Get to Know Us: Elianna Bootzin, School Pantry Coordinator
Q: What brought you to Feeding America West Michigan?
A: John Arnold. I had just finished college and was looking for a job. John was the father of a friend and had an office full of news articles and reports that he needed someone to read through, sort and file for him. It was a match made in heaven.
Q: What is your favorite part of your job?
A: I'm an introvert, so it's really nice to have regularly scheduled "alone" time in the kitchen preparing the samples of fruit or veggie-centric dishes for our school and senior sites.
Q: When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: All kinds of things! In elementary school, I started ballet lessons so someday I'd be ready to play Christine in The Phantom of the Opera. In middle school, I wanted to be a marine biologist so I could hang out with dolphins.
Q: What is your favorite hobby outside of work?
A: That's tough! I would have to say reading or theatre. Or maybe gardening.
Q: What is a place you would like to visit that you've never been?
A: I want to take a train trip out West to Glacier National Park in Montana, then Portland or Seattle.
Q: What is one fact about yourself a lot of people do not know?
A: Even though I am entirely appropriate at work, I really like swearing!