Olivia Myers, RDN, LD founded Lowcountry Street Grocery’s (LSG) GroceryRx program in 2017 with the intention of pushing food and prevention into the healthcare system. She oversees the growth of this initiative in efforts to move the dial on medical reimbursement for fresh, nutritious food. Her current work is deeply rooted in righting the wrong in the food access world and challenging a system that locks the disadvantaged in a charity-based cycle.

She sits on multiple local and state-level boards to promote equality and diversity in the dietetics profession, as well as expanding “food is medicine” strategies across the state.

Olivia’s personal and professional experiences surrounding food have taken many shapes, from counseling native populations in rural Alaska to leading the nutrition and food curriculum at a therapeutic wilderness program for teen girls to working clinically with inpatient and outpatient populations at leading hospitals.

The interest innutrition evolved from many years working in kitchens, from bakeries to fine-dining. She has lived the homesteading lifestyle while establishing life in a yurt on a small piece of land outside of Seattle, where she expanded skills of growing, raising, preserving, hunting and butchering food. Food is the seed that all of Olivia’s personal and professional ambitions extend from and her entrenched belief is that it has the ability to heal mentally, physically and emotionally.

In this episode we discuss:

• Olivia's homesteading experience.
• Hunting & fishing in Alaska.
• Creating a grocery prescription program (GroceryRx).
• The top 3 issues in our food system.

Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QHW-phOMn4N0sQ5l2s7OHz0yQRuGOn3FlfXP7fqVELA/edit?usp=sharing

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