About Mary

Here’s the skinny on my creds…

I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) with a Masters in Clinical Nutrition (MS) from Bastyr University. I have almost 15 years of professional nutrition experience: counseling 1-on-1 with an integrative and functional medicine approach, presenting at numerous national conferences, designing courses, speaking to groups, writing articles, and training other professionals. All this in clinics, at corporations, in colleges & universities, in a nutrition textbook, via online webinars, in magazines, on the radio, and on TV.

I also am an expert in sustainable food systems and their connection to the environment, climate and human health.  In particular I have been focused on championing the role that dietitians, healthcare practitioners and food industry leaders can play in advocating for sustainability, resilience and equity in the food and agriculture system.   I also help individuals and organizations to connect and network, build community and create partnerships in order to support human and planetary health.

Currently, I am:

• Adjunct Faculty (since 2015) at Bastyr University,  currently teaching  Sustainable Food Systems, Environment and Human Health and formerly taught Human Nutrition to both nutrition and medical students.
• Adjunct Faculty at The Culinary Institute of America, developing and teaching “Sustainable Diets and Public Health”
• Speaker/Guest Lecturer regularly presenting nutrition and sustainability-focused webinars and in-person lectures and at conferences for nutrition and healthcare professionals and dietetic students/interns all over the country.
• Nutrition and Sustainability Adviser for ​Big Bold Health, a food-as-medicine platform company providing immune solutions for the 21st century connecting people and planet.
• Coach and Instructor of the Master Class “Sustainable Diets: Eating for a 1.5 Degree world” with UK-Based Future Food Movement
• Director of Education for The Planetary Health Collective,  a movement leveraging the skillsets and experience of Nutrition Professionals in the movement to mitigate the  climate crisis
• Podcast Host of “The Nutrition Show” Podcast and Web series (formerly “Mary’s Nutrition Show”) and “The Good Clean Nutrition Podcast” sponsored by Orgain.
• Faculty/Instructor at Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy and online education platforms Dietitian Central and Catalyst
• Contributing author of Krause’s Food & The Nutrition Care Process
• Author of the Books “The Microbiome Reset Diet” and “Serving the Broccoli Gods”
• Governing Council Member of CORA: The Coalition for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture.

Past experience:

• Clinical Education Lead & Coach at the Scientific Wellness company, Arivale in Seattle (2015-2019)
• Private Practice in Seattle, WA (Nourishing Balance), 8 years (2007-2015)
• Clinical Supervisor/Faculty at Bastyr Center for Natural Health’s Teaching Clinic, (2010-2015)
• Faculty for The Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Fellowship, creating and facilitating the course “Human Nutrition”
• Nutrition Director for the Kris Carr Inner Circle  Wellness Online community responding to nutrition questions and creating monthly videos on a variety of nutrition-related topics. (2020-2022)
• Consultant and Active Committee/Steering Committee Member with numerous organizations such as:
  • Global Meatless Mondays Platform
  • Food and Climate Alliance
  • Sustainable Food Systems Subunit of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group
  • Food Justice Project  with the Community Alliance for Global Justice
  • Health and Climate Crisis Committee at Bastyr University
• Past Chair;  Environment and Nutrition Chair of The  Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine a dietetic practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with 5000+ members
• New Member Chair of The Hunger and Environmental Nutrition dietetic practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with 1200+ members
• Clinical Dietitian at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 2 years (2008-2010)
• Past Board Member and President of the Greater Seattle Dietetic Association. (2006-2011)
• Please see my Linked In Profile for more detailed information