i'm not afraid anymore

Cecilia Campbell is the eldest of four daughters, born to Jean-Marie and Lafayette Campbell. I'll be sending in a wc for her sisters soon and will put the link here once it is!! UPDATE: wc linked here.

She's always loved cooking and learned the art from her father, who taught her basically everything she knows (or at least the most important stuff -- that food itself is a love language -- while culinary school taught her the rest).

She was born and raised in New Orleans. She was just about to start culinary school in Baton Rouge when they unfortunately lost their home and her father during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She put culinary school on hold and moved out west with her mother and sisters, settling in the suburbs outside of LA, where she basically raised her sisters as her mother grieved.

Once the last one graduated from high school, she decided to pursue culinary school again, this time completing and immediately starting to work within the kitchen of multiple restaurants throughout the city with the hope of someday opening her own place.