Angela focuses on creating awareness and actively offers education, support, and treatment for people of color, whose experiences have typically been dismissed or overlooked. As a Registered and Licensed Dietitian for nearly two decades, Angela has dedicated her entire career to the mental health field. Her experience working in all levels of intensive programming and outpatient services for eating disorders, chemical dependency, depression, and anxiety have given Angela great exposure to the entire continuum of care. Experience includes program development, facilitating support groups, motivational interviewing, individual counseling, mentoring, meal support, conducting training and education, as well as providing supervision. She currently owns a private practice, Rooted Nutrition Services, which offers individual nutrition counseling, peer supervision, and consulting. 

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Angela Goens, MS, RDN, LD

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Whitney Trotter: (she/her) is dually licensed as a Registered Dietitian, Nurse, and yoga instructor. Whitney has over ten years of experience working as a registered dietitian serving the HIV/AIDS community as well as working in the eating disorder field. Whitney also previously worked at a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center as a Pediatric emergency room nurse. In addition to working as an RDN and RN, Whitney has served as a member of her county's Rape Crisis Center. Her work at the Rape Crisis Center equipped her to co-found an anti-trafficking organization Restore Corps, where she now provides medical training to the community focusing on human trafficking response. Whitney's career in the Eating Disorder field includes being a former Nutrition and Nursing director of a Residential, PHP, and IOP center. Whitney is also the owner/founder of Bluff City Health, a private practice specializing in bridging the gap in the eating disorder field of equitable care and social justice. Whitney also provides clinical supervision and consultation for clinicians. 

Whitney Trotter, MS, RDN/LDN, RN, RYT

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Shelby Gordon

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Reagan is a fourth-year dietetics student with dual minors in Spanish and Culinary Science and Nutrition at the University of Georgia. She is expecting to graduate in the Spring of 2023. Shortly after, she will begin a dietetic internship, in pursuit of becoming a registered dietitian. Her passion for dietetics was derived from personal health challenges but has grown into something more. Learning about the prevalence of nutrition-related illnesses and diseases in marginalized groups sparked her to pursue nutrition with cultural literacy. Most recently, she traveled to Bolivia, to better understand the role of nutrition through a cultural lens by working with Bolivian healthcare providers. Her most recent work is as a writer and photographer featured on Spoon University and The Dietitian Editor. In her free time, you can usually find her either working on her photography or creating a dairy- free ice cream flavor.

Reagan Street

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Melissa Rivera is a Latina born and raised in Los Angeles, CA who is an aspiring registered dietitian. Melissa's interest in nutrition and dietetics stems from her vegan diet and involvement in animal rights activism. Melissa previously studied Cognitive Science at UCSC and in her last job she planned and led activities for seniors with dementia and Alzheimer's .This past year Melissa has been taking prerequisite courses at her local community college to start a masters program in nutrition and she has been a mentee in the mentorship program with Diversify Dietetics. This upcoming Fall, Melissa will be starting her Master of Public Health in Nutritional Sciences with a concentration in Dietetics, at the University of Michigan.

Melissa Rivera

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