We are excited to host special guest Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark for our Fall 2026 Kitchen Table Talk! Geeta will talk about her book Medicine for all People: Science and Ancient Wisdom for Revolutionary Healing. The speaking portion will be followed by time for book signing and networking. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

This event is free but we have a suggested donation of $25 to allow us to continue providing free events like this throughout the year! Link to Donate

Please be sure to rsvp as space is limited.

If you'd like to preorder Geeta's book you can do so and either pick it up at Booked prior to the event or pick it up at the event.

Here's the link to preorder your book: Link to Preorder Book

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506 Main St.

Evanston, IL 60202

(847) 868-8047

About Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark MD, ABOIM is a nationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Integrative Medicine. She is the Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at Endeavor Health, Clinical Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and faculty for the U of Arizona Integrative Medicine and Ayurveda Fellowship. Dr. Maker-Clark has spent two decades studying integrative medicine, nutritional science, botanical medicine, mind-body medicine, and natural childbirth in health clinics all over the world. She started the Food is Power program on the South Side of Chicago in Chicago Public Schools to empower youth with health literacy, through a curriculum that focuses on decolonized food education, food justice and sovereignty and pioneered one of the first culinary medicine programs in a medical school in the country. Dr. Maker-Clark was recognized as a national leader in food justice activism with a Castanea Fellowship from 2019-2022 and the Mesa Refuge Michael Pollan Fellowship in Food Journalism in 2021. She has received numerous honors for her leadership in health equity, food justice, and integrative medicine, and is a sought-after speaker who brings together science, storytelling, and practical wisdom to help people and communities flourish.

Dr. Maker-Clark believes in transforming the way we think about medicine and looks to ancient wisdom and modern struggles as opportunities to heal with the medicines that are all around us. As a woman of color, a community organizer, and integrative physician and thought leader in the food as medicine movement, her work aims to help communities be well-nourished—the heart of healing in our society and country. Her forthcoming book, Medicine for All People: Science and Ancient Wisdom for Revolutionary Healing, is a compelling invitation to restore the wisdom, practices, and relationships that have been marginalized by modern life yet remain essential to individual and collective healing.

About Medicine for all People

The word medicine has long been shaped by systems that equate healing with prescriptions, procedures, and profit. It often evokes fear, scarcity, and dependence. Yet across cultures and generations, medicine has also meant something else: nourishment from food and plants, nature connection, movement, community building, and practices passed down through lineages of care. Many of these ancestral medicines—once marginalized or dismissed—are now increasingly validated by research in fields such as integrative medicine, neuroscience, and public health. Dr. Maker-Clark illuminates how inequitable extractive food and healthcare systems have co-opted our awareness of our natural deep intelligence and connectedness—contributing to the disproportionate burden of chronic inflammatory disease in communities that have been historically excluded from resources and power. These conditions are not simply the result of individual choices, but of structural forces that shape access to nourishment, safety, and care.

In response, Medicine for All People guides readers back to medicines that are both ancient and urgently relevant: culturally rooted foods, gratitude and breath practices that regulate the nervous system, movement traditions—including dance—that support neuroplasticity and joy, and practices of connection that restore belonging. Integrating these powerful healthful practices creates a path for individuals and communities to move toward radical social change.

Dr. Maker-Clark prescribes these medicines to her patients, and now, in this book, offers them to readers to start their own health revolution—and to fuel a new movement toward true health, one that acknowledges that no one of us can be truly healthy unless we are all healthy. At its core, Medicine for All People is a manifesto with a crucial goal: Help us heal from the individual and collective trauma of injustice and support a transition from a culture of stress and sickness to one of healing and belonging. The book asks us to reevaluate the ecosystems we live in, to look at ourselves with new eyes. Medicine for All People is a path to a blooming and vibrant future, through the accessible and deeply rooted wisdom of our shared past.