Malina Malkani, MS, RDN, CDN, is the registered dietitian, best-selling author, speaker, and single mom of 3 behind the Instagram and TikTok handle ‘@healthy.mom.healthy.kids.’ A top nutrition influencer dedicated to educating her audience of over 140,000 followers about infant and child nutrition, Malina is a trusted expert in local and national media outlets and owns a nutrition consulting company and private practice at MalinaMalkani.com that helps caregivers feed their babies and kids with confidence. She is the author of ‘Simple and Safe Baby-Led Weaning: How to Integrate Foods, Manage Portion Sizes and Identify Allergies’ and the creator of two online courses for parents ‘Safe & Simple Baby-Led Feeding’ and ‘Solve Picky Eating.’ Her new book, ‘Food Allergy Prevention During Baby-Led Feeding: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Solids With Over 80 Family-Friendly Recipes’ will publish in the spring of 2024 with BenBella Books, distributed by Penguin Random House. A 2022 and 2023 Forbes Health Advisory Board Member and former national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Malina completed her undergraduate degrees at Northwestern University and her master’s degree in clinical nutrition at New York University.