Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark is director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at Endeavor Health in Chicago, clinical assistant professor at Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, and co-director of the Culinary Medicine project, one of the first of its kind in the country. A nationally known and sought-after speaker, she is founder of multiple food justice programs and projects, including the Food is Power program in Chicago Public Schools teaching decolonized nutrition education and food justice to middle schoolers. She has also become a pioneering voice in using dance as a medicine to prevent neurodegenerative disease and to inspire instant energy and joy.
Dr. Maker-Clark has worked as a family physician for over twenty-five years providing full-spectrum family medicine, high-risk obstetrics, and integrative medicine as part of her practice. Her integrated and holistic view of health stems from many years of medical and spiritual training from thought leaders and healers around the globe. She’s worked in communities as a social activist and organizer with migrant farm workers in Ventura, CA; Indigenous people in Northeastern Brazil; fishing villagers on the East coast of India; citizen activists at Standing Rock; and thousands of patients in the inner city of Chicago.
She received her MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago, completing a family medicine residency, an obstetrics fellowship, and an integrative medicine fellowship with Dr. Andrew Weil in the years following. She holds certifications in yoga instruction, functional nutrition, and culinary medicine. She is also a professional dancer with a prolific African diasporic dance and drum company in Chicago.
