As a founding nutrition and lifestyle coach, cooking instructor, and educator at the Whole Foods Medical and Wellness Center, Lisa Rice helped the store's employees and executives take control of their health. Now, in partnership with Forks Over Knives physicians Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman, she brings her decades of experience to virtual group classes and private sessions.
Lisa is a long-time vegan and climatarian. She has been teaching plant-based cooking for decades, working with individuals and groups, as a regular guest on morning television, and as a presenter at lifestyle conferences. She is a graduate of the Global College of Natural Medicine, and earned her "Lifestyle Medicine For Coaches" certificate from the American College Of Lifestyle Medicine. Lisa also holds a Masters in Traditional Asian Medicine from Emperor's College and worked for over a decade as an acupuncturist and herbalist. She is a graduate of the Rouxbe Plant-Based Professional Course, and is currently completing her Well Coaches certification to sit for the NBHWC. Lisa completed her teacher training with the nationally acclaimed Yoga Works and has been a Certified Yoga Instructor for decades.
Before switching careers, Lisa was a major-label record company executive. She's lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin. Lisa's passions are cooking and feeding others, writing, reading, gardening, and sharing her life in San Francisco with her husband David, teenage son Judah, cat Ringo, and rescue pups Luna and GeddyLee.
