Christine Ha

Christine Ha is a three-time James Beard Award Nominated Chef, bestselling author, restaurant owner, and the first-ever blind contestant and season 3 winner of the televised cooking competition show MasterChef. Ha was a co-host on the Canadian cooking show “Four Senses,” a judge on “MasterChef” Vietnam (Season 3), and a guest judge on several seasons of MasterChef US. She has spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations, and served as a culinary arts envoy overseas for the American Embassy as part of cultural diplomacy programs in Jordan, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Vietnam. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Helen Keller International, a global non-profit that helps millions of people achieve clear vision, sound nutrition, and good health. Ha holds a Master of Fine Arts from the nationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at University of Houston.