Tampa Bay Veg Fest is Bringing Back the Ask a Vegan Booth!
It’ll be in Zone C next to the Free Food Samples.
Our experts have plenty of experience to share with non-vegans and vegans alike.
- Different experts throughout the day!
- They will answer questions and give information about the plant-based lifestyle
- Tips for getting started
- An exchange of experience
| Speaker | TIme |
|---|---|
| Dr. Nadia Tenouri | 9:30 a.m - 1:30 p.m. |
| Ellen Jaffe Jones | 12:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m. |
| Timaree Hagenburger, RDN | 1:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m. |
Nadia Tenouri, PhD
9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Ask a Vegan Expert
Dr. Nadia Tenouri has been an active member of the Tampa vegan community since 2007. She has an educational background in Biology (BSc) and Environmental Management (PhD), and is a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor (in addition to real estate, teaching at USF, and more). Dr. Tenouri lived abroad in New Zealand for 3 years before returning back home to Tampa, and can comment on her experiences there as well. She is very active across various disciplines and has a broad range of knowledge for Ask-A-Vegan, from environmental and nutritional sciences to fitness to philosophy.
Ellen Jaffe Jones
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Ask a Vegan Expert
Ellen Jaffe Jones is a versatile, inspirational keynote speaker and 6-time health, fitness, and cookbook author. She has placed in an unheard of number, vegan or not…337 5K or longer races for her age group since 2006—powered “just” by plants. At the 2022 and 2023 US National Senior Games, she was the only W70-74 athlete to run all 7 track events, earning silver in the 4×100 and bronze in the 800. She also won gold in the 4×100 in 2019 and 2023 and was NSG’s April 2020 “Athlete of the Month,” the first vegan featured.
Ellen has eaten a plant-based diet for most of 45 years, avoiding the breast cancer that claimed her mother, aunt, and sisters. A two-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter, she spent 18 years in TV news before becoming a personal trainer, running coach, and corporate speaker. She’s reversed Graves’ disease and psoriatic arthritis and often hears, “I want to be you when I grow up.”
Her books include Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, Kitchen Divided, Paleo Vegan, Vegan Fitness for Mortals, Vegan Sex and Vegan for One.
Ellen’s keynote, Finding Your Start Line: 5 Hacks to Improve Longevity, helps audiences set attainable goals and make fast, lasting lifestyle changes. She’s inspired weight loss up to 120 pounds through her cooking classes for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
A popular speaker at vegfests since 2010, Ellen has also worked as a Smith Barney financial consultant specializing in socially responsible investing, a media consultant for nonprofits and agencies, and a top-selling Florida realtor. She’s finished 2 marathons, 13 half marathons, and has often swept all 6 Florida state track events in her age group.
Great Vegan Athletes of the Year: 2019, 2020, 2022. Featured in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Bradenton Herald, Longboat Observer, Plant Based News and much more.
Visit vegcoach.com or vegcoach1@gmail.com or all social media.
Timaree Hagenburger, RDN
1:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Ask a Vegan Expert
Timaree Hagenburger, (a.k.a. The Nutrition Professor), is a registered and licensed dietitian nutritionist (RDN), trained exercise physiologist with a master’s degree in public health with over 20 years of experience as a nutrition professor. She’s a Senior Public Health Nutritionist for the State of Florida, speaker, media personality and author, who also works with private clients, and in corporate wellness, specializes in plant-based nutrition, manages her resource-rich website (https://www.