Meet April Cray-Rhodes . . .
April has been volunteering at CAPPED for 7 years.  April is a Certified Nutrition Advisor, with a focus on simplistic, creative food, local organic farmers, health food stores/co-ops and farmers markets.  She is an advocate for diversity.  April's father was a food enthusiast and adverturist.  She grew up "food focused", and learned about survival skills/cooking on the family camping trips in New England from the ocean to ravines.  April has a private studio in Alamogord for non-clinical nutrition sessions and community seminars.  She holds fun, innovative and creative food workshops at CAPPED as well at in other places.  April has a daugher with Type 1 Diabetes (since age five).  April feels that being the Mom of a child with Insulin Dependent Diabetes is a complex and interesting advantage.  Her daugher is now 25 and works for Whole Foods in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Her oldest daughter owns her own Nutrition counseling business in Costa Mesa, California and is a body builder.  Interest in food and nutrition is definitely a family affair.

April is also a Certified Yoga Instructor, teaching private sessions for beginners, people that are ready to open-breathe and move after physical therapy, emotional distress, trauma, anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol recovery and women's passages and life changes.  She will be holding Yoga workshops at Capped and other spaces.

Apart and separate from her plethora of creative food innovations, she is an Extension Nutrition Educator with New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension, teaching basic nutrition in Otero County.  You may read articles that April has written on her blog, www.mbsw.wordpress.com