Betsy Robinson

Common Threads’ Chef Instructors are professional chefs and teachers, trained in Common Threads’ unique curriculum, who teach the students at each of our thirty sites throughout Chicago, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC. Chef Instructors nurture and mentor our students, while leading them through the prep, cooking, clean-up and, of course, eating of the three hands-on ethnic recipes each week!

Betsy Robinson received her Hotel and Restaurant Management Degree from Oklahoma State University and her Professional Cooking Certificate from Kendall College in Illinois. She has always loved the food business having owned and managed hotels, restaurants and bakeries throughout her career. But her emphasis now is in sharing her knowledge through teaching wellness and healthy cooking. In addition to teaching for Common Threads, she teaches healthy cooking classes for individuals, and at a Doctor's Wellness Center and also at a Chicago high school where she was involved in implementing a scratch kitchen under the guidelines of the National School Lunch Program