About Knowing Nutrition

The Knowing Nutrition Hub was created as a nutrition learning space for health care professions and the public. We focus on the learning experience — not just nutrition facts. And, we create clinical tools to help providers everywhere apply evidenced-based nutrition practice.

About Lisa Richardson, MS, RD, LDN

Founder Lisa Richardson has spent more than two decades at the intersection of science and service, supporting the health and well being of children and their families.

Lisa’s science education began as early as the first grade when she learned about nutritional deficiencies (specifically, beriberi). She was amazed by the idea that you could get sick from something you didn't eat! Her love for nutrition continued to her fifth grade science fair project, which earned an award and involved a stomach, small intestine, and large intestine made of plastic tubing and a bucket! She followed her interest in nutrition all the way to Case Western Reserve University where she earned her Master of Science in Nutrition with a focus in Maternal and Child Health.

Lisa has a diverse background in clinical nutrition, public health, and training. Her clinical experience includes providing medical nutritional therapy for high risk women and children and proudly working for the WIC Program. She spent several years in public health including, helping to develop North Carolina’s highly successful birth defects prevention initiative, Get Folic. Her desire to help children (as well as training and implementation) led her to work as an Improvement Advisor and Internal Evaluator for the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.

Most recently, Lisa has worked as a specialty pediatric dietitian in one of North Carolina’s premiere medical facilities. She is also the developer of Formula Sense a Learning Center dedicated to helping parents and health care providers break through infant formula confusion.

When she’s not helping parents to make informed decisions about their nutrition and medical care, you might find Lisa riding a tandem bicycle with her husband, playing with her dog Fig, or singing with Voices.