Learn more about our Wellness Experts below.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
Best-selling Author and Speaker
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is a best-selling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. In her previous book, Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love, she shares the wisdom from her life’s adventures and experiences. In her new book, Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life, she takes readers on a journey and inspires them to let go of what doesn’t work and instead create the lives they really want. Agapi was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then moved on to receive her master’s degree in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Her previous books on the Greek archetypes, Gods and Goddesses in Love and Conversations with the Goddesses, were turned into PBS specials. She is currently conducting workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington, to help change the way we work and live. Agapi has spoken and conducted meditations at many corporations including PepsiCo, Google, Nike and Starbucks. She divides her time between New York and Los Angeles and was born and raised in Athens, Greece.
FIND HER online at www.WakeUptotheJoyofYou.com
Aimee Raupp
Women's Health & Fertility Expert
Alba Ramos
Non-toxic Beauty & Lifestyle Youtuber and Blogger
Asha Ramakrishna
Spiritual and Business Mentor
Brandie Gilliam
Founder of Thoughtfully Magazine
Cassandra Bodzak
Holistic Lifestyle Expert & Best Selling Author
CASSANDRA BODZAK is the best selling author of “Eat with Intention: Recipes and Meditations for a Life the Lights You Up” and the founder of the online mind-body-soul support community, Aprecity.com. Cassandra is a global meditation and wellness teacher who instructs people on how to utilize the technologies of food, meditation, and self-care to create their 'next level' life. She has been dubbed a "spiritual leader" by Well and Good and is the mindful cooking show host of Eat with Intention TV or you may know her as the happy, healthy living guru from ABC’s The Taste. Cassandra speaks all over the country, works with a select group of clients one on one and enjoys spending her free time on the beach in Santa Monica enjoying life.
Caleb Dean
Cambridge Naturals
Christine Carter
Marketing Strategist & Millenial Thought Leader
By day, Christine Michel Carter is a thought leader for marketing to millennial moms and black consumers. Over the past 10 years, she has established credibility as a marketing strategist and researcher of millennials, forming strategic alliances with organizations with Starbucks, Under Armour and Whole Foods to name a few. She has served as a panelist at national conferences and has advised multicultural media outlets like Black Entertainment Television (BET). Christine also regularly contributes to Forbes, Health and HuffPost covering millennial parenting, millennials in the workplace and Black millennials. She has been profiled by both Ebony and Women’s Health, appeared on a number of podcasts and has partnered with brands such as Brahmin, Orgain, Chicco, Hungryroot, 23andMe, OtterBox, and Therapedic as a social media influencer via my highly-followed Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Cyndie Spiegel
Speaker, Coach & Founder The Collective (of Us)
Dr. Drew Ramsey
Board-certified Psychiatrist, Author, and Farmer
Dr. Ramsey is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. He is one of psychiatry’s leading proponents of using dietary change to help balance moods, sharpen brain function and improve mental health. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and in active clinical practice in New York City where his work focuses on the clinical treatment of depression and anxiety. Using the latest brain science and nutritional research, modern treatments, and an array of delicious food he aims to help people live to their happiest, healthiest lives.
He is the co-creator of The Brain Food Scale, co-founder of National Kale Day 501(c)3, and a member of the medical review team at Dr. Oz’s webportal ShareCare. He frequently speaks and conducts workshops nationally, including two recent TEDx talks BrainFork and Brain Farmacy on food and brain health. His work and writing have been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Atlantic.com, Prevention, Lancet Psychiatry, and NPR, which named him a “kale evangelist.” His recent bestseller 50 Shades of Kale (HarperWave 2013) has made this superfood accessible to thousands. His first book, The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood and Lean, Energized Body (Rodale 2011) explored the impact of modern diets on brain health. Coming up next is Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients that Fuel Brain Power, Boost Weight Loss and Transform Your Health (HarperWave Spring 2016.)
Dr. Ramsey teaches and supervises Psychiatric Evaluation and in the Columbia University Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. He serves as a thesis mentor for graduate students at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition where is also lectures on nutrition and the brain. From 2005 to 2008, he directed the Audubon Continuing Day Treatment Program, a bi-lingual service for the severely mentally ill located in the Washington Heights. He is a faculty member at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
Dr. Ramsey is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed his specialty training in adult psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, received an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Earlham College.
Erica Corsano
Lifestyle Journalist, Image Consultant and Speaker
A self-proclaimed Jackie of all trades, Erica Corsano has her hands in many creative projects. As a lifestyle journalist, image consultant, speaker, world traveler, animal advocate and obsessed dog mom, most of her time is spent scouring New England (and the globe) for all things fun, fabulous and inspiring.
Corsano has contributed to Condé Nast, yahoo.com, CNN, NBC and many other media outlets and is an adjunct instructor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Erica firmly believes in living your best life and recently became a brand ambassador for Whole Foods. Her free time is spent with her two Jack Russell Terriers Penelope and Henri, volunteering for animal advocacy organizations like MSPCA and traveling around the world.
She's currently working on her first book that explores the power of inner style.
Jessamyn Stanley
Author, Yoga Teacher and Body-Positive Advocate.
Jessica Diaz
Fitness Professional and Spokesperson for ASA
Jennifer Racioppi
Astrologer and Women’s Success Coach
Josh Rosebrook
Founder of Josh Rosebrook Skin and Hair Care
Though he may be renowned for his popular clean beauty brand, Josh Rosebrook is not only a successful entrepreneur. He is a truth seeker. Since he was an 18-year-old growing up in the Pacific Northwest, meditation has been a part of Josh’s life. In fact, he remains so committed to his practice that there hasn’t been more than a single day that he’s missed meditating since then.
He credits his daily practice with helping him live his most authentic, empowered life, and helping him tap into the awareness and energy needed to start his own business.
The W. E. L. L. Summit is honored to welcome back Josh Rosebrook as a speaker. Josh seeks to demystify meditation and teach us how to use it as a tool to connect to our true soul self, expand our awareness, take responsibility for our happiness and let go of what holds us back so that we may live in peace, wisdom, and abundance.
Kathryn Budig
Internationally Celebrated Yoga Teacher and Author
Internationally Celebrated Yoga Teacher and Author
Kathryn Budig is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and author known for her accessibility, humor, and ability to empower her students through her message, “aim true.” The Kansas native graduated from the University of Virginia with a double degree in English and Drama before moving to Los Angeles, where she trained at Yogaworks under the tutelage of her mentors, Maty Ezraty and Chuck Miller.
With over a decade of experience in her field, Budig served as the yoga editor to Women’s Health magazine for five years, contributed recipes and sat on the Yahoo Health Advisory Board, and regularly contributes to Yoga Journal, The New Potato, and MindBodyGreen. She’s an athlete in Under Armour’s “I WILL WHAT I WANT” campaign, the co-host of espnW’s podcast, Free Cookies, teaches regular online classes on Yogaglo.com, and is the founder of her animal project, Poses for Paws. She is the creator of the Aim True Yoga DVD produced by Gaiam, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga and Aim True.
Kristine Keheley
Co-Founder of Vapour Organic Beauty
Kristine Keheley is a Co-Founder of the Indie Eco-Luxe brand Vapour Organic Beauty. She is also Vapour’s formulator and has 16 years experience as a thought leader in Organic cosmetics and personal care. Vapour products are on the leading edge of organic formulation driven by Kristine's passion for innovation and performance, and her commitment to ingredient and supply chain integrity. Kristine is self–taught as a formulator and her work has helped Vapour win two Allure Best of Beauty Awards. In addition to formulating the product line for Vapour, she has designed and developed successful skin care products and cosmetics lines for other brands in the natural personal care industry. As a nationally exhibited abstract painter, Kristine has been a professional fine artist for over 25 years. Her trained artistic sensitivity has brought a unique depth and complexity to Vapour’s colour palette. Kristine earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College with a double major in Classical Archaeology and Art History.
Koya Webb
Celebrity Holistic Health Coach and Yoga Instructor
Koya is a highly regarded expert source influencer and editorial contributor with appearances on NBC, CBS, CNN and the Steve Harvey Show and over 300k online media followers. Her holistic health, detox and lifestyle tips have been featured in Oxygen, Essence, LA Yoga, Mind Body Green, The Chalkboard, Max Sport & Fitness, and Muscle & Performance among others.
This former Olympic track and field hopeful heptathlete turned to yoga and holistic healing after battling depression triggered by a season-ending injury and she has never turned back. Koya healed herself and many others using natural foods, fitness, yoga, meditation and healthy living practices.
With over 15 years of practical application and certifications from the Integrated Institute of Nutrition (IIN), National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM), Source of Yoga 500hr and many others, Koya stays on the pulse of what's fun, fresh and effective when it comes to optimal nutrition and healthy living. Her mission is to create a healthier planet one breath at a time via holistic healing, oneness and eco-friendly living. Koya combines the work ethic and dedication of an athlete with simple practical holistic health practices that anyone can follow to live a healthy and active lifestyle.
Ksenia Avdulova
Founder of Breakfast Criminals
By day, Ksenia is freelance Social Media Director at Visual Therapy and digital strategy consultant helping lifestyle brands and changemakers create extraordinary and authentic online presence. Get her social media tips on the upcoming website, digitaloralive.com.
Ksenia is a certified Strala yoga guide and a graduate of David Wagner‘s advanced meditation training. When she’s not taking the latest fitness class in New York or throwing a superfood smoothie bowl party, you can find her flying to Wanderlust Festival in California to write about it for lululemon, meditating at a Tibetan monastery in Swiss Alps, and planning the next yoga & superfoods retreat.
Latham Thomas
Celebrity Wellness/Lifestyle Maven and Birth Doula
Latham Thomas, aka Glow Maven is a celebrity wellness/lifestyle maven and birth doula- transforming not only how women give birth to their babies, but how they give rise to the best version of themselves. Named one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100 - a enlightened group of leaders elevating humanity with their work- Latham is helping women embrace optimal wellness and spiritual growth as a pathway to owning their power. She is the founder of Mama Glow, a lifestyle brand offering inspiration, education, and holistic services for expectant and new mamas. A graduate of Columbia University and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Latham serves on the TUFTS University Nutrition Council. Latham authored “Mama Glow: A Hip Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy,” a go-to wellness guide for expecting mothers endorsed by Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr Mark Hyman, Christy Turlington Burns & more. Having cultivated her wellness practice for over a decade she has served as a doula and lifestyle guru for clients including: Alicia Keys, Rebecca Minkoff, DJ Khaled, Venus and Serena Williams and more. Latham's leading a revolution in radical self-care teaching women everywhere to “mother themselves first”. She was named one of the “Top 100 Women To Watch In Wellness” by Mind Body Green. She is the author of the forthcoming book, “Own Your Glow: A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and Crowning the Queen Within”. Latham’s leading a revolution in radical self-care teaching women everywhere to “mother themselves first”. Latham has been featured in a variety of media outlets including: Vogue, SELF, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal Magazine, E! News, Essence, Fit Pregnancy, The Dr. Oz Show, BET Networks, Centric, Good Day NY, Inside Edition, and is working on a project with the OWN network. She is the proud mother of 13 year-old young man who is a professional DJ. Latham resides in New York City.
Linda Barron
CEO of Steaz
Dr. Matthew Lorber
Founder of Manhattan Mind Health and Wellness
Matthew W. Lorber, M.D., M.P.A. is the Founder and current Co-President of Manhattan Mind Health and Wellness and the former Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at Lenox Hill Hospital. He is a board certified physician (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology), and serves on the Mental Health Advisory Board for The Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety. Dr. Lorber is considered an expert in both wellness and psychopharmacology and has lectured on the most novel treatments of chronic pain, migraines, traumatic brain injuries, sexual health, pre and postnatal health, Social Anxiety, Selective Mutism, OCD, ADHD, Depression, and Eating Disorders.
Dr. Lorber has been at the forefront in promoting lifetime wellness as well as combating myths and stigma surrounding mental health. He is devoted to education, and has taught physicians, medical students and allied health professionals at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York Medical College and SUNY Upstate University of Medicine. Dr. Lorber is a three time winner of the “Patients’ Choice Award,” a national award for top rated physicians and additionally, in 2015 won teacher of the year at Lenox Hill Hospital. As part of his community outreach, Dr. Lorber is a weekly commentator on the talk radio show Angels on Air which promotes children’s health and safety. Dr. Lorber has had multiple media and television appearances including CBS, Fox, ABC, NBC, WPIX, Up to the Minute, About.com, and Focus on Health TV. He is also frequently quoted in The NY Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He is passionate about the need for total body wellness, and not just a reliance on traditional medicine.
McKel Hill
Author & Creator of Nutrition Stripped
Nitika Chopra
Certified Life Coach & Wellness Entrepreneur
Nitika Chopra is a certified life coach, wellness entrepreneur, go-to resource for young women around the globe, and a motivational lifestyle guru. Nitika is on a mission to inspire radical self-love. She began her journey as an entrepreneur as the founder of the popular online magazine Bella Life in 2010. She is also the host of the talk show Naturally Beautiful on Z Living which focuses on a holistic approach to beauty from the inside out.
Her passion for beauty and self-love landed her a job with a luxury skin care brand as their on-air beauty expert for QVC. Nitika is a passionate, colorful, and inspirational voice supporting people in their journey to access more self-love by creating a lifestyle reflective of it. For more information, please visit www.NitikaChopra.com
Phoebe Lapine
Gluten-Free Chef, Culinary Instructor, and Author
Phoebe is a frequent contributor to Food and Wine, The Huffington Post, Yahoo Health, and Mind Body Green, where she also teaches the popular video e-course How-To Make Healthy & Delicious Meals On A Budget & In A Time-Crunch. Her healthy recipes and writing have been featured in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, SELF, Shape, The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Glamour, and O! Magazine, among others. She is also a regular host of cooking shows and wellness programming for Healthination and AOL.
Dr. Rachele Pojednic
Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Simmons College
Dr. Rachele Pojednic
Dr. Rachele Pojednic is an Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Simmons College and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She holds a PhD from the Tufts University in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and an EdM in Physical Education and Coaching. As a researcher, her work has a specific focus on physical activity and nutrition interventions for the prevention and treatment of non-communicable chronic disease. She serves as co-chair of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Exercise Is Medicine® education committee, is on the American Council on Exercise Industry Advisory Panel, and is a council member of the True Health Initiative. Dr. Pojednic has also been an active member of the fitness industry for the past 15 years and is an indoor cycling instructor at Flywheel Sports in Boston. She has been a consultant and writer to several organizations, including Joy Bauer and the Today Show, Huffington Post Healthy Living Blog, Boston Magazine, Runners World, Women’s Health and Self Magazine.
Rebecca Casciano
Makeup Artist & Natural Beauty Expert
Throughout Rebecca's makeup career, she has been on a personal wellness journey that has deeply influenced her approach to beauty. After struggling with cystic acne for several years, she transformed her skin and lifestyle through a plant-based diet and holistic healing modalities. Rebecca’s experience inspired her to become a certified wellness coach and help women embrace their natural beauty from the inside out. In 2015 she founded Sacred Beauty Salon Series, a global movement dedicated to empowering women through beauty and sisterhood.
Learn more about Rebecca’s offerings and programs at www.rebeccacasciano.com.
Ruby Warrington
Author, Journalist, Founder of The Numinous
Ruby Warrington is Founder of conscious lifestyle platform The Numinous. A British journalist based in Brooklyn, NY, Ruby's first book, Material Girl, Mystical World, is out now on Harper Collins—as featured in Nylon, Teen Vogue, Vogue.com, Hello Giggles, the NY Post, Wanderlust, Well+Good, The Culture Trip and Mind Body Green, among others. Part memoir, part guide to thriving in the Now Age, the book has been described by Arianna Huffington as: "helping to redefine success for the 21st Century," she brings the tools and practices she writes about to life with her online spiritual mentoring program, Moon Club.
Sandra Chiu
Acupuncturist and Herbalist
Sara DiVello
Yoga Teacher & Author ofWhere in the OM Am I?
Sara teaches and speaks nationally on using yoga tools to find life balance, direction, and fulfillment. She has appeared on CBS and the Huffington Post Live, as well as in Forbes, The New York Times, ABC, CNBC, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Herald, USA Today, Boston Magazine and many more. Her articles have appeared in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Dr. Oz The Good Life Magazine, MindBodyGreen, and more.
Sara’s classes are welcoming, nourishing, and transformational—offering students of all levels the possibility to step back, breathe deeply, and profoundly experience wellness, balance, and calm. Sara was also selected as one of seven Athleta Brand Ambassadors in the country, and provides free health and wellness events to the Boston community.
Sarah Villafranco, MD
Founder & CEO of Osmia Organics
Satya Scainetti
Founder of Satya Jewelry
Tara Foley
Founder of Follain
Zach Adelman
Founder & CEO of Navitas Organics
Incan nutritional wisdom was an unexpected discovery when Zach Adelman created Navitas Organics a little more than a decade ago. In 2003, the long-time health food enthusiast experienced the taste and health benefits of maca, a nutritious and invigorating root vegetable with a long history of traditional use by the ancient Incans and the indigenous people in the Andes Mountains of Peru. His interest in maca combined with his entrepreneur roots from his family’s import/export business in his home town of Toronto, Ontario inspired Zach to begin importing organic maca root powder as Navitas Organics’ original product.
Now, many years after his inaugural adventure to the Andes Mountains, raw maca is still one of the company’s best sellers. Zach’s success with maca encouraged him to search the planet for more functional foods that have long been used by cultures for nutritional and medicinal purposes. Over the years, the Navitas Organics line has grown to include over forty premium organic superfood products from around the world with a vast diversity of nutrients and flavors. Under Zach’s guidance, Navitas Organics, based in Novato, CA, has helped establish a thriving new organic superfood category at stores.
As founder and CEO, Zach is committed to providing the finest plant-based, USDAcertified organic and non-GMO products available. He sources products that are sustainably grown and harvested. His dedication to running a certified B Corporation health food business that delivers some of the most nutrient dense superfood ingredients and snacks on the planet is the foundation for Navitas Organics to be a leader in the organic food industry.