Ralph J. Bunche Academy

Chef David Isenberg

Chef David Isenberg came to work for the Oakland Unified School District in 2016. He joined the team at the Ralph J. Bunche Academy as Culinary Program Director. Bunche is the only school to have a culinary program in the OUSD. The program is growing quickly and has generated a tremendous amount of excitement on the campus. The current plans call for a complete commercial kitchen to be built by the Spring of 2019. This kitchen will provide a restaurant environment where students will be cooking breakfast and lunch for the entire campus with catering services to follow.

Chef David has owned his own catering company, and has worked in several restaurants and country clubs in the Bay Area, and has been teaching for the past 15 years at Le Cordon Bleu, San Francisco. A native of Dallas, Texas with 20 years in the broadcasting industry, Chef David brings a dynamic combination of business and culinary experience to his teaching. Named Chef Instructor of the Year for HRM in 2006 and was named 2008 L' Esprit D' Excellence award winner by Le Cordon Bleu North America.

Chef David notes that he absolutely loves teaching with nothing bringing him greater satisfaction than helping a student understand a concept and then watching him/her put it into use.

Education includes; AOS degree in Culinary Arts form California Culinary Academy, a bachelor’s degree in Culinary Management from Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts, and a CTE teaching credential from UC Berkeley.

OUSD NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT: OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA, 94607, or via telephone 510-879-4281.

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