2022 to June 2023. Melissa's earlier experience includes a Food Program Specialist Practicum at Fairfax County Public Schools, where responsibilities included creating a food safety curriculum and providing nutrition education. With over a decade of experience in healthcare education as the Director of Interactive Healthcare Education Services at SSB, Inc., Melissa managed a team of experts and oversaw content certification processes. Melissa holds a Master of Public Health degree in Public Health Nutrition from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from George Mason University, complemented by an Associate of Arts and Sciences in Nursing from Northern Virginia Community College.
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!