Board of Directors
Anneke Hobson, MA, MPH, RD
Anneke worked as a Public Health Dietitian for 5 years in Kingston, Ontario, and in 2022 left to start her own private practice. She is a co-author of the Board of Health report Diets for a Cool Planet: Healthy, sustainable diets for Toronto. She started Dietitians for Climate Action (previously known as Drawdown Dietetics) after reading many calls to action for dietitians to take leadership on climate change, but not seeing enough action for the scale of the problem. She’s committed to using evidence to support and promote dietitians in this area, and really hopes we can save the future of chocolate.
Renita Lam, MPH, RD
Renita is a private practice dietitian in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her interest in sustainable diets began with a project during her Master’s degree and continued as she was able to help educate her clients on climate-friendly food choices. From cricket protein to veggie scrap broth, she enjoys exploring the different avenues for climate change mitigation and hopes to help support other dietitians in this area of practice.
Advisory Group
Dr. Liesel Carlsson
Liesel is a dietitian and Associate Professor in the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University. Her research and community work focuses on community-level engagement with sustainable food systems and diets, and currently, the strategic role of dietitians in that work. She has also been working on the ICDA Food Sustainability Initiative since 2017.
Dr. Sadaf Mollaei
Dr. Sadaf Mollaei is the Arrell Chair in the Business of Food and an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph. Dr. Mollaei also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at the University of Waterloo. Sadaf holds a PhD and MES in Sustainability Management and an MBA in Marketing. She also has over six years of managerial experience in the food service industry. Sadaf’s research focuses on promoting sustainable food systems, with a particular emphasis on sustainable eating behaviors and food businesses. She conducts both qualitative and quantitative research at the intersection of sustainability, marketing, and public health and is particularly interested in studying the promotion of sustainability through interventions and sustainable marketing.
Dr. Kate Parizeau
Kate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. Some of her research specializations include food waste, waste management and planning, and environmental justice.
Rachel Prowse, RD
Rachel is a dietitian and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University. She has a broad range of research interests including public health nutrition, food policy, and food environments.
Basak Topcu
Basak is a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, working under Professor Goretty Dias. She researches the nutritional and environmental impacts of food production and consumption through life-cycle thinking.
Volunteers
Dietitians for Climate Action would not have been able to produce all of our content without the help of our wonderful past and present volunteers:
Sylvia Black
Claire Carvalho
Leeauna Duschene
Keri Howell, RD
Erica Kao, RD
Lesley McMullin, RD
Natalie Nguyen
Sobia Rashid
Simone Queensville, RD
Rachel Wong