Director of Health and Wellness

Jill is focused on leading our Health and Wellness platform that supports the wellbeing of our families and employees. Our Health and Wellness platform’s goal is to extend the personalized support to include custom services that elevate the health and wellbeing of all Pennington Partners stakeholders, toward living their best lives.

Jill is a health and wellness expert with twelve years of experience as a health advisor and program consultant to successful families, businesses, nonprofits, and government clients. Previously, Jill directed and advised on public health policy, research, and education initiatives for the Veteran’s Administration, DC Department of Behavioral Health, the City of New York, Oxfam America, City Harvest and a range of health start-ups, government agencies, and businesses.

As a state licensed, board certified nutritionist, Jill has deep experience in ‘food as medicine’ and in developing customized approaches for a wide range of health needs. She understands the ups and downs of a healing journey, and is passionate about helping people live their most fulfilling life.  

Jill earned a Master of Science in Nutrition from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, is a board Certified Nutrition Specialist, and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). She completed advanced training in nutrition for mental health, functional medicine, nutritional genomics and biochemistry, medical herbalism, mindfulness meditation and suicide prevention. She is co-author of Better Broths & Healing Tonics, a food as medicine-based educational cookbook, and over twenty public health research publications. In her free time, Jill can be found in a yoga class, juicing fresh vegetables from her garden, or experimenting with new recipes in kitchen with her husband.