Get Healthy Harlem

Sisters Stephanie Pope Caffey (head yoga instructor) and Jennifer Pope (operations manager) grew up in Harlem and opened Bikram Yoga East Harlem to introduce the Harlem community to Bikram yoga. In this article, they talk about how the studio is involved in the Harlem community.

Mary Alice Lee and Maddalena Polletta work for the NYC Playground Program at the Trust for Public Land (TPL). Maddalena works as the coordinator of the NYC's Children's Gardening Program at TPL and is aware of children's interest in gardening and the natural world.  Since open spaces and community gardens are important to TPL, they include a lot of "green" elements in the playgrounds they build for schools in New York City. Read more below!

Vivian W. Kurutz, wellness director of the Harlem Center for Healthy Living (HCHL), talks about how HCHL aims to help Harlem residents be healthier in all parts of their lives.

Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE has been a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition for the past thirty years. She is also a diabetes educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. She talks about how meat is processed in the United States and what it means to eat organic food.