“I was first exposed to the concept of community nutrition at NYU by my Professor Michelle Futrell, a Black dietitian who had a profound effect on my life as a professional role model, because representation matters and as a person, because she was tough but kind. She taught me about giving back to the community through my work. Because of her influence, my first job out of graduate school was working with WIC at Betances Health Center, a FQHC, serving low-income, ethnically diverse families on the Lower East Side. I would stay in that role for four years. I continued to seek out ways to address the needs of the communities I served in Bed Stuy and Harlem by building chronic disease management programs. I have recently moved out of the nonprofit space, having spent 7 years at City Health Works as its Chief Health Officer into the health tech space as the VP of Clinical Operations at One Drop. In my journey, one thing has been my guiding principle, to continue to impact communities, far and wide, by helping as many people with chronic conditions as effectively and efficiently as I can.”