Chef Ann Foundation
Vanessa Zajfen currently serves as a Senior Procurement Specialist at Chef Ann Foundation and is also the Director of Food & Nutrition Services for Ojai Unified School District. With extensive experience in food systems and nutrition services, Zajfen has held key positions including Director of Food Nutrition Services at OCEAN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT and at the Center for Good Food Purchasing, where strategic initiatives were implemented to enhance nutrition in school programs. Previous roles include managing Farm to School grants at USDA and developing the first farm to school program at San Diego Unified School District. Zajfen holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture from Iowa State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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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!