Geeta Maker-Clark

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark is the Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at NorthShore University Health System and clinical assistant professor and co-director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She has studied integrative medicine, nutritional science, botanical medicine, mind body medicine and natural childbirth in health clinics all over the world. Geeta started the Food is Power program on the South Side of Chicago to empower youth to make healthier choices, with a curriculum that focuses on decolonized, holistic food education. In 2019, she was recognized as a national leader in food justice activism with a Castanea Fellowship. At the Mesa, Geeta will work on a book that transforms the way we think about medicine—looking to ancient wisdom and modern struggles as opportunities to heal with the medicines that are all around us.