Our vision is a kinder and more just food system that promotes health, longevity, and sustainability while protecting people and the planet and all its inhabitants.
Our work is rooted in a nutritional ecology paradigm that considers the intersection of health, environment, society and economy while embracing the joy of food—and it directs everything we do.
We believe in harnessing the power of food, science, and technology to create healthier populations through projects that inform and inspire and incite meaningful changes in our world.
We live in an increasingly online world with decreasing attention spans, and just-in-time video content and on-demand streaming are major information sources for many. Food Matters Media aims to develop life-changing programming steeped in science and stories to fuel the food revolution, one bite at a time. We are seeking collaborators and sponsors, production to distribution, to join us in our journey that will delight, entertain, and inform today's eaters. Our goal is to uncover the mystery of why what we eat matters, farm to fork and far beyond, and inspire viewers to take action in order to create health for ourselves, our communities, and our planet.
The coronavirus pandemic led to spikes in food insecurity around the world, and Food Matters Media stepped up to meet the moment, raising almost $50k for Feeding America by increasing awareness and offering free cookbooks featuring plant-based recipes to help individuals eat better during lockdown--and today!
Stay tuned for our next hunger relief project.
P.K.'s motto is "Life is Short. Make it Funny" and her favorite t-shirt reads, accurately, "Feminism Is My Second Favorite F-word." Professionally speaking, Dr. Newby brings together all of her passions—food and health, science and art—in her second company, Food Matters Media. (Her first is a nonprofit theater company that recently completed its 25th season in Boston, Massachusetts.) She is an author and science communicator and advisor, as well as a recovering academic having served on the faculties at Tufts, Boston University, and Harvard. She is an expert on diet and disease prevention and holds a doctorate of science (ScD) in nutritional epidemiology from Harvard . A science geek, she also earned two master’s degrees from Columbia (MPH & MS) focused on how people make food choices and their impacts on our environment. She possesses deep knowledge, dark humor, and a multidisciplinary lens when it comes to all the food things, bringing evidence to today’s critical food conversations—and fights anti-science in all the ways she can. P.K.'s interest in nutrition stems from a life-long love affair with food, cooking, and gardening, and she dished up plant-based, globally-inspired cuisine rooted n her Healthy Hedonism™ philosophy on ABC's reality series The Taste, hosted by the late Anthony Bourdain, where she was the last woman standing with Nigella Lawson. More about Dr. Newby are here.
Click below to access Dr. P.K. Newby's press kit, which includes more information and headshots.