Charmaine Jones is a Registered Dietitian and Owner of Food Jonezi. Her area of expertise includes personalized nutrition counseling and development of corporate wellness programs. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of District of Columbia. Charmaine has partnered with organizations such as DC Medicaid Programs and presented to broad audiences sharing food and nutrition recommendations to employees at Planned Parenthood, American Dental Education Association and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2019, Charmaine was invited to speak at Yale University’s Black Students Solidarity Conference to discuss the misrepresentation and stereotyping of Black foods in the field of nutrition and dietetics. This presentation was based on her article “Do I Have to Eat Like White People,” which was acknowledged and further emphasized by Huffington’s Post in the article of “White People Foods Is Creating an Unattainable Picture of Health.” Charmaine has shared her expertise in widely known wellness magazines. She also served as a Health and Wellness Committee Expert for Superfeet, Inc., in 2019. Charmaine and her colleagues created a podcast, “Misrepresentation of Cultural Foods,” to educate for diversity and inclusion of cultural foods and reduce the stereotyping and misperception of Black foods.