Elisa Spun­gen Bild­ner is a for­mer lawyer, CEO of a food com­pa­ny news­pa­per, editor/​reporter (Star Ledger, Newark, NJ) and jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor (Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty and New York Uni­ver­si­ty). Spun­gen Bild­ner is also a pro­fes­sion­al­ly trained chef (School of Nat­ur­al Cook­ery, Boul­der, CO) and yoga instruc­tor. She grad­u­at­ed from Yale Col­lege, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Law School, and also has an MS in Nutrition.