Alice Figueroa MPH RDN CDN

Alice Figueroa is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Dietitian Nutritionist, and National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach who is passionate about promoting universal access to nutrition support, health services, and wholesome foods for all segments of society. She is an award winning Natural Foods Chef recognized with a James Beard Foundation National Scholar Award. She is dedicated to empowering the global community and her clients and patients to achieve optimum well-being through sustainable foods, mindful nutrition, health supportive cooking, and happy and intuitive eating. Alice founded www.AliceInFoodieland.com and the Mindful Nutrition Center, where the community can access inclusive nutrition services and explore science-based nutrition articles and delicious, health supportive recipes. She serves as a nutrition expert and writer in leading publications including Time, The New York Times, Health, EatingWell, Shape, Well+Good, Univision, and EveryDay Health. Alice earned a Masters of International and Community Public Health from New York University, where she also completed her Dietetic and Nutrition credentials. She also holds an honors degree in International Relations with a focus on healthcare policy from Tulane University. She earned a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Certificate on Measurement, Design, and Analysis Methods for Health Outcomes and a World Food Program Certificate on a Food Systems Approach to Food Security. Alice is the Duke Center for International Development Malnutrition Research Fellow with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic Foundation and conducted research to address chronic malnutrition in underserved indigenous populations in Central America. Her mission is to empower her patients to find food freedom, ditch chronic dieting, and heal their relationship with their bodies. Through the practices of mindful nutrition and intuitive eating, Alice is dedicated to supporting patients in the management of prediabetes, diabetes, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and gastrointestinal disorders. She is particularly committed to bringing culturally-rich and culturally-humble nutrition support to Black, Indigenous and People of Color and provides nutrition education and counseling in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Throughout her career, she conducted health assessments and developed bilingual nutrition education programs for underserved communities in Brooklyn, Harlem, South Africa, and the Bronx. She is a dedicated Yoga and meditation student and teacher and completed a 300- hour Yoga Teaching Certification. Alice loves spending her days going on adventures in New York City and New Orleans – looking for the perfect cup of coffee/matcha, searching for scrumptious food, blending green smoothies, cooking new recipes with her farmers market finds, and playing with her cats.