Who We Are
Volunteers
Volunteers
Administration
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Sandrine Hahn, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts – Executive and Creative Director
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Sandrine previously worked as a family therapist, art therapist, teacher, and as an educational therapist in private practice before she established Nourishing Our Children in 2005. Convinced that the children she worked with were well-fed but malnourished, Sandrine closed her private practice to devote herself to the cause of educating and inspiring parents to return to the whole, natural foods that have produced generation after generation of healthy children. She founded the San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation in 2004 and served as the volunteer chapter leader for more than a year. She has also taught Nourishing Traditions and Moroccan cooking classes. Beyond her own visual communication business, she currently serves our cause as both the executive and creative director, in addition to one of our presenters. Sandrine has received an activist award from the Weston A. Price Foundation in 2006 for her leadership role.
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Riki Juster - Director of Operations
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It's no wonder that Riki refers to herself as a "Jane of all Trades": she has done everything from milking sheep at 3:30 in the morning on a kibbutz in Israel to working at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. In addition, she has traveled the world extensively including a 6 month backpacking trip in Asia where she had the privilege of being hosted by families living in remote villages. Riki studied Education at Haifa University for two years and Holistic Nutrition at Bauman College in Berkeley for one year. It was at Bauman where she was introduced to the Weston A. Price Foundation. Riki currently works as a Nanny, as well as a Music Together Teacher. In her spare time, she performs in musical theater. Riki has previously served as our Vice President and Secretary and has represented the campaign at the annual Weston A. Price Foundation conferences.
Presenters
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Suzan Hahn, DDS
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Dr. Suzan Hahn has served as a dentist since graduating from UCSF Dental School in 1984. Approximately fifteen years ago, coincidental with the arrival of the first of her three children, Suzan became deeply interested in alternative health practices. Following this interest Suzan started a masters degree in Integrative Health at the California Institute of Integrative Studies where she discovered the father of biologic dentistry; Weston Price DDS. Her mission is to help people achieve optimal health, which she pursues through dentistry. Biologic/holistic/biocompatible dentistry is her passion. Suzan has enjoyed being a part of the cause since its inception.
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Orna Konig
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Originally from Israel, Orna moved to the United States in 1997 to pursue her engineering career in the exciting Silicone Valley. She received her degree in Computer Science and Psychology at UC Berkeley and started a beautiful family. When Orna experienced minor health issues for which allopathic medicine did not provide any sustainable solutions, she found out about the importance of gut health and the Weston A. Price Foundation. Orna says: “I realized that while technology helps society in so many aspects of life, when it comes to nutrition we should learn most from the wisdom and traditions of our ancestors as they seemed to have found the best way to utilize nature to support superior health.” Orna is now dedicated to spreading the word so that children can grow up healthy and well-nourished.
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Deborah Landowne, MBA, CHom
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Deborah has a Classical Homeopathy practice in San Rafael, California. She received her training in San Francisco at the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy and is a candidate for the CCH credential with the Council for Homeopathic Certification. She is passionate about helping people to heal themselves with homeopathy and believes that a nourishing traditional diet is one of the best ways an individual can complement any healing modality, thereby becoming empowered to improve one’s own health. She feels fortunate to have discovered the work of Dr. Weston A. Price and is excited to share this dietary wisdom and science with others. As a child she learned to eat liver once a week, cook with marrow bones and enjoyed the wonderful taste and health benefits of home made chicken soup!
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Coco O’Donnel, R.PH
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Coco has worked as a pharmacist, in the pharmaceutical industry and as an executive coach and trainer. Her concern regarding the state of the health of the nation (and herself) prompted her to look more deeply into commonly-held perceptions about diet and food. Her own path to healing has been through "food as medicine. " Currently, she is the principal of a health coaching business which works with companies and individuals to achieve vibrant health.
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Lenaya Pongan
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Lenaya has a bachelors degree in biology and completed the Chef Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York, NY. She subsequently interned at Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, where she first experienced the positive effects of eating according to the teachings of Weston A. Price and she spent two years in West Sonoma where she worked as an intern at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, a land and community based environmental education center that boasts the 8th oldest certified organic gardens in California. She has discovered that her passions for the natural world, for health and well-being, and for community is woven together by healing powers of food. She is now living in San Francisco, studying herbal medicine with Kami McBride at the Living Awareness Institute and finding ways to support her community of friends that seem to, overwhelmingly, be in the "starting family" stage of life. Her own recent pregnancy with what will be her first child has sparked an even deeper interest in the work of Nourishing Our Children.
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Masha Rosen, CCH
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Masha, a certified classical homeopath, has a thriving homeopathic family practice in Burlingame and Palo Alto. Masha graduated from the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in San Francisco and was awarded a national certification in classical homeopathy by the Council of Homeopathic Certification. Masha specializes in homeopathic pediatrics and women’s health. She works with children who have asthma, allergies, chronic ear infections, ADD/ADHD, autism, and other complaints. Her other specialization is infertility, hormonal imbalances, endocrine disorders, and digestive problems. Masha integrates Nourishing Traditions nutrition with homeopathy for all of her clients. Masha has two children who love butter, pastured meat, chopped liver, and like to help their mom make sauerkraut every week. Masha grew up in Russia where raw milk, sauerkraut, and chopped liver were dietary staples. It is Masha’s passion to educate parents on how to solve children’s health problems effectively in a natural, gentle, and holistic way.
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Karen Hamilton-Roth, RN
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Karen loves teaching people to become healthy and vibrant using diet and lifestyle modification. She worked with Dr. Thomas Cowan’s (author of The Fourfold Path to Healing) patients for several years, supporting them in implementing his treatment plans. Karen has been a nurse for more than twenty years, having worked both in hospital and private practice settings. She has studied a wide variety of healing modalities. Eating and cooking time-honored foods has helped her greatly in her own healing journey. Karen is passionate about nourishing her husband and teenage son with traditional and delicious food. She is an active member of her local Weston Price chapters (San Francisco and Marin).
Advisors
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Sally Fallon Morell, MA
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Sally Fallon Morell serves as founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. With Mary G. Enig, PhD, she is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. She also serves as the president and owner of New Trends Publishing, which publishes books on diet and health, including The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD; The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid, ND; The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein; The Fourfold Path to Healing by Thomas Cowan, MD; and The Whole Soy Story by Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD. Ms. Fallon's latest book, Eat Fat, Lose Fat (2004, Hudson Street Press), was co-written with Dr. Enig.
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Mario Repetto, MA
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Mario Repetto grew up in Argentina the son of a flour miller in Rosario. He obtained a Master degree in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires School of Science and completed the Doctorate at the School of Biochemistry. He has been a visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Forced to change his path by the military dictators in Argentina, Mario worked in the computer and financial industries in Argentina, Mexico and the US. After a long journey, he was able to reconnect with his roots as owner of Grindstone Bakery in Sonoma, California. Grindstone has recreated ancient traditional methods of bread making, that follow Weston A. Price principles, to produce wheat free and gluten free breads and cookies. His science background combined with his baking experience has allowed him to fully understand the dangers to our health associated with the overdose of gluten typical of our modern industrial food diets.
