Tanya Steel

Tanya Steel is a longtime nonprofit leader and award-winning writer and editor. After her husband passed at 58 from a MAPT mutation, resulting in FTD, she co-founded Cure MAPT FTD. She was the Executive Director of Culinary Careers Program, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Epicurious. She was an Adjunct Professor at New York University, has authored three books and is writing a fourth, a brain health cookbook, for Ten Speed Press (Fall 2027) with Dr. Marissa Schafer, Associate Professor of Physiology at the Mayo Clinic. She is a Strategic Advisor for the Brain Health Initiative, and was a support group volunteer for the Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration. She is the Award Director for the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. She created a national kids healthy eating competition with First Lady Michelle Obama, an initiative held at the White House for five years, and a similar one for the Trudeau government in Canada.