MasterChef Winner Christine Ha:Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics

6024 Bishop Boulevard,Dallas TX 75205

25 October, 2021

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2021 Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics, presented by the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Delta Gamma and the SMU Maguire Ethics Center While Christine Ha is known for being the first-ever blind contestant and season three winner of the competitive amateur cooking television show MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay, she serves as an exemplary model of ethics as well. Christine connects with others through her love of words and food. Christine’s vision loss did not begin until she was 20 years old – just around the time she was discovering her love of cooking. After losing her mother to cancer when Christine was only 14 years old, she set out to re-create her mother’s traditional Vietnamese recipes that were lost after her death using cookbooks, her father’s memories, and her own exceptional sense of taste. Having pursued her dreams of inspiring others through her passion for writing and cooking while still a student, Christine serves as an ethical model for the women of Delta Gamma, the SMU student body, and the broader SMU community. Christine's story highlights the valuable contributions which students can make to the world, and her recognition from United nations as a disability advocate, the recipient of the 2014 Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, and role as a culinary envoy overseas for the American Embassy as part of cultural diplomacy programs in Jordan, Serbia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Croatia confirm her importance as a female inspiration and social justice advocate.