Chef Instructors

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“…underfed or overfed, people aren’t getting the nutrients and vitamins that lead to proper development.” – The Chicago Tribune

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 Angles, 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!

Rae Ellen Gutrich
Deborah Hornbeck
Curtis C. Jones Jr.
Douglas Lammie
Alexander Martin
Alekka Mills
Nicole Putzel
Betsy Robinson
Maggie Swanson
Samantha Vick-McGill
Geraldine Vo
Cheryl Williamson
Wendy Zacca



Rae Ellen Gutrich
Chicago- Ronald McDonald House & Marsh School
Deborah Hornbeck
Miami
Curtis C. Jones Jr.
Chicago- Bethune School
Douglas Lammie
Chicago- South Shore Cultural Center
Alexander Martin
Chicago- Jordan School & Madero Middle School
Alekka Mills
Chicago - Robert Morris University & CICS Irving Park
Nicole Putzel
Chicago- Whole Foods Lincoln Park
Betsy Robinson
Chef Instructor
Maggie Swanson
Chicago- Mark Sheridan School
Samantha Vick-McGill
Washington D.C.
Geraldine Vo
Chicago
Cheryl Williamson
Garden Instructor
Wendy Zacca
Miami- Miami-Dade College
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