Staff Biographies
Juliette G. Tahar
Juliette G. Tahar, is the founder and president of Healthy Living, Inc.
Born of French parents, Juliette’s interest in natural food evolved out of a childhood in West Africa where fresh ingredients were always abundant and available. This childhood immersion in the natural world also fostered an early understanding of the connection between the self and the environment.
Juliette’s childhood connection to the natural world evolved into a mature interest in the relationship between health, food and cooking. She studied at The International Macrobiotic Institute in Kiental, Switzerland, at the French Macrobiotic Center Cuisine et Santé, The George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation in California and The Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. In 1992 after a decade long study of various eating lifestyles that included vegetarian, vegan and macrobiotic philosophies, Juliette embarked on a natural foods cooking career.
From 1992 to 2003, she operated “Juliette’s Delicious Meals”, a natural and organic foods cooking service that provided Washington-area residents and organizations with access to natural foods through home delivery, catering and educational programs.
In 2003, Juliette decided to focus on educational services, and established Healthy Living, Inc. as a non-profit organization.
Diana Berchiolli
Diana Berchiolli has over 30 years of business management experience, including executive management, operations, project management, risk management, and business consulting. Her passion for nutrition and natural health was fostered in part by her long career in the hospitality and foodservice industry, and by her personal study and application of holistic health principles. Her experience in not-for-profit organizations spans a variety of national, local, religious and civic groups at both the volunteer and board level. Most recently she served on the Agricultural Advisory Board for Montgomery County Maryland. Ms. Berchiolli received her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University and subsequently spent three years working and traveling throughout Western Europe and the UK.
Having embraced the macrobiotic lifestyle several years ago, Diana currently attends cooking classes with Juliette Tahar and is active in the Washington, DC-area macrobiotic community. She resides in Capitol Hill.
Michael Rossoff, L. Ac.
Michael Rossoff has been involved in macrobiotic and natural healing for 37 years. After studies with Michio Kushi in the ’60s and ’70s, he directed various macrobiotic centers in the Washington, D.C. area for 20 years. In addition to teaching and counseling, he published a macrobiotic magazine, MacroMuse, for 7 years in the 1980s. Further, he has taught in many cities in America, Canada, Europe and Israel. He continues to travel for teaching and counseling in the U.S. and Italy.
He studied acupuncture in England in the 1970s with J.R. Worsley at the College of Chinese Acupuncture and has practiced continuously since 1978. He did further studies for the entire year of 1999 at the Maryland Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Michael was the academic dean and a core teacher at Atlantic University of Chinese Medicine outside of Asheville, North Carolina for three years. He maintains a private counseling and acupuncture practice and teaches. He also regularly teaches shiatsu massage (basic & advanced) at the N.C. School of Natural Healing in Asheville.
T. Michael Jankowski, PLLC
T. Michael Jankowski is the principal in the Law Office of T. Michael Jankowski PLLC, located in Alexandria, Virginia. He is licensed to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia. His practice focuses on estate planning, probate, business and non-profit law. Mike has almost twenty-five years of experience as an attorney. He previously was employed as a partner and associate by several Washington DC law firms.
Jankowski is involved non-profit and community organizations. In addition to providing legal counsel to such organizations as Healthy Living, Inc., Mike currently serves as President of the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Inc, a 501(c)(3) organization, and is General Counsel to the Alexandria Gay and Lesbian Community Association, another 501(c)(3) group. He also has volunteered for both the Whitman-Walker Clinic and the Legal Services of Northern Virginia. He lectures on estate planning issues before community groups upon request. As for business, he is a member and past president of the Arlington Business and Civic Circle.
Mike Jankowski is a 1980 magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He received his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law Center in 1983.
Marina London, Web Site Manager
Marina London is a free-lance web designer, content manager, and social media expert. She has been helping professionals harness the power of the Internet to promote their personal brand and businesses. Marina is the author of an award winning blog www.iwebu.blogspot.com which provides web secrets to help professionals boost their business and professional practice.
London is a published writer with many articles to her credit. She has presented extensively to corporations, associations and at national and international conferences.
Fran Warring, Bookkeeper
Ms. Warring has been working as bookkeeper/accountant for over 25 years. In 1995, she became self-employed, specializing in Not-for-Profit Accounting in 1997.
Fran Warring holds an Accounting Degree with a minor in Business Management from Strayer University, where she was a Member of the National Honor Society. She also holds a George Washington University Certification in Personal Property Appraisals. She is a Member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers since 2001.
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