Wendy Zacca

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!

Born in Kingston, Jamaica moved to Miami in 1979 where she attended William Jennings Bryan Elementary school, graduating from North Miami Senior High school in 1987. She worked for Carnival Cruise Lines while attending Johnson & Wales University where she attained her Associates in Science in Culinary Arts. Wendy has worked for years as the Culinary Instructor at Easter Seals South Florida in the area of Special Education. She also works with Common Threads as a part time Chef Instructor of young children between the ages of 8 to 13, teaching them how to cook healthy nutritious foods. She is the proud mom of her 9 year son Giovannie.