About Lisa

Lisa Ota, RD, MPH, MA

A Registered Dietitian with degrees in nutrition and spirituality, Lisa is uniquely qualified to help us understand our dynamic relationship with food. Her passion about the unbreakable links between food and spirituality is the result of over twenty years of academic, professional, and personal exploration. In 1987, she graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics and received the Nutrition Sciences Departmental Citation Award. In 1990, she earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley with High Honors. In 1996, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Culture and Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College.

Knowing that we don’t have time to waste, Lisa seeks the most efficient ways to support our well-being.  She has developed wellness programs for various corporations, including Safeway, Pacific Bell, and Advanced Fiber Communications (AFC), non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, including direction of the first statewide distribution of UC Berkeley’s The Wellness Guide to over one million English- and Spanish-speaking participants in California’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. Over the years, she has led over 100 grocery store tours, including one with Dr. Nancy Snyderman for KPIX Channel 5 News. Lisa is a contributing author to two recent books, The Social Cause Diet and Originally Blessed, and has recently made appearances on KGO TV’s The View from the Bay.

Lisa loves salsa!

Lisa currently serves on The Wellness Letter Fund Advisory Committee at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. She is a member of The American Dietetic Association with participation in the following practice groups: Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, Vegetarian Nutrition, Food and Culinary Professionals. She is a member of the Slow Food Movement and is an enthusiastic Representative with NSA (National Safety Associates), a company committed to Inspring Healthy Living Around the World, primarily by finding affordable, efficient, and effective ways to get more whole food nutrition into as many human bodies as possible!

Lisa is a Shamanic Soul Coach with certification from the Integrative Arts Institute. This work honors her Native American roots and supports her deep commitment to nourishing the well-being of the earth as well as our individual and communal selves.

Lisa is a proud native of the San Francisco Bay Area where she resides with her family and enjoys the abundance that the area offers.

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