Chef/Journalist Asata Reid started the culinary-education programs of Life Chef to help fill the gap between what you should be eating and the dilemma of how to eat healthfully. Life Chef is making the world a healthier place, one plate at a time. Join Chef Asata in the delicious, life-affirming revolution where we cook with joy, dine with pleasure and celebrate life!

Asata was a staff writer at Cross Roads News and copy editor for Upscale Magazine, and her work is included in the anthology Who's Your Mama: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers with Foreword by Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint, May 2009); and she contributed to The Family Cooks by Laurie David (Hybrid Nation Inc., 2014). She was also a regular contributor to Co-Options issued by Sevananda Natural Foods Co-Op and has written for national publications including features in Essence Magazine, Upscale Magazine, Song, Odyssey Colour and Rolling Out. Asata is the former editor-in-chief of Fierce Magazine (nominated for Best New magazine by Utne Magazine 2003).

Coordinate Education Outreach for Sevananda's School of Common Health.Act as point of contact for incoming and outgoing social and traditional media with Sevananda.