Bio: Mary Lawrence, a trustee for AVS, is executive chef and owner of Well on Wheels, Connecticut’s premier vegan personal chef service. She also runs Ahimsa Health & Harmony, a vegan wellness center. Mary’s culinary creations are on the blog, The Traveling Vegan Chef wellonwheels.blogspot.com. Her two recent cookbooks are Easy Peasy Vegan Eats (2014) and Eat Vegan with Me (2017). Mary earned a certificate in plant-based nutrition from Dr. T. Colin Campbell Foundation at eCornell University. She studied culinary arts at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City.

Sample Talks: Vegan Resolutions: Get Healthy in the Kitchen; Healthy Cooking in a Hurry; Stocking Your Vegan Pantry; Planting a Chef’s Kitchen Garden; Cooking Vegan for Nonvegan Friends