Board of Directors

Supporters

Sandrine Hahn, BFA, MA, President, Treasurer, Visual Designer, Photographer and Presenter

Sandrine Hahn, now an award winning activist, previously served in the capacity of marriage, family therapist, art therapist, teacher, and as a learning specialist in private practice before establishing the Nourishing Our Children campaign 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 WAPF in 2004 and served as the volunteer chapter leader for more than a year. She continues to serve the local chapter as a steering committee member. She also teaches Nourishing Traditions foundational and Moroccan cooking classes. She is joined by a larger community of supporters and committed volunteers.

Riki Juster, Vice President, Secretary

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 (where she lived for 21 years) to working at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. While she remains in the event industry, her time is mainly occupied by her nanny job in Oakland where she cares for 2 toddlers. 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 at Haifa University for two years where she majored in Education and recently studied Holistic Nutrition at Bauman College in Berkeley for one year.

Presenters and Outreach Coordinators

Rebecca Alonzi, Presenter

Rebecca is a personal chef, with a twist. Her background includes caring for children and families as a nanny for some 8 years, as well as a career in the food industry whereby she worked at several fine restaurants in San Francisco while completing college level classes in culinary arts. She currently serves as a personal chef and household manager for a busy family in Pacifica. Rebecca has been following Nourishing Traditional principles since 2005 and takes pleasure in educating and preparing nutrient dense food on a daily basis for two growing children and their parents. She also runs a small, sustainable-minded catering company and cooks as a chef for "Cook the Vote" – a political supper club. She is the owner and creator of Becca Barz, a whole food nutrition bar made with coconut oil and soaked nuts. When she isn't in the kitchen, Rebecca enjoys swing dancing and art deco fashion.

Aimee deLongchamp, Outreach Coordinator

Aimée deLongchamp works as a textile and children’s product designer known for her fun and whimsical style that can be seen in many of the best-selling products of nationally known retailers such as Pottery Barn Kids and Baby Gap. She first learned about the work of Weston Price three years ago when looking for alternative healing practices to help her daughter, who was diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder and had many food sensitivities. When Aimée began following a special diet designed for optimal nutrition and efficient digestion based on nourishing traditional principles, her daughter's food issues soon abated. This dietary shift helped to heal her daughter's gut (often one of the weak areas of the body for people with autism) and has contributed to remarkable improvements in her daughter's health and well-being. Aimée currently serves on the steering committee for the San Francisco chapter of the WAPF and partners with Marin Organic to organize farm tours for her local community.

Laura Ciapponi, Nourishing The Whole, Presenter

Laura serves a Certified Natural Chef, Certified Nutrition Educator and Certified Yoga Teacher. She is also trained in herbalism. A passion for local, organic, seasonal and traditional foods combined with treating imbalances is the basis of the business Nourishing the Whole, founded in 2005. She did her studies at Bauman College in Berkeley, and Ballymaloe Cookery School in Europe. In addition to her commitment and involvement in Nourishing Traditional principals, Laura also works as a photographer. She is a graduate of California College of the Arts, in Oakland (CCAC before they dropped the Crafts). Presently she is shooting for Getty Images, Jupiter Images, UpperCut, and editorially for magazines.

Daniela Freda, L.Ac, Presenter

Daniela is a California Licensed Acupuncturist who graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She currently has a thriving practice in the Castro district of San Francisco integrating nutrition with acupuncture and herbs. Viewing food as medicine, she integrates Nourishing Traditions nutritional principles along with Traditional Chinese medicinal principles to create an individualized treatment plan for healing a number of conditions. Growing up in an Italian-American family, Daniela was exposed to nutrient-dense foods early on. She has fond memories of living in Italy and eating pasture-raised meats, free-range chickens, and picking fresh fruit and vegetables from her grandmother's garden. With Daniela's recommendations, her one year old niece happily eats nutrient-dense foods such as beef and lamb, chicken liver, butter and whole-milk dairy products.

Cynthia King Gile, MSW, MPH, Presenter

Cynthia followed her longtime interest in physical health, mental health, community development, nutrition and social justice by pursuing a dual masters degree in Social Work and Public Health at UC Berkeley. Concentrating in health she worked as a medical social worker in a hospice and at a pediatric oncology ward. In public health she followed the Maternal and Child Health concentration and completed a thesis on breastfeeding promotion and duration. Currently she works as management analyst for the Social Services Agency of Alameda County in Child Welfare. Cynthia was a vegetarian for 15 years, a vegan for two, and certain she would never eat meat again, until 4 months after the birth of her son in August 2005 when she had become physically and mentally exhausted; she saw a display on the dangers of soy at Pediatric Alternatives and spent the entire weekend reading the Weston A. Price website, experiencing an immediate and profound life changing experience. She has not had a drop of soy milk since. Her son has eaten nutrient dense foods since he started solids.

Suzan Hahn, DDS, Presenter

Suzan has served as a dentist since 1984. She describes herself as a devoted mother of three growing children. Currently, she is enrolled in a master's program in Integrative Health and has been researching the field of biological/holistic dentistry and implementing concepts into her dental practice. She has had experience as an educational speaker at a number of corporations, presenting on health trends for the American Educational Bureau. Her passion is to help people become healthier.

Jamie Lieber, L.Ac, CMT, Outreach Coordinator

Jamie Lieber recieved her masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco in 2006. She is licensed to practice acupuncture and herbal medicine. Her passion for preventive health care started ten years ago after finishing a BA in Kinesiology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She became a certified yoga instructor in 2002 and a certified shiatsu practitioner in 2005. After being introduced to Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, Jamie decided to further explore the connection between food and health with the intention of integrating her findings into her health care practices. Jamie would like to reach out to the community and educate parents, as well as kids, about the importance of healthy eating.

Julie Matthews, Healthful Living, CNC, Presenter

Julie Matthews is a Certified Nutrition Consultant. She studied at California State certified Bauman College and holds a Bachelor of Science from U.C. Davis in Agricultural and Managerial Economics. Julie is a member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She is an author and speaker, and hosts a weekly radio show in San Francisco. She has a private nutrition practice specializing in children's nutrition, specifically autism, ADHD, and healthy pregnancy for mothers and infants. She believes that the most important way to nourish ourselves and our children is through a traditional diet, where nutrients are received through organic whole food, fermented foods, and raw dairy. Her passion is creating and supporting healthy families.

Advisors

Bill Baren, Bill Baren Coaching, Advisor

Bill has been coaching and mentoring conscious entrepreneurs since 2001. His approach is to seamlessly integrate the logical and tangible with the creative and intuitive. He is committed to personal, entrepreneurial and ecological sustainability and is in the process of launching a coaching program for socially conscious and eco-friendly businesses focusing on business sustainability and marketing from one's values. Bill is the outgoing president of SF Coaches and is featured on the Fine Living Networks' "What's Your Time Worth" TV show.

Christapher Cogswell, MA, Radiant Life Company, Advisor

Christapher is co-founder and co-director of the Radiant Life Company. He studied Anthropology at Carleton College and the California Institute of Integral Studies, receiving an MA in 1996. The focus of his academic research included a cultural exploration of sustainable agriculture practices, and work with native peoples in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Discovering the work of Dr. Price only after eight years of formal academic study, he realized that this research was a crucial missing link for humanity's progress toward sustainability. He co-founded the Radiant Life Company to help disseminate Dr. Price's teachings and to directly support people in turning nutritional degeneration into nutritional regeneration.

Sally Fallon, MA, Weston A. Price Foundation, New Trends Publishing, Advisor

Sally Fallon 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.

Jonathan Hahn, Communications Advisor

Jonathan Hahn has represented numerous think tanks and NGO's such as the Brookings Institution, the Conference Board, the National Environmental Trust, Citizens for Global Solutions, the National Resources Defense Council and the Union of Concerned Scientists, among many others. He has also represented both fiction and non-fiction authors while a publicist at Bantam Doubleday Dell (now known as Random House, Inc.) and Warner Books, respectively. His experience includes opening the Los Angeles office of Planned Television Arts, a division of Ruder-Finn.

Mario Repetto, PhD, Grindstone Bakery, Advisor

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.

Lindy Woodard, MD, Pediatric Alternatives, Advisor

Dr. Lindy Woodard has served as a board certified pediatrician since 1982. She integrates a strong background and interest in nutrition and the healing power of food into her practice at Pediatric Alternatives in Mill Valley. She attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, did her residency at Milwaukee Children's Hospital and completed course work at The Institute of Classical Homeopathy in San Francisco. Her children Sam and Abby have inspired her to always learn more about parenting and pediatrics.

Former Board Members

Daphne Blumenthal, Founding Web Developer
Lynda Smith Cowan, Founding Board Member
Karen Diggs, Former Board Member
Michele McCardle, Former Board Member
Jessica Prentice, Founding Board Member
Cheryl Ross, Founding Board Member
Layne Zimmerman, Former Accounting Manager