Lisa is an award-winning raw food chef (Best of Raw NYC 2010) and certified Green Chef Instructor and caterer through Greenivore. Lisa enjoys promoting the concept of “joyful eating” and has been conducting living foods preparation and vegan cooking classes through her company Holistic Therapeutic Care in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past eight years. Lisa developed her own line of raw vegan dehydrated snack foods and plans to release her cook and un-cook books in 2013.
Lisa founded the Tri-Valley Vegetarian Society and hosts regular potlucks and events. Lisa has presented at Wellness Central, SF Living Foods, Earth Day SF, Palo Alto Wellness Festival, Marin Raw Foods and Vibrant Living Meet-Up, East Bay Eco Health Network, the Raw Health Expo and World Veg Day Festivals to name a few and catered the raw vegan dinner at the festival in 2010 and 2011. Lisa will be a featured presenter at the Raw Living Expo in Sedona, AZ and Berkeley Vegan Earth Day in 2013.
Lisa Currently teaches plant-based cooking and Food Preparation classes for Kaiser Permanente and has taught patients and staff at the VA and Laguna Honda Hospitals how to prepare health promoting vegan foods.
Additionally, Lisa is a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and brings therapeutic vegan cooking classes and raw/”live” food preparation classes to persons with disabilities in institutionalized care and at-risk youth.
