Sam Kass
| Sam Kass | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Samuel David Kass 1980 (age 36–37) |
| Residence | Long Island, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education |
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Kansas City Kansas Community College Triton College |
| Alma mater | AB University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Chef, Nutrition Policy Consultant |
| Known for | White House Chef White House Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy Executive Director, Let's Move! |
| Spouse(s) | Alex Wagner (m. 2014) |
| Parent(s) | Valentine Hertz Kass Robert Kass |
| Family | Helen Valentine (great-grandmother) |
Samuel David Kass (born 1980) worked at the White House from January 20, 2009 to December 19, 2014, and during this period served as President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy, as Executive Director for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, and as an Assistant Chef. The White House announced his departure on December 8, 2014. On July 29, 2015, NBC News announced the appointment of Kass as a senior food analyst, charged with covering topics such as healthful eating, food trends and policy on all platforms of NBC News.
Kass grew up in a Jewish family in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His father, Robert, was a teacher at the private, co-ed University of Chicago Laboratory Schools ("Lab Schools") who taught President Obama's daughter Malia Obama in the 5th grade; Kass's mother, Valentine (née Hertz), is a science educator at the National Science Foundation and previously served as the director of Omnimax productions at the Museum of Science and Industry. His maternal great-grandmother, Helen Valentine, founded Seventeen magazine.
Kass attended high school at the Lab Schools, where he was on the varsity baseball team, and graduated in 1998. He played baseball as a center fielder on a scholarship at Kansas City Kansas Community College and later transferred to Triton College. He graduated with an AB in history in 2004 from the University of Chicago, where he also played NCAA Division III baseball as a right fielder with a career .366 batting average, ranking among the best in program history.
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