Lesa Spears is the ProStart/ Culinary Arts Instructor at ACT. She has been a teacher for twenty-five years in Raleigh County in Family and Consumer Sciences at both the middle school and high school levels. Lesa received her bachelor’s degree in FACS from West Virginia University and is currently working on her graduate education degree at Grand Canyon University. Lesa was the first WV ProStart teacher to receive her Certified Secondary Foodservice Educator Certificate from the National Restaurant Association and also served as the ProStart teacher of the year for 2008. A lifelong resident of Raleigh County is also the parent of Valerie Spears a graduate of Marshall University. Her interests include cooking, reading, knitting, and taking care of her new puppy Turner Aragon McTavish – a West Highland Terrier.