Jenifer Murray, CCP

Jenifer Murray, CCP, received her BA in Social Work from Eastern Connecticut State University.  She enrolled in the Professional Chef’s Program at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts after concluding that her true passion was food; however, she has managed to combine the two by teaching cooking classes to teenage girls who have been placed in group homes or juvenile detention.  Upon graduating in 2002 she went on to receive her Certified Culinary Professional certificate from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).  Immediately, she began to assist the baking portion of the curricul within the Professional Chef’s Program for several semesters and became a personal chef for a family of 4 in Brookline.  Several months later she began to teach within the Recreational Program at the CSCA.  She currently owns The Urban Chef, Inc., and caters for various events including in-home culinary classes as well as commercial shoots for Talbots, Comcast, Boston Market, and Hood.  Jenifer is also the Career Development Coordinator in the Placement Office at the school. Her favorite classes to teach are South of the Border and Sassy, Saucy, Salsa as she loves Mexican and Southwestern cuisine.