Presenter · Health Optimization Cruise

Bryan Strickland, MD and Carolyn May Strickland

Food for Life Instructor

Carolyn May Strickland

LLC, LICSW, CHWC

Plant-based cooking and coaching, taught in the community.

Carolyn May Strickland is a Food for Life Instructor with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). She is also a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Certified Health and Wellbeing Coach, YMCA certified fitness instructor, graduate of Cornell Center for Nutrition Studies, and graduate of Rouxbe and Forks Over Knives plant-based cooking school. She is a member of the Move Montgomery Health and Wellness Task Force and board president of EATSouth urban teaching farm.

Bryan and Carolyn, who live in Montgomery, Alabama, have a YouTube channel called Stricklands & Friends: A Seasonal WFPB Cookbook. You can also see Carolyn on the show So Many Cooks in the Kitchen on YouTube, Facebook, and The PlantBased Network. She was featured in the December 2022 edition of Womens World magazine and you will find some of her original recipes in Glen Merzers book Food is Climate.

Bryan and Carolyn started a monthly plant-based potluck, VegOut Montgomery, in 2013 and a monthly cooking and nutrition class, Meatless Monday Montgomery, at the Montgomery Whole Foods, running from 2018 to 2022. Meatless Monday Montgomery is now available on Facebook Live on the last Monday every month and as a local meet-up.

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