Bonnie McDaniel

Editor-in-Chief

Bonnie is an author, host of ION Network's Metro Magazine with Bonnie McDaniel and Editor in Chief of Recipes for Good Living Magazine.

In previous roles she was a former radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, editor of Family Digest Magazine and an award winning restaurateur winning the prestigious Wine Spectator Award for having one of the best food and wine menus in the world.

Allison McDaniel

Associate Editor, Editor for Growing Good

Allison is a graduate of Savannah College of Art & Design with a BFA in Advertising Design. She is a free-lance graphic artist and photographer and is the co-host of an upcoming television project and Its Thyme TV. She has several years experience working with Bonnie catering and creating beautiful weddings.

Karen Schachter

Contributing Editor, Growing Good

Karen Schachter is a licensed clinical social worker, certified health counselor, and founder of “Healthy Bodies, Happy Minds” and “Dishing With Your Daughter™” which offer a variety of programs and services to help girls and women experience nourishment, good health and deliciousness in their relationship to food, eating and their bodies.

Mocha Lee

Contributing Editor, Be Well

Mochalee is one of the country’s top fitness professionals. She is a former fitness TV host for BET’s Heart & Soul, is a contributor for Oxygen Women’s Fitness and Heart & Soul magazines. She has graced the covers and has been featured in numerous magazines including Embrace, Max Muscle and Ebony.

Andrea Rock

Contributing Editor, Thrive and Good Media

Andrea has a Master of Arts in Media Arts and has worked extensively conducting workshops and speaking on the media’s influence on children.

More recently Andrea became a certified Grief Recovery facilitator from the Grief Recovery Institute and graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity.

Nayada Cowherd

Contributing Editor, Homework

Nayada has a BA in Mass Media and is a film and television writer/producer. She accepts the challenge of raising her two sons as a divorced parent and utilizes the techniques she employs as a certified parent trainer. She currently lives in Atlanta.

Dr. Renita Gabriel

Contributing Editor, MindWorks

Renita C. Gabriel (Perkins) is a licensed clinical psychologist. Her professional/personal interests include forensic psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, mentoring and spiritual development. Dr. Gabriel recently acquired her board certification in Christian Counseling.

Website: http://www.breakthroughspsycservices.com

Shelley Tidmore

Healthy Lifestyle Contributor

A vegetarian and holistic life style enthusiast since age 17, Shelley Tidmore has consulted hundreds on lifestyle, health, and fitness. She has worked as a personal trainer, fitness instructor, and nutritional consultant through holistic whole food eating.

Shelley is a marketing professional with emphasis in health care, health, fitness, and naturopathy. Her work in these areas are represented by her day to day life.

Through the social and behavioral sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham her studies focused on psychology and sociology with concentration on biofeedback, meditation, and self-regulation. She has practiced yoga since age 15, meditates daily, and believes in achieving external beauty through the mind body spirit approach.

Shelley focuses nutrition on raw food, vegetarian, organic consumption and believes this nutritional lifestyle is the optimal approach to prevention and healing of chronic illnesses.

Darian Davis

Contributing Editor, Cooking School

I’m kid Chef Darians Davis, I’m in the 7^th grade and love school and cooking. I cook easy healthy meals for children using lots of fruits and vegetables in a fun way. I use no stove or oven. Instead I rely on the george foreman grill, toaster, waffle iron, microwave etc. My motto is “I keep it healthy and safe for the kids!” Website: www.chefdariandavis.com.

Jeannine Marzella

Contributing Editor

Jeannine Marzella, PhDc, is an internationally renowned life transformation coach. Her clients include psychotherapists, life coaches, professional athletes, celebrities and anyone truly seeking to change their lives, to free themselves from self-limiting beliefs. She has been a featured guest on radio and television programs around the country and is a sought after speaker. Jeannine developed the Rapid Solution Focused Method (RSFM) a powerful method that has permanent positive effects in people’s lives. Her unique approach and training make her a specialist at finding out where people are, and guiding them to where they want to be. She is available for corporate consulting, private appointments as well as public speaking and specializes in Stress Release, Counseling and Communication. Jeannine travels worldwide however, her home base is in the Washington DC area.

Website: www.alimitlesslife.com

Patrice Jones

Contributing Editor

The owner of Fru-Fit Affordable Fitness and a certified personal trainer, Patrice is currently studying for NASM CPT certification. "Exercise More...Eat Less....and Continue to Press Forward...even when Motivation of Self seems Minimal."

Ivy Ford DeShield

Contributing Editor

Ivy serves as the Director of a nonprofit 501c3 organization, Upward Bound at The George Washington University Medical Center, providing supplemental education services to low-income, potential first-generation college students in the District of Columbia. She also enjoys being the "word guru" for her and her husband's media and marketing firm, DeShield Enterprises, LLC. Most recently, she has been spending considerable time working on her children's book and locating 'hot-spot' consignment boutiques.

Website: www.deshieldenterprises.com

Roger Mack

Contributing Editor

Roger Mack is one of the Metropolitan DC areas top certified personal trainers. He is a dynamic energetic professional athlete with over 10 years of proven success. Mack’s career reached its peak when he qualified for the the 2004 Olympic Games Trials in the 110m high hurdles.

For the last 10 years, Roger has committed himself to helping individuals lose weight, trim and tone. He has successfully combined his passion and career by offering personal training and conditioning services at every fitness level. As an elite athlete, he offers training services that are based on practical, professional, and academic experience. He is certified with NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine). Mack’s specialties are strength training, weight loss, sports achievement, speed development and nutrition.

Kimberly Powell

Photography

Kimberly Powell is a freelance photographer who specializes in portrait and live performance photography. In her work she enjoys creating images that provide a fresh and memorable perspective, open a window into the heart and soul of her subjects, and that celebrate artists from all walks of life as they create, perform, and inspire.

Beverli Alford

Associate Photographer

Beverli has been a professional photographer for over 20 years in fashion design and graphic artistry. She is a member of Fashion Group International, NAAP and Professional Photographers of America.