DANI LINAVI
Dani started practicing nutrition to impress the coolest girl in their 9th grade chemistry class.In a futile effort to connect with her, they watched Forks over Knives and started their first diet: plant-based. Convinced their failed romance was because they weren't ripped enough, they swung to keto and endured months of chronic constipation. With still no visible 6-pack abs, they began fasting. After five days of zero calories, rock bottom was binging an extra large pepperoni pizza then bending over a Publix toilet jabbing their uvula with a toothbrush until vomiting. Upon seeing the veins burst from their waist and falling in love with their partner, they decided to actually study the thing they'd been doing to themselves.At Florida State University, their obsession with diet metabolized into something useful. Dani discovered Intuitive Eating, got radicalized by childhood nutrition, and graduated helping kids and their parents sidestep the exact spiral they clawed out of.They've since become a Registered Dietitian (RD), helped hundreds of moms through feeding challenges, and are now supporting dietetic interns toward the same RD credential.These days Dani is fully Vegan, fully recovered, and fully enjoying pizza as they snuggle with their girlfriend and two cats over a co-op game. Together, they also host guests in their home on airbnb.Off the clock, they volunteer their time organizing Cubes of Truth with Anonymous for the Voiceless, protesting with Animal Equality, throwing events with TALLY VEGAN, and writing VEGANWORLD.NOW.Turns out the same instinct that once nearly broke them is now the thing driving everything worth doing.
