Deepa Deshmukh is a dietitian who has formed a private clinic but also is working in the public health sector. Her first experience with nutrition was when volunteering at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, where she taught nutrition to families living in shelters with chronic conditions. She found that the most vulnerable population had very little nutrition education and basic culinary skills and were unaware of the relationship between food and its profound impact on their bodies. With this problem in mind, she assisted in writing grants and eventually received funding to build a kitchen within a public  health clinic for undeserved and low income people of the community.