Christine Hà
Christine Huyen Tran Ha (born May 9, 1979) is an American chef, writer and TV host. She is the first blind contestant of MasterChef and the winner of its third season in 2012. Ha suffers from neuromyelitis optica, in which a person’s own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord.
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Christine Huyen Tran Ha (born May 9, 1979) is an American chef, writer and TV host. She is the first blind contestant of MasterChef and the winner of its third season in 2012. Ha suffers from neuromyelitis optica, in which a person’s own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord. In 2013, Ha began co-hosting the Canadian TV show Four Senses with Carl Heinrich. In 2015, she revealed on her blog and Facebook page that she would become a judge on the third season of Masterchef Vietnam, having been a guest judge in the previous series.
She has also served as a culinary envoy on behalf of the American Embassy in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Jordan. She was revealed as the first chef to win the Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award in 2014, an award given to outstanding people and organizations that improve quality of life for people with vision loss. Past winners have included musicians Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Charlie Cox.
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