My driving motivation is to be an agent for health and healing. I’m a Certified Nutrition Specialist with a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health from the Maryland University of Integrative Health where I teach culinary nutrition and life cycle nutrition. I consider myself a practitioner-researcher with a particular focus on exploring the evolution of personalized nutrition as a field, clinical approach, and profession. My interests center around how systems, people, and meaning intersect to drive whole-person and community health through the foods we eat and our daily choices. Away from my desk I am yoga teacher, coffee aficionado, avid gardener, and mom of two.