| Where are you from? | Oak Park, IL |
| What did you study? | Nutrition and Dietetics at Dominican University. Also, Health Promotion and Journalism for two years at the University of Iowa. |
| Name the moment that inspired you to take your career path. | In high school, I was discussing food and its’ impact on our lives with my favorite English teacher. He gave me a book from his wife’s shelf called “When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair.” His wife is a Registered Dietitian who became my mentor in pursuing a career as an RD. We still talk today and that’s my favorite book. |
| What do you specialize in? | Community and pediatric nutrition. |
| Coffee or Tea? | Coffee. |
| Favorite therapeutic swing? | Rainbow. |
| What you do consider your greatest accomplishment? | Writing and directing a digital story about dietitians in Chicago and their experience working in low income neighborhoods. I presented it at the 6th annual Critical Dietetics Conference in Granada Spain September, 2016. |
| Books or Movies? | Movies |
| Where would you go on your dream vacation? | Doctor Who and Harry Potter walking tour in London UK, expenses paid for. |
| What is your favorite children’s song? | Tongo – Kindermusik. |
| What skill are you most proud of? | Reciting full movies start to finish. |
| Winter or Summer? | Winter (but it could be the comfy sweater I’m wearing talking). |
