Health + Wellness Content Creators
This page houses a list of BIPOC content creators and influential leaders devoted to food, nutrition, fitness and health & well-being.
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Food + Nutrition
Black Foodie - Instagram account dedicated to highlighting the work of Black chefs and food influencers
Affiong Osuchukwu (plant based food explorer)
Alethea (plant-based + meal delivery service)
Ashlea Carver Adams (simple, healthy, gluten free recipes)
Benjamina Ebuehi (baking cookbook The New Way to Cake)
Breanna Danielle (plant-based)
Brooklynne (medical student, vegan, mindfulness, plant-based nutrition)
Bryant Terry (vegan cookbook Vegetable Kingdom / food and justice)
Catherine (dietician, vegan recipes + wellness tips)
Charity Morgan (A plant-based chef with a focus on nutrition and overall health. She's dedicated to helping her clients (including many NFL athletes) smoothly transition to animal-free diets)
Chef Kai Chase (celebrity chef)
David Chaim Jacob Zilber (formerly head of the fermentation lab at NOMA and co-author of The New York Times best-selling book The Noma Guide to Fermentation)
Desirée (vegan)
DeVonn Francis (real, clean food)
Eden Hagos (Founder of @blackfoodie.co)
Erica (paleo, GF, Whole30, food freedom)
Food Heaven - Wendy & Jess (dieticians, healthy recipes - Inclusive & Accessible wellness / hosts of the Food Heaven Podcast)
Gina Marie (vegan)
Haile Thomas (vegan cookbook Living Lively / international speaker, wellness & compassion activist, vegan food)
Hilaire Baumgartner (plant-forward food for all eaters)
Imma (ethnic fusion)
Jenné Claiborne (vegan chef, Sweet Potato Soul cookbook)
Jerrelle Guy (baking - cookbook nominated for a James Beard award in 2019)
Jessica Hylton Leckie (vegan recipes, mostly GF)
Joe Townsend (kid chef)
Kevin Curry (food + fitness)
Les (wellness podcaster & host of the top-rated @balancedblackgirlpodcast)
Lloyd Rose (vegan)
Marisa Moore (nutritionist, plant-forward)
Maya Feller (registered dietitian, chronic disease prevention)
Melissa Wilcox (mix of food and lifestyle)
Monique Starks (soy & gluten free, plant-based chef)
Murielle Banackissa (food photographer)
Nicole Cardoza (wellness, mindfulness)
Nik Manning (keto & low carb)
Nyesha J Arrington (chef, sustainability & fitness enthusiast)
Pearl Cicci (plant-based nutritionist, health coach)
Peggy Exumé (healthy, plant-based recipes, mental health & food / dancer)
Rachel Ama (cookbook Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats / fitness/Muay Tai)
Rahanna Bisseret Martinez (A 16-year-old chef and former finalist on Top Chef Junior. She's already cooked in Michelin-starred and James Beard Award–winning restaurants and is calling on the food media to be more inclusive and representative of black food experts)
Rosalynn Daniels (recipes, entertaining tips & lifestyle inspo)
Shakayla (vegan)
Shana Minei Spence (registered dietitian nutritionist + virtual counselling)
Shanika | Orchids + Sweet Tea (V + GF)
Shannon Epstein (mostly Whole30, low carb)
Sophia Roe (healthy recipes, food & well-being / co-founder of The Pillowtalk Sessions)
Tabitha Brown (vegan foodie)
Two Modern Vegans: Carlon + Dominique (husband + wife - vegan)
Valerie Agyeman (women’s health dietitian)
Veronica Garnett (A fat-positive registered dietitian and culinary expert. Her website describes her work as "culturally sensitive, weight-inclusive, and grounded in social justice."
Yewande Komolafe (Recipes featured in NYT/real food, travel)
Health + Wellness
Ajahzi Gardner (fitness)
Alicia Tillan (yoga + cycling instructor)
Berto Calkins (physical & mental health, vegan, fitness and plant-based nutrition)
Briana Owens (wellness advocate, founder of @SpikedSpin)
Camillia (fitness)
Christina M. Rice (yogi + wellness advocate, founder of @OMNoire)
Danyele Wilson (fitness)
Devi Brown (well-being educator, meditation, reiki, founder of Karma Bliss)
Franceska Medina (all natural beauty DIYs and mental/emotional wellness)
Hassanatu (Haja) Savage (fitness, recipes and yoga)
Jess Sims (fitness)
Jessamyn Stanley (yoga enthusiast, author of Every Body Yoga and founder of @theunderbellyyoga)
Khamica Bingham (fitness, olympian)
Kimberly Fe’Lix (wellness advocate, writer, clean beauty, sustainable living & nutritional eats)
Koya Webb (meditation, yoga, breath work, holistic, vegan, founder of @getlovedup and author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce)
Lauren Ash (yoga, meditation+ spirituality teacher, founder of @blackgirlinom and host of Black Girl In Om podcast)
Leah Penniman (equity in the farming world / co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, an organic farm in New York focused on ending racism and injustice in the food system / author of the book Farming While Black)
Massy Arias (health coach/fitness and founder of vegan supplement brand @tru_supplements)
Millana Snow (energy healer, founder of Wellness Official)
Qui (fitness)
Raneir Pollard (fitness)
Sasha Exeter (Founder of So Sasha – a personal brand and website sharing a refreshing approach to fitness, lifestyle and motherhood)
Scola Dondo (fitness)
Tie Simpson (mindful yoga, holistic wellness)
Trap Yoga Bae - Britteny aka Yoga Bae + DJ TrueStarr
Tunde Oyeneyin (Fitness)
Yrsa Daley-Ward (writer, actor, model / works include topics such as identity, race, mental health, and femininity)