To me, nutrition is the freedom to define health on your own terms, outside of society’s narrow standards. It’s about honoring the depth and complexities of our relationship to food while staying flexible to what the body needs. Sometimes it means less focus on food and more work on sleep, stress, and movement. Ultimately, nutrition should never rip us from joy, from our cultural roots, or feel out of reach because of budget. It should be collaborative, connective, and inclusive.

Working as a Registered Dietitian, I refuse to pretend I’m an all-knowing monk on a misty mountaintop, sitting cross-legged and serene, holding all the answers like a basket of flower petals, ready to sprinkle them on my patients. Practicing nutrition isn’t about me, it’s about the person in front of me. But I do lean on my experiences to stay grounded in the real, often messy and confusing challenges that come with health changes.

Simply put, I’m a human being in a body navigating the changes of life, while spending time holding space, asking questions, sharing tools, and offering suggestions to allow others to do just that. I’ve also been branching out, teaching classes and presentations on how to better understand the body and manage changes without wasting thousands of dollars or losing your damn mind in the meantime. We’re in this together.

Thanks for reading.

As a white, cisgender woman, I recognize that my experiences don’t reflect those of everyone and that medical education has historically and continues to exclude, harm, and marginalize many communities.

I don’t pretend that a single set of nutrition recommendations applies to everyone. I don’t practice with the belief that everyone has to be a specific body size or abandon cultural foods to be healthy. That’s a damaging approach that perpetuates oppression and elevates Eurocentric standards.

Working with a Registered Dietitian should mean receiving unconditional regard for your intersectionality and lived experience. Nutrition recommendations that abruptly disconnect cultural ties or misalign someone’s gender identity are harmful, even traumatic, and leave us far worse off than where we started. Let’s leave that poison in the past.

Whether meeting 1:1 or through workshops, I won’t assume to be an expert on anyone’s culture, lived experience, or center myself. Our nutrition work isn’t about me. Instead, I will apply my expertise in nutrition counseling and cooking to our work together or to your event, with deep respect for you and your community as a whole.

Licensure: Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration

NPI: 1366054710

Dietetic Internship
Bastyr University - Seattle, WA, 2018-2019
- Completed 1,200 hours of supervised practice at Seattle-area hospitals, community clinics, long-term care facilities, and private practices

Master of Science, Nutrition/Didactic Program in Dietetics
Bastyr University - Seattle, WA, 2016-2018
- Completed ACEND-accredited coursework in medical nutrition therapy, nutrition counseling, advanced nutrient metabolism, and pathology, as well as supplements, herbal sciences, and Ayurvedic nutrition
- Gained 90 hours of experience as student clinician at Bastyr Center for Natural Health
- Fulfilled over 300 hours of clinical, community, and food service volunteering

Bachelor of Science, Nutrition & Culinary Arts
Bastyr University - Seattle, WA, 2013-2015
- Completed coursework in biochemistry, nutrient metabolism, food science, culinary foundations, cooking demonstration, herbal sciences, foraging, and ecological nutrition
- Fulfilled 88-hour Culinary Internship in Seattle-area restaurants and culinary teaching institutions

Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts/Studio Arts
Community College of Allegheny County - Pittsburgh, PA, 2007-2011ish
- Completed coursework in English literature, creative writing, ceramics, drawing, human biology, and general chemistry
- Frequently skipped classes to roam Pittsburgh’s North Side, read and write in parks, and meet up with friends to drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes (a regretful habit I have long since quit)