Thanks a lot to Tallahassee Group Faculty for honoring me, on behalf of Tallahassee Foodies, for Women’s History Month. This 12 months’s theme, Essential Women.
In the present day we rejoice Jennifer Leale! Jennifer Leale was raised in Georgia and moved to Tallahassee to attend Florida State College the place she earned her grasp’s diploma in data know-how administration. Throughout this time she fell in love with the realm and determined to remain. Whereas she presently works for FSU Info Know-how Providers as a customized internet functions developer, Jennifer might be finest identified on this space for her work with Tallahassee Foodies.
Jennifer created the Fb group just a little over two years in the past with the hope she may keep involved with a few of her lunch buddies after she modified jobs and would study just a little extra about what Tallahassee needed to supply. Since that point the group membership has grown to 26,000 members with a crew of 6 admins and a pair of interns, all working to teach neighborhood members about what Tallahassee has to supply. Jennifer’s positivity, management and love of neighborhood have sparked financial boosts for a lot of eating places, thus serving to many native companies keep afloat by means of the pandemic.
Jennifer and her employees rapidly realized the pandemic was going to be powerful on many native locations and labored arduous to search out methods to assist, together with beginning the weekly Tallahassee Restaurant Blitz highlighting six completely different eating places each week with buyer incentives like reductions or meal offers. A number of companies credit score the group for maintaining them in enterprise in 2020.
Moreover, Jennifer and Tallahassee Foodies assist to help Satisfaction Months and Black-owned companies. The group made the entrance web page of the Tallahassee Democrat on Juneteenth for a member-generated listing of Black-owned eating places that went viral, sending an enormous enhance of enterprise to those meals institutions. These efforts even gained nationwide consideration from the In the present day Present, who flew a crew to Tallahassee to characteristic Tallahassee Foodies for his or her help of Black-owned companies, highlighting the group’s story on Gurlies Sweets and Treats.
Her dedication to her neighborhood and its folks make Jennifer worthy of the title “important girl.”
Thanks a lot to all the TCC Women’s History Month crew, together with Tallahassee Foodies members Jarrett Phipps and Heather Mitchell, for not solely honoring us, however spoiling us with a ravishing award, and a few tasty treats from Say Cheese Tally and Au Peche Mignon. Be happy to observe all 10 honorees at this years TCC Women’s History Month digital ceremony.
