Jeannae Flores
Jeannae is originally from the island of Saipan, Micronesia in the Pacific. She has an M.S in Community Nutrition & Integrative Health, in which she focused on formulating programs designed to empower low-income, under-served communities. Jeannae has managed nutrition education programs in multiple counties in the Washington DC and Baltimore, MD areas, was an Elementary Nutrition Educator for SNAP-Ed , and was an official delegate for the Festival of Pacific Arts, covering all of the Pacific Islands, as a Community Nutritionist in the Traditional Culinary Arts segment representing Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. As a FoodCorps Service Member for a Title 1 elementary school in Big Island, Hawaii she has served as a School Garden & Cooking Teacher, Curriculum Developer, Garden Program Manager, and Grantwriter. Jeannae's personal angle to garden education is a focus on herbalism, incorporating and preserving indigenous & ancestral knowledge through food, herbs and garden-based learning, the gardens as a socio-emotional learning environment, using gardens to teach nutrition and cooking, to teach food systems & food sovereignties, conservation, sustainability & basic academic standards. Connect with Jeannae