Transforming Lives Through Integrative Nutrition

It is palpably evident, today, that most people in the modern world are hungry for change in some way. I believe our planet is starving for a paradigm shift toward peace and justice that can only be satiated on a spiritual level. One of the most important realizations I’ve made in my professional life is the undeniable power of our plate and its universal relevance for all aspects of a thriving life. The way we eat and live influences every movement in our body and every decision that we make. Food affects how we function and how we feel.

I advocate that reeducation about food and lifestyle can help generate optimal health for our collective flourishing. My life's work is about normalizing health through the tenets of integrative nutrition (how we eat and live) and encouraging a plant-based life to ignite our corporal (gut body/ethos), mental (brain-body/logos), and emotional (heart body/pathos) well-being, individually and collectively. Integrative nutrition can help us deepen our relationship with creation and inspire spiritual reconciliation.

This is a personal and public narrative of my life story where I share the wisdom I’ve acquired through my journey of understanding what plant-based living provides. I hope you will consume this work as you would a meal, allowing my journey to sit within you to integrate with your own life story. This is intended to be consumed as a spiritual tool to inspire hope within.

This theology is a pluralist treatise of environmental, economic, and political, values combined with faith-based spirituality to promote holistic health individually and collectively.

This website is a digital library and collective resource as an advocacy and activism portal for:

  • Culinary and integrative health education and creative spiritual media
  • Professional and personal development
  • Cross-brand promotions for brand ambassadorship and brand alignment representation
  • Corporate consulting and full-range production offered (for any size group or offering)
  • Individual and group coaching
  • All edutainment opportunities
  • Wellness collaborations
  • Home set-up, design, consultation
  • Retreats and eco-living, cooking, working opportunities
  • Sound bath healing, meditation and prayer workshops, reiki, and somatic movement and music therapy

Together we serve local, national, and international markets worldwide and counting!

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Education + Awards

Graduate Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - Harvard Divinity School, MRPL degree: Master of Religion and Public Life (May 2024 no expiration date)
CeDiD: 24B6-ZOHN-DVO4DA

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Undergraduate Education

  • Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York, NY - Health Coach Certification & Distinguished Student Leadership Award
  • The French Culinary Institute, New York, NY - Classic Culinary Arts Grand Diploma Honors & Friends of FCI Scholarship Award
  • DePaul University, Chicago, IL - B.A. Int'l Studies, and Food & Culture (designed this curriculum and concentration) & Society Honors, Social Justice Outreach: Ecuador & Arizona
  • Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina - International Study Abroad Program

Professional Certifications:

  • Integrative Health Practitioner
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
  • Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS)
  • Life + Relationship Coach
  • Reiki Certification

Classically trained chef and Harvard seminary scholar, healer, speaker, teacher

From the Institute for Integrative Nutrition

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach (INHC)

Issued by Institute for Integrative Nutrition:

This badge designates that its holder has graduated from Integrative Nutrition's Health Coach Training Program. They have demonstrated an ability to understand and utilize a wide range of dietary and nutrition theories, as well as develop business and coaching skills to practice in a variety of settings. They have been trained to educate and guide clients to make behavioral changes resulting in improved nutrition, dietary habits, and physical ability, and overall greater health and wellness.

Issued on November 12, 2019

Gut Health Course

Issued by Institute for Integrative Nutrition:

This badge designates that its holder has graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s (IIN) Gut Health Course. IIN Health Coaches who graduate from the course have demonstrated an understanding of what constitutes a healthy and balanced gut microbiome, the ways that this system may become unhealthy and imbalanced, how they can support their clients’ efforts to foster a healthy gut through various nutrition and lifestyle modifications, and their scope of practice as a health coach.

Issued on September 16, 2020

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