11th & 12th Biology, Environmental Systems and Society Teacher in Chicago, IL
Prosser Career Academy
2025-26 Fellow: Marnie Ware has been teaching science for 22 years. She can also teach art if you ask her nicely. She first became interested in the Pilot Light Fellowship when a friend told her about it. She is looking forward to sharing ideas about how growing and cooking food are integral and crucial to a rigorous education and for a sustainable future.
Favorite Food Education Standard: FES #1 – Food connects us to each other and #7 – We can advocate for food choices and changes that impact ourselves, our communities, and our world.
Connection is the most important aspect of the next 10-15 years for society. We need to be in the actual presence of one another, not connected by screens, as AI becomes more powerful. Also, our industrial food complex is doomed, and people MUST learn how to produce food in a more plant based and hyper-local way for the sake of the planet.
A Favorite Food Memory or Recipe:
I remember the first time I learned that purslane is also called verdo lagas, and that it is a “super food” from the Central American women in our community garden. That’s a great memory. Also, everything elderberry.
What I’m Most Excited About as a New Fellow:
I am excited to learn from others about what they do, as well as how they approach the stagnant and horrible lunchroom/ prison food culture of their schools.
