My path has been circuitous, but it has always included food. I taught English in a small city in Central Japan, and wrote weekly reviews of Japanese candy. I was a personal chef for a family in Malibu. I coached BIPOC food entrepreneurs in New Orleans, and ran a program that helped corner stores in low-income neighborhoods sell more fruits and vegetables. I worked with chef Tunde Wey on a social experiment that charged white diners almost three times more than diners of color for the same lunch. At one point I studied global food security from an old convent in Italy, and ate so much pasta. I also have an undergraduate degree in film, which was perfectly useless when I returned to school to become a dietitian.

You can read more about my journey to becoming a dietitian here: How I Became an Antiracist Dietitian.

I bring my wide-ranging and nonlinear experience to my perspective on food and nutrition, and to my writing. I currently live in Denver, Colorado with my husband and two children.