On The Front Lines
attending the business events and encouraging those business officials to attend child-nutrition specific training so that we can all appreciate the work being done on either side of that divide. We are a valuable and vital asset to each school district. We need to project that image of professionalism and business-savvy to our fellow school business officials by being visible to them at business-minded events. Bottom line – seek out the business-focused training available to you whether it is training offered from your state SNA affiliate, the national SNA Training Zone, your local or national ASBO chapter, etc. If you don’t see training to fit your needs, reach out to these organizations and request them. Our future financial success depends on it!
feeling to have. I looked at it as an opportunity to broadcast and speak with as many other school business officials as I could about how all child nutrition departments are a vital piece of the school business puzzle. Attending conferences with other school business officials also offers more unique one-on-one time with your school business officials. At the IASBO conference I was able to have uninterrupted time at dinner with our district Superintendent and Executive Director of Business Services! When else will you get that kind of face-to-face time? I’m lucky that my mentor at work (our Executive Director of Business Services) Alesia Pritchett has attended SNA conferences such as SNIC and ANC. She understands the business side of child nutrition. We need more of that! We need to be
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Christine Clarahan, RD, SNS
Director of Food and Nutrition, School City of Hammond (IN) Christine Clarahan has been a Director for the last 5 years and is the current ISNA President- Elect. She completed her dietetics undergraduate work at Iowa State University and her dietetics internship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. She has her master’s degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Alabama. After completing her dietetics internship, she worked at DuPont Hospital for Children and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as a clinical and outpatient pediatric dietitian prior to moving back to the Midwest to be close to family. Christine is passionate about training/professional development and is always looking for ways to be a better leader for her department. She is a fierce advocate for her department. Christine and her awesome department were featured on the Today Show with Hoda & Jenna in June 2020. Christine was a co-advisor for SNA’s Director’s Best Practices virtual conference in October 2020 and a speaker at the 2019 School Nutrition Association Conference. You can also catch her at this year’s upcoming virtual School Nutrition Association Annual Conference doing a pre-conference session on how to use social media. Her non-work related interests include reading, true crime podcasts, puns, cross-stitching, food- themed earrings, and spoiling her dog Watson.
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