Everyone deserves the right to good health.
My Philosophy
It is my belief that food is nurturing as well as fulfilling. It is the sole connection the entire world shares with one another, despite cultural or regional differences. The way we nourish our bodies has an impact on our bodies, but also on our minds and behaviors.
Helping others understand what food means to them is my sole ambition as I try out new career paths and titles.
We all have to eat, after all.
It is my belief that food is nurturing as well as fulfilling. It is the sole connection the entire world shares with one another, despite cultural or regional differences. The way we nourish our bodies has an impact on our bodies, but also on our minds and behaviors.
Helping others understand what food means to them is my sole ambition as I try out new career paths and titles.
We all have to eat, after all.
My Journey
My desire to learn nutrition originally stemmed from a need to take care of my family's children. I did not feel the pull of a medical degree to treat people once they were sick; instead, I wanted to have an impact on their health before the illness set in. Clinical nutrition was the right pull for me at the time, which then expanded to maternal health, and finally to disease management and community health after two years in the hospital setting and two years in graduate school.
My own health journey has brought me to the conclusion that nutrition was the right call. Without it, I do not believe I would be as successful in managing my own type 1 diabetes. Nutrition information should be available to all, and I want to help shorten that gap and help others who may need the information on their health journeys. Everyone should have the ability to adapt well to their new lifestyles.
My desire to learn nutrition originally stemmed from a need to take care of my family's children. I did not feel the pull of a medical degree to treat people once they were sick; instead, I wanted to have an impact on their health before the illness set in. Clinical nutrition was the right pull for me at the time, which then expanded to maternal health, and finally to disease management and community health after two years in the hospital setting and two years in graduate school.
My own health journey has brought me to the conclusion that nutrition was the right call. Without it, I do not believe I would be as successful in managing my own type 1 diabetes. Nutrition information should be available to all, and I want to help shorten that gap and help others who may need the information on their health journeys. Everyone should have the ability to adapt well to their new lifestyles.
My Education.
Dietetic Internship
University of Maryland, College Park
The unique emphasis of University of Maryland's DI is information management. With this specialty, I've looked into how to introduce knowledge to the general population and to individual clients using technological resources.
MPH Maternal and Child Health
The George Washington University
I spent two years specializing my MPH to address nutrition and wellness within the maternal health population. I dedicated my thesis to design a resource for South Asian women, a population at higher risk for gestational diabetes, that could be used as a preventative measure with an emphasis on culture and health literacy.
BS Clinical Nutrition
University of California, Davis
It took five years, but after grueling work in the physical and biological sciences, I learned everything I could about nutrition and food science and what it does to our bodies. My favorite project out of my undergrad was a 68 page paper explaining food science and nutrition to the layperson as an effort to show my grandparents what my degree entailed.
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YOUR PASSIONS
It's important to recognize what makes us tick. The internal clock that runs our life sometimes runs out of batteries, and it's important to recharge every now and then. We cannot slow the passage of time, but we can always give more to the things we love.
For me, it's backpacking. Escaping into the California wilderness to see things only a handful of people will ever see. I have to adapt to the newness of my condition so that I can continue to go where I wish.
