Her Story
About Elizabeth
I grew up on a small farm in upstate New York outside of Rochester, where I developed a deep connection to food, agriculture, and where our food comes from. I started at community college, then transferred to Cornell where I specialized in nutritional sciences and became passionate about preventative health and food security. After my dietetic internship rotating through Mount Sinai, Alyssa Rumsey's intuitive eating practice, and media rotations, I became a registered dietitian and took my first job in the South Bronx working with low-income, geriatric populations in a long-term care setting. COVID really highlighted the healthcare inequities I was seeing, and I became driven to change outcomes for my patients who I'd grown to care deeply about. I left to join the startup Cerebral, where I launched their nutrition arm focused on nutritional psychiatry - the fascinating field of how nutrition affects mental health. I then decided to pursue my Master of Public Health at Harvard. Deloitte recruited me at a career fair dinner - I'll admit I was initially drawn in by the food - and after interning there and at the CDC in summer 2023, I chose to return to Deloitte full-time in September 2024. Now I work across the payer, provider, and life sciences spaces in healthcare consulting, while pursuing passion projects through the firm's food systems think tank, focusing on the barriers people face in accessing care and the root causes of health inequities like food insecurity, housing instability, and poverty.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Elizabeth
01What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
My best piece of advice for myself is to not tie myself to outcomes - to show up, give a good effort, but detach from the results. I'm naturally a high achiever, high cortisol, go-go-go type person, but I've learned mostly from my fiance that I need to do the opposite of that. When you're in a high-intensity job or career, you have to time manage and prioritize what is most important to you, and sometimes that means making compromises - waking up earlier, or choosing sleep over exercise some weeks. There's always a give and pull, always a compromise we have to make. For me, work quality is a non-negotiable, so I prioritize that more, but I've had to come to the realization that I need to be okay with the choices I'm making and not beat myself up over them. I'm also deeply driven by empathy and believing I can be part of change - when I was working with patients in the South Bronx, I would relate to them, want the best outcomes for them, and that drove me to try to change the way outcomes were heading. I'm passionate about addressing the root causes of health inequities and the barriers people face in accessing care.
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