Vanessa is an Integrative health professional and artist with a multidisciplinary approach. Dancer, Registered dietitian and Wellness mentor, she likes to motivate people for change.

Member of the Brazilian College of Lifestyle Medicine, she’s a PhD student in Food Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and professor of Nutrition Science at the post-graduation course in preventive and Lifestyle medicine.

Passionate about nature and life, she’s a Planetary Health Campus ambassador at PHA- Harvard and mentor Jr at the Brazilian program coordinated by the Planetary Health Study Group at IEA-USP. She’s member of the Southeast Brazilian Planetary Health Club and Integrates the Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) network at PHA.

Executive secretariat at the transdisciplinary mentoring research network MRN as well as co-coordinator at the Arts, culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems action team both at ACOPPHE (Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment).