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Alice Wimpfheimer, true inspiration for international collaboration of dietitians and nutritionists around the world.
Alice Wimpfheimer, true inspiration for international collaboration of dietitians and nutritionists around the world.
Alice Wimpfheimer MS, RDN, CDN is a true inspiration for dietitians and nutritionists around the world. At age 101, Alice continues to encourage global collaboration and networking – and serves as a daily role model for all of us.
Alice’s early passion for travel and exploration shaped the international scope of her view of nutrition. As a young woman, she went on a self-directed world tour traveling from one country to another aboard cargo ships. She thrived on the vast experience of diversity of food and people at her embarkments in countries such as Borneo, India, Japan, Philippines, and more. Imagine this sense of adventure in an era before cell phones, traveler’s checks, credit cards, and the Internet! In her lifetime, she has visited more countries and cities than the vast majority of people today even with today’s airline travel options.
Alice's funding
Alice's funding
Her generous funding of awards and grants continues through the Wimpfheimer-Guggenheim Fund for International Exchange in Nutrition, Dietetics, and Management of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation.
In 2022, some of Alice's beneficiaries of these grants started the Alice Wimpfheimer International Fund (AWIN), with the aim of carrying forward Alice's vision with a hands-on focus: to support nutrition training, monitoring, and research for improvement of education, professional skills, and collaboration in global humanitarian nutrition. Alice has become one of our major donors along with others who share her vision of “feet on the ground.” The international travel grants particularly for students to experience humanitarian nutrition have provided priceless career pathways. Alice’s gentle yet firm push for connecting everyone to each other is the true gift of her unwavering mantra: collaborate rather than duplicate. We are all eternally grateful to our “Alice” for her visible presence to keep the synergy going for all of us!
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