Volunteers
Who We Are
Volunteers
Sandrine Hahn, bfa, MA – director
Now an award winning activist, Sandrine previously worked as a marriage and 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 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. She currently serves the campaign as the executive and creative director responsible for visual design, photography, copywriting, bookkeeping, outreach and presenting. She is joined by a larger community of supporters and committed volunteers.
Presenters
Daniela Freda, L.Ac
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.
Suzan Hahn, DDS
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.
Holly Valerio Kuttner, CNC
Holly is a Certified Nutritional Therapist in Oakland, California. She is also a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health. Her approach to nutrition is highly individualized and yet she universally embraces nutrient dense traditional foods. Holly has been into health and healing since a young child and realized quickly how food and nutrition play a critical role in child development, health, and behavior. She has a passion for ‘spreading the word’ about traditional foods and re-connecting people to the old ways of preparing and traditionally processing foods.
Deborah Landowne, MBA, CHom
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!
Julie Matthews, CNC
Julie 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.
Karen Hamilton-Roth, RN
Karen loves teaching people to become healthy and vibrant using diet and lifestyle modification. She works with Dr. Thomas Cowan’s (author of The Fourfold Path to Healing) patients, 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).
Outreach Coordinator
Jamie Lieber, L.Ac, CMT
Jamie received 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.
Advisors
Bill Baren
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
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
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.
Riki Juster
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. 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 at Haifa University for two years where she majored in Education. She has always been interested in nutrition and studied Holistic Nutrition at Bauman College in Berkeley for one year where she was introduced to the Weston A. Price Foundation. Riki's interest in the Nourishing Our Children campaign began during her four years working as a nanny for infants and toddlers. Today, she works as a Human Resources specialist in Oakland and performs in musical stage productions. Riki has served as our Vice President and Secretary and continues to represent the campaign at the annual Weston A. Price Foundation conferences.
Mario Repetto, MA
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
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 Volunteers
Daphne Blumenthal, Founding Web Developer
Lynda Smith Cowan, Founding Vice President and Presenter
Aimee deLongchamp, Former Outreach Coordinator
Karen Diggs, Former Presenter
Cythina King Gile, Former Presenter
Jonathan Hahn, Former Communications Advisor
Michele McCardle, Former Vice President and Outreach Coordinator
Jessica Prentice, Founding Board Member and Presenter
Cheryl Ross, Founding Board Member and Presenter
Layne Zimmerman, Former Bookkeeper
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