Ames Bottema

Soup's On Director

 Ames is a 40 yr old trans man who was born and raised in Indianapolis. He has spent time living in Chicago, as well as Fort Wayne, IN. Ames lives in Fountain Square in the home he grew up in as Indy will always be home.

Ames has always loved cooking, though he is not classically trained, he has always loved bringing joy to people by cooking for them. Which is why we are proud to have Ames as our Soup’s On director! Ames has worked at Robert Parks for the past few years in the AV department, and has been active with Kaleidescope since it's beginning.



Ames and his wife have been together for 10 years, and they have a Great Dane named Ace, and several cats. Ames loves coffee, and you will rarely see him without one on Sunday Mornings.