Jameeale Arzeno is a professionally trained Chef who has managed and cooked in fine dining since 1996. She has had an illustrious career, which began with apprenticeship at Le Grand Louvre in Paris, after receiving an Associates in Hospitality Management from New York City College of Technology. She has worked as a pastry chef, manager, and consultant in the New York restaurant scene with internationally known top chefs and consulted on restaurant openings, menu development, and staff cultivation with restaurants in Miami, New York, and San Francisco. Chef Jameeale has taught as an adjunct professor for Monroe College in the Bronx and has been a workshop coordinator speaker and panelist for Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC), which supports food service workers who face workplace injustice, as well as the Start Small Think Big, org. She owns a private catering company and her current passion is  teaching kids to cultivate their inner chef through her organization “CHICpeas, Inc.” She has served as the first Culinary Director of the esteemed James Beard Foundation since October 2018. She is a mother, daughter, a Bronx-NY native and dynamic individual who believes in honesty, transformation, love, and the power of food.