Chef Ann Foundation
The Chef Ann Foundation is the nation’s champion for real food in schools. We were founded when chef and “renegade lunch lady” Ann Cooper joined forces with parent and food systems change advocate Mara Fleishman. They built the Chef Ann Foundation to help schools replace ultraprocessed foods with fresh, delicious meals cooked from scratch.
Today, our team of school food changemakers includes school food service professionals with nearly 200 combined years of experience managing school meal programs, chefs, registered dietitians, sustainable agriculture and food systems specialists, public health experts, researchers, policy advocates, parents — and, of course, former kids who relied on school meals.
Since 2009, we’ve collectively advanced one goal: Get schools cooking.