Food for Thought Winter 2023

MEET YOUR 2022-2023 ISNA executive board

Betty Huddleston, Region 6 Representative Western Wayne Schools

Betty Huddleston is the Region 6 Representative as well as the Food Service Director for Western Wayne Schools in Cambridge City. Betty began working in the school cafeteria because the hours were great with 2 kids in school at the time. She came to love it very quickly! The middle school in Betty’s first district was one of the pilot schools for the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program several years ago. Betty has been a member of ISNA for 22 years and has attended several ISNA conferences and workshops. She looks forward to meeting and networking with all ISNA members. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and going on day trips with her husband of 42 years, David. Betty’s other interest include competing at the Indiana State Fair in the Culinary, Antiques and the Photo categories plus adding to her cookbook collection.

Daniel Williams , Region 9 Representative Mooresville Schools

Daniel Williams is the Food Services Director for Mooresville Schools. He has been a 10-year member of the Indiana School Nutrition Association. He is a 2022 graduate of the ISNA/IDOE school nutrition certificate program. Furthermore, he has been on the board of Board of Directors for the West Indy Coop for over eight years.. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and has worked as a K-12 Food Services Director for 10 years. Prior to his experience in child nutrition, he spent over 13 years in both chain and independent restaurant management. Any given evening or weekend, you can find Daniel and his wife Ashley cheering on their two kids at sporting events. He enjoys attending SNA and ISNA events and is excited to be the Region 9 representative for ISNA.

Christie White, Industry Committee Chair What’s 4 Lunch

Christie White is the owner of What’s 4 Lunch Specialized K12 Kitchen Training. Christie began this journey as a K12 Equipment Rep over 7 years ago. She saw an incredible need for filling the kitchen training gap in K12. Over time, she diligently learned how programs operate, collaborated with K12 Food Mfg. to learn specifics of the food, spent time in kitchens learning, observed, and worked alongside to understand “their world”. She launched What’s 4 Lunch in 2021. She understands and operates most MFG equipment, new and old, knowing where it all fits in a program with the menu in mind. She has trained in 35+ programs in 10 states. She understands the pain points and works diligently to help any program she can. She is improving efficiency of kitchen operations, teaching proper processes of a commercial kitchen, seeing quality improvements that are leading to growth of a program and increased participation. Christie is an advocate of School Nutrition anywhere the opportunity arises. She is passionate about empowering staff with seeing change positively in order to better their everyday job and produce quality food so children everywhere will be fed. She is Chair of Indiana IAC, CHARGES THE HILL at LAC, and teaches education classes for State SNA Conferences. Changing the stigma of school lunch, helping amazing teams that do it, along with feeding more kids everywhere is what Christie strives to do each day. Outside of a school kitchen Christie enjoys being a Mom to 2 boys living their best life in college, spending time and laughing with family and friends, cheering on the Boilermakers, going on adventures, and decorating.

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