Mindy Kurzer is a professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University Of Minnesota, where she also directs the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute. Since 2016, Mindy has also chaired the planning committee for the Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition. Mindy received her Ph. D. in nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984 and received postdoctoral training at the National Nutrition Institute in Rome and Odense University, Denmark (as a NATO postdoctoral fellow) and the University of California, San Francisco (in Reproductive Endocrinology).