Faculty Highlights

As active professionals, the full-time and adjunct culinary arts faculties bring practical and current experience to the classroom. The full-time faculty includes the following:

• Charles Ziccardi, has held a number of chef positions in the Philadelphia area, Colorado, and Italy . He has worked under some world-renowned chefs, including Jean-Marie Lacroix, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, and Jean-Francois Taquet of Restaurant Taquet.

• Donna Maguire, M.P.S., whose Drexel career began in 1992, has worked with the Hershey Corporation and founded her own catering company in Philadelphia .

• Adrienne Hall has spent nearly 20 years working in many facets of the hospitality industry including serving as a pastry chef, executive chef, and culinary consultant in various operations in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.