My Favorite Recipes: Meet Helena Johnson, Colfax

Johnson family summer hike up to Colchuck Lake in the Cascades near Leavenworth; if you go, beware of mountain goats! Nicholas missed the hike because of a summer internship. Connor, Aaron and Helena Johnson.

Helena Johnson has the perfect credentials to be mentoring a robotics team–she is a chemical engineer, and her mechanical engineer husband, Aaron, works with her. Her father was a petroleum engineer, so the engineering gene seems to exist.

Helena’s parents both immigrated from Colombia, South America, and met in the United States. Her father graduated from the University of Texas in chemi...