Kenden Alfond

Kenden Alfond cur­rent­ly lives in Cam­bo­dia with her hus­band and daugh­ter, and Jew­ish Food Hero is her com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice project. When she was 12 years old, she chose to become a veg­e­tar­i­an (and now is a veg­an). After get­ting a MA in coun­sel­ing psy­chol­o­gy in 2005, she went to India as an Amer­i­can Jew­ish World Ser­vice (AJWS) vol­un­teer. Since then she has been liv­ing and work­ing around the world on human­i­tar­i­an, post-con­flict, and devel­op­ment issues with the Unit­ed Nations and sev­er­al NGOs. In 2013, she obtained a cer­tifi­cate in plant-based nutri­tion from Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty. She start­ed Jew­ish Food Hero to get health­i­er food onto Jew­ish tables around the world. When she is not work­ing on Jew­ish Food Hero, she works as a psychotherapist.