CHEF welcomes new board member

The Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation has elected Jennifer Kaufmann to a three-year term on its board of directors.

Kaufmann is a native of Dover, where she graduated from Caesar Rodney High School. She received a degree in mass communication from the University of Delaware. Kaufmann has 21 years of sales and marketing experience with Fortune 500 companies, and helped found and open RISE Fitness Adventure in 2014, where she worked as a trainer for 10 years and a fitness instructor for 15 years.

Kaufmann is currently pursuing a master of social work degree at Walden University with a focus on youth and teens, and will intern at Lewes Elementary School and the Sussex Consortium during the spring and summer. She and her husband have been residents of Lewes since 2007, and her son attends Beacon Middle School.

“Jennifer has strong commitment to the Cape District and will make a great addition to our board,” said Rick Grier-Reynolds, CHEF president. “She has served as a substitute teacher for the Cape district since 2021 and as the president for the Lewes Elementary PTO for three years.”

CHEF has been a nonprofit strategic partner of the Cape Henlopen School District since 2007. For the latest information about how CHEF is providing Cape students in kindergarten through 12th grade with the tools they need to excel in school and life, go to chef-cape-org.