Cindy Mojica was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA to a proud immigrant family that has always valued education and hard work – she is the first in her family to receive a college degree in the US and is now pursuing her Masters in Gastronomy at Boston University.

She has over 20 years of food service experience that have ranged from being a server at a tea house, to the sous chef of a bib gourmand restaurant in San Francisco, to teaching at the Le Cordon Bleu – Chicago, to now being a Corporate Innovation Development Chef for Direct Food Service. 

She lives in Chicago with her wife and four cats. Her hobbies included taxidermy, travelling, reading comic books, and bowling.

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child