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Making Good is the podcast of Church Alley—a small business in New Orleans, LA. This podcast talks about all things small business, including nutrition, challenges, and learning from each other. We hope to share information and conversations that empower small business owners to take care of themselves so they can make good on serving their communities. Church Alley opened as a cafe in 2013, serving delicious locally roasted coffee, homemade pastries, and lunch. In 2020, we expanded our offerings by partnering with over a dozen local small businesses looking for new ways to stay in business. We met so many amazing people doing good work and we couldn’t keep the conversations to ourselves! The cafe closed in November 2024. Church Alley continues as a pantry line that can be found around New Orleans and as a small nutrition & habits coaching business. Small business owners face higher rates of autoimmune disease and are more likely to be dyslexic and have ADHD than the general population. This podcast shares good information for small business owners to take care of themselves so they can keep serving.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Anjali Prasertong is a writer and public health dietitian focused on food systems, racial equity, and nutrition. She led an innovative city-funded corner store program in New Orleans that increased fresh food access in low-income neighborhoods and worked with food entrepreneurs in the city looking to operationalize racial equity in their businesses. Now living in Denver, Colorado, she writes the reader-supported newsletter Antiracist Dietitian.
Our conversation included the nuts and bolts of what working towards becoming a Registered Dietitian (RD). We also discussed in depth why the lack of diversity in the nutrition field causes real problems that must be faced in our communities. Currently, it is estimated that only 2.6% of RDs are Black. The costs of becoming an RD are high and include an undergraduate degree in Dietetics, a Masters's degree, an unpaid 10-month clinical internship that usually costs roughly $10,000, and a national board exam with a high failure rate. Within this path are continual situations that many have spoken about as being inhospitable to those who are not white.
Please follow Anjali's writing to learn more about racism in the nutrition field. She is a wealth of knowledge and activism.
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