University Housing Services is excited to announce celebrated chef Christine Ha as its special guest for the Asian and Disability Awareness Cultural Dinner on Monday, April 1, 2024, at 5 p.m. in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center.
Ha is a cook who is blind. She won the third season of MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay. Her first cookbook, Recipes from My Home Kitchen, was a New York Times bestseller. She has spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations, served as a culinary arts envoy overseas for the American Embassy, and was a co-host on the Canadian cooking show Four Senses and a judge on MasterChef Vietnam.
Event Management, Dining, and Hospitality will cater the dinner featuring a variety of Asian cuisine. Tickets for the dinner are available online for $25. Meal plan holders may use a meal swipe to make a reservation in exchange for one meal. Tickets will be available until March 21 or until sold out.
A highly accomplished cook, Ha received the 2014 Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, a recognition formerly bestowed upon Ray Charles, Patty Duke, and Stevie Wonder among others.
Ha holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston’s creative writing program, where she served as fiction editor for Gulf Coast literary journal, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
The Asian and Disability Awareness Cultural Dinner is co-sponsored by University Housing Services; Event Management, Dining, and Hospitality; Association of Residence Halls; and Student Access and Accommodation Services.
If you need an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact University Housing Services at (309) 438-8611 or HousingCulturalDinners@IllinoisState.edu. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.
