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. Geeta has spent two decades studying integrative medicine, nutritional science, botanical medicine, mind-body medicine, and natural childbirth in health clinics all over the world. She 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. Geeta was recognized as a national leader in food justice activism with a Castanea Fellowship from 2019-2022 and the Mesa Refuge Michael Pollan Fellowship in Food Journalism in 2021. She believes that food, plants, dance, music, and art are necessary, daily medicines.
Geeta believes in transforming the way we think about medicine and looks to ancient wisdom and modern struggles as opportunities to heal with the medicines that are all around us.
Contributions to HumansandNature.org:
- The Medicines Are All Around Us
A response to “How do we create communities to which we can all belong?”
Noteworthy Links:
- Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, MD
Learn about Dr. Maker-Clark’s work as a physician and healer. - Weaving the Legacy of Art and Medicine
Listen to a podcast episode with Dr. Maker-Clark and seed keeper Rowan White.
