Nicolette Richer

Nicolette Richer is a serial entrepreneur and a certified orthomolecular health educator who works through her collection of organic plant-based whole food restaurants The Green Moustache, health consulting companies Richer Health and non-profit society Sea to Sky Thrivers. Her work includes teaching customers and clients how to prevent and reverse chronic degenerative disease and working with Indigenous communities, youth and physicians to facilitate the remembering of plant medicines and food as medicine. In her former life as a policy and program developer, Richer enjoyed rolling out programs in the green building and energy sector on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources, BC Hydro, World Wildlife Fund, Greater Vancouver Regional District and other corporate agencies. Richer knows that returning to organic plant-strong unrefined whole foods can not only reduce chronic illness epidemic rates that plague industrialized communities, but can also reduce the effects of climate change. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma in Sustainable Community Development from Simon Fraser University (2004) and holds a Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication from Royal Roads University (2009). As a doctoral student at Royal Roads, Richer is conducting a critical discourse analysis in cancer and chronic degenerative disease research beyond randomized controlled trials