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Board & Advisors
Dr. Geo Cesare
Geo has a doctorate degree in physical therapy from Emory University. He founded an integrative medicine clinic in Del Mar California where he worked with a team of practitioners. With a passion for natural and energy medicine, Geo studied several eastern modalities including ayurvedic medicine. He is the author of Radiant Balance and spent several years teaching at the Depak Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA.
Dr. Geo Cesare
Dr. Valencia Porter, MD, MPH
Dr. Valencia Porter is a leader in Integrative, Preventive, and Environmental Medicine, combining ancient wisdom traditions such as Ayurvedic Medicine with modern science. For the last decade, she has worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, providing integrative medical consultations and teaching health professionals and the community how to achieve total mind, body, spirit health.
She passionately advocates for real solutions to the global problems of climate change and pollution, knowing that personal and planetary health are intricately linked. Dr. Porter shares her extensive knowledge about the environment and its role in our health and wellbeing through her recent book, “Resilient Health: How to Thrive in Our Toxic World,” a handbook for the toxic age based on her research, clinical experience guiding patients through the Chopra Center’s signature detox program, and personal healing journey.
Dr. Valencia Porter is Double-Board Certified in General Preventive Medicine and Integrative Medicine, with a true integrative practice that combines nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, mind-body medicine, energy medicine, environmental medicine, Ayurveda, functional medicine and peak performance methods.
Dr. Valencia Porter, MD, MPH
Mica Carlile
Mica is a creative epiphany with a combined experience in illustration, graphic arts and apps design. Designer by day, ceramic artist by night, she is deeply inspired by the beauty of our gentle mother earth. Mica brings a wide variety of print and web design experience to her work. Prior to joining WHC, she was part of the creative force at Wellaroo creating a wide variety of graphics, apps designs and illustrations.
Mica Carlile
Michael Weaver
Michael is a technical iconoclast, a senior level architect with a strong business background in both the technical and energy sectors. He was most recently the co-founder and CEO of Bionavitas, a company whose technology allowed a revolutionary way to create algae biomass for the alternative energy market. In 1998, Mr. Weaver co-founded and was Chairman and CEO of Applied Discovery, Inc. (ADI) a Washington based company that invented on-line legal electronic discovery. Mr. Weaver designed and patented Applied Discovery’s system to process, index, and provide on-line tools for searching and managing email, files, and other electronic corporate data at the rate of three million pages a day, changing the face of modern day legal discovery. ADI’s services were key to the discovery of some of the most notorious emails and files in the Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing litigations as well as the investment bank investigations and other high profile corporate cases. They also produced over 10 million pages in documents for the government review of the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger. In 2003, Mr. Weaver was winner of the Ernst & Young Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award and negotiated the sale of Applied Discovery to Lexis/Nexis.
Michael Weaver
Corey Colwell Lipson
Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist and board-certified clinical art therapist specializing in supporting women and couples during the transition to parenthood from pre-conception through the post-partum period. She is one of the first U.S.-based, licensed practitioners to be certified in Prenatal Bonding (BA)™, an extraordinary European-founded method showing remarkable promise for preventing pregnancy related depression, and anxiety as well as preterm birth, birth trauma and attachment/bonding disorders.
In 2007, Corey founded Green Halloween, The Green Year™, and an entire movement reaching and inspiring over one million households to exchange healthier options for toxic Halloween candy and holiday related products such as costumes. She is co-author of Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations and Traditions for the Whole Family and is a frequent speaker at environmental health conferences.
Corey Colwell Lipson
Dr. Eric Grasser, M.D.
Dr. Grasser is one of the world’s foremost experts in the integration of Functional Medicine and Ayurveda. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Dartmouth Medical School. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Grasser is also an Active Teacher In Family Medicine as recognized by the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has been Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 2003, and through his extensive and continuing practice in obstetrics at St. Vincent, he has been blessed to attend the birth of hundreds of babies. He is currently working towards becoming Board Certified in Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Grasser is certified to practice Ayurveda Medicine by the Ayurvedic Institute where he studied under the tutelage of world-renowned Ayurveda physician Dr. Vasant Lad. In addition to his full 2-year course of study at the Institute, Dr. Grasser completed advanced clinical studies under Dr Lad’s Gurukula Studies Program in Pune, India, and additional clinical hours at AVP Ayurveda Hospital in Coimbatore, India. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Assciation since 2013. Dr. Grasser has studied yoga extensively since 2001 in the tradition of BKS Iyengar. He incorporates the principles and teachings of the sister sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into his daily life and practice of medicine. Dr. Grasser has also completed courses of study in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is currently enrolled in a two year course of study with the Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics, for which he serves on the Board of Advisors. He believes that Functional Medicine is a modern approach to healing which embodies many of the principles of Ayurveda and other ancient healing traditions.
Dr. Grasser is an active staff member in the Department of Family Medicine at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has also practiced obstetrics since 2001. He works with patients of all ages and health conditions as their primary care physician.
Dr. Eric Grasser, M.D.
Anastassia Butler
Anastasia is a non-profit and ‘for- benefit’ (B corp) attorney who is passionate about redefining traditional businesses and reimagining business functions to create a more balanced equity on the planet.
Working out of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Anastassia assists cross-sectoral clients developing forward thinking social enterprise strategies. She proudly serves as board member of Social Enterprise Alliance – Los Angeles, B-Local Los Angeles, LA Compost and the River Garden Coalition.
As a member of Los Angeles County Social Enterprise Advisory Group, she drafted the white paper advocating for the use of benefit corporations and B-Corporations in the bid process, which resulted in Los Angeles County approving a 15% bid discount for all Los Angeles based benefit corporations and certified B-Corporations.
As a beekeeper herself, she is also very active in the food and agriculture space locally. Most recently, she has championed the use of AB551 to support urban agriculture development in Los Angeles.
Anastasia graduated from Northeastern Law School (JD) and Florida State University (BA).
Anastasia Butler
Lawren Pulse
Lawren has a combined medical and business background with both a degree in Ayurvedic medicine and a career implementing worldwide organizational development and change management programs in large scaling companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Amazon.com. In addition to the World Health Collective, Lawren founded two other companies: Procast, sold to Amazon.com in 1999 and Wellaroo, currently building THE HEALTH APP, a single app for all things health based on the largest integrated data base on natural health information ever assembled in one place.
As an activist for health for over 40 years, Lawren has worked for a large number of activist organizations doing everything from door-to-door fundraising and petitioning in the streets to spearheading community campaigns. Lawren was a primary force behind a campaign to remove styrofoam use in Santa Cruz county and has been a force behind dozens of community toolkits and programs for creating change.
Lawren is fascinated about how to reach people to inspire change in thinking, diet and lifestyle. She is the author of a wide variety of educational materials from corporate to consumer including management training, cooking programs and doctor education. She has authored a large selection of bite-sized information on symptom patterns, holistic strategies and factors in disease as well as several cookbooks and white papers on the future of medicine.
Lawren Pulse
Dr. Geo Cesare
Geo has a doctorate degree in physical therapy from Emory University. He founded an integrative medicine clinic in Del Mar California where he worked with a team of practitioners. With a passion for natural and energy medicine, Geo studied several eastern modalities including ayurvedic medicine. He is the author of Radiant Balance and spent several years teaching at the Depak Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA.
Dr. Geo Cesare
Dr. Valencia Porter MD
Dr. Valencia Porter is a leader in Integrative, Preventive, and Environmental Medicine, combining ancient wisdom traditions such as Ayurvedic Medicine with modern science. For the last decade, she has worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, providing integrative medical consultations and teaching health professionals and the community how to achieve total mind, body, spirit health.
She passionately advocates for real solutions to the global problems of climate change and pollution, knowing that personal and planetary health are intricately linked. Dr. Porter shares her extensive knowledge about the environment and its role in our health and wellbeing through her recent book, “Resilient Health: How to Thrive in Our Toxic World,” a handbook for the toxic age based on her research, clinical experience guiding patients through the Chopra Center’s signature detox program, and personal healing journey.
Dr. Valencia Porter is Double-Board Certified in General Preventive Medicine and Integrative Medicine, with a true integrative practice that combines nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, mind-body medicine, energy medicine, environmental medicine, Ayurveda, functional medicine and peak performance methods.
Dr. Valencia Porter, M.D.
Mica Carlile
Mica is a creative epiphany with a combined experience in illustration, graphic arts and apps design. Designer by day, ceramic artist by night, she is deeply inspired by the beauty of our gentle mother earth. Mica brings a wide variety of print and web design experience to her work. Prior to joining WHC, she was part of the creative force at Wellaroo creating a wide variety of graphics, apps designs and illustrations.
Mica Carlile
Michael Weaver
Michael is a technical iconoclast, a senior level architect with a strong business background in both the technical and energy sectors. He was most recently the co-founder and CEO of Bionavitas, a company whose technology allowed a revolutionary way to create algae biomass for the alternative energy market. In 1998, Mr. Weaver co-founded and was Chairman and CEO of Applied Discovery, Inc. (ADI) a Washington based company that invented on-line legal electronic discovery. Mr. Weaver designed and patented Applied Discovery’s system to process, index, and provide on-line tools for searching and managing email, files, and other electronic corporate data at the rate of three million pages a day, changing the face of modern day legal discovery. ADI’s services were key to the discovery of some of the most notorious emails and files in the Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing litigations as well as the investment bank investigations and other high profile corporate cases. They also produced over 10 million pages in documents for the government review of the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger. In 2003, Mr. Weaver was winner of the Ernst & Young Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award and negotiated the sale of Applied Discovery to Lexis/Nexis.
Michael Weaver
Corey Colwell Lipson
Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist and board-certified clinical art therapist specializing in supporting women and couples during the transition to parenthood from pre-conception through the post-partum period. She is one of the first U.S.-based, licensed practitioners to be certified in Prenatal Bonding (BA)™, an extraordinary European-founded method showing remarkable promise for preventing pregnancy related depression, and anxiety as well as preterm birth, birth trauma and attachment/bonding disorders.
In 2007, Corey founded Green Halloween, The Green Year™, and an entire movement reaching and inspiring over one million households to exchange healthier options for toxic Halloween candy and holiday related products such as costumes. She is co-author of Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations and Traditions for the Whole Family and is a frequent speaker at environmental health conferences.
Corey Colwell Lipson
Eric Grasser, M.D.
Dr. Grasser is one of the world’s foremost experts in the integration of Functional Medicine and Ayurveda. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Dartmouth Medical School. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Grasser is also an Active Teacher In Family Medicine as recognized by the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has been Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 2003, and through his extensive and continuing practice in obstetrics at St. Vincent, he has been blessed to attend the birth of hundreds of babies. He is currently working towards becoming Board Certified in Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Grasser is certified to practice Ayurveda Medicine by the Ayurvedic Institute where he studied under the tutelage of world-renowned Ayurveda physician Dr. Vasant Lad. In addition to his full 2-year course of study at the Institute, Dr. Grasser completed advanced clinical studies under Dr Lad’s Gurukula Studies Program in Pune, India, and additional clinical hours at AVP Ayurveda Hospital in Coimbatore, India. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Assciation since 2013. Dr. Grasser has studied yoga extensively since 2001 in the tradition of BKS Iyengar. He incorporates the principles and teachings of the sister sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into his daily life and practice of medicine. Dr. Grasser has also completed courses of study in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is currently enrolled in a two year course of study with the Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics, for which he serves on the Board of Advisors. He believes that Functional Medicine is a modern approach to healing which embodies many of the principles of Ayurveda and other ancient healing traditions.
Dr. Grasser is an active staff member in the Department of Family Medicine at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has also practiced obstetrics since 2001. He works with patients of all ages and health conditions as their primary care physician.
Dr. Eric Grasser, M.D.
Anastasia Butler
Anastasia is a non-profit and ‘for- benefit’ (B corp) attorney who is passionate about redefining traditional businesses and reimagining business functions to create a more balanced equity on the planet.
Working out of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Anastassia assists cross-sectoral clients developing forward thinking social enterprise strategies. She proudly serves as board member of Social Enterprise Alliance – Los Angeles, B-Local Los Angeles, LA Compost and the River Garden Coalition.
As a member of Los Angeles County Social Enterprise Advisory Group, she drafted the white paper advocating for the use of benefit corporations and B-Corporations in the bid process, which resulted in Los Angeles County approving a 15% bid discount for all Los Angeles based benefit corporations and certified B-Corporations.
As a beekeeper herself, she is also very active in the food and agriculture space locally. Most recently, she has championed the use of AB551 to support urban agriculture development in Los Angeles.
Anastasia graduated from Northeastern Law School (JD) and Florida State University (BA).
Anastasia Butler
Lawren Pulse
Lawren has a combined medical and business background with both a degree in Ayurvedic medicine and a career implementing worldwide organizational development and change management programs in large scaling companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Amazon.com. In addition to the World Health Collective, Lawren founded two other companies: Procast, sold to Amazon.com in 1999 and Wellaroo, currently building THE HEALTH APP, a single app for all things health based on the largest integrated data base on natural health information ever assembled in one place.
As an activist for health for over 40 years, Lawren has worked for a large number of activist organizations doing everything from door-to-door fundraising and petitioning in the streets to spearheading community campaigns. Lawren was a primary force behind a campaign to remove styrofoam use in Santa Cruz county and has been a force behind dozens of community toolkits and programs for creating change.
Lawren is fascinated about how to reach people to inspire change in thinking, diet and lifestyle. She is the author of a wide variety of educational materials from corporate to consumer including management training, cooking programs and doctor education. She has authored a large selection of bite-sized information on symptom patterns, holistic strategies and factors in disease as well as several cookbooks and white papers on the future of medicine.
