Mimi Picotte is a self-employed personal chef in the greater Boston area. She is a graduate of Villanova University and received high honors from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Porter Square. She has been an enthusiastic participant in charitable organizations since her time as an undergraduate student, where she volunteered with the graduate law school as an English to Spanish translator at their free tax clinic as well as spent time working with underprivileged children in west Philadelphia. She actively attends her local city planning and neighborhood association meetings and invests in a charitable fund with the Boston Foundation. She has lived in Boston for 9 years and owned a home in South Boston with her husband for 4 years, and she loves the community she has found here.