Sherene changed her career in 2010 to focus on wellness and nutrition to help others through food. Prior to her career change, she worked at Hewlett-Packard as a Global Procurement Manager. She moved on to attend New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts Chef’s Training Program. She worked as a Plant-Based Chef, cooking for private clients recovering from surgery and chronic diseases, working at vegetable focused restaurants, and seasonally, as a Culinary Nutritionist for New York City’s Produce and Nutrition Education program. Her current role, as the Nutrition Director for L.A. Kitchen, was featured in British Vogue's “What on Earth is Wellness” video series. At L.A. Kitchen, she developed the nutrition curriculum for the Empower program and a pilot program on Culinary Nutrition for Keck School of Medicine of USC. In addition to serving as the Sponsorship Chair for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' VN DPG, she is the lead for L.A. Kitchen on the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, which was launched by The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Department of Nutrition. She is a proud graduate of USC and CSULA.
