What we’re about
The Capital Region Vegan Network (CRVN) empowers our community to adopt and maintain a vegan lifestyle through outreach, education, support, and advocacy. We envision a community that embraces healthy and sustainable vegan living on behalf of all beings and our shared earth. Thank for being here.
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CRVN Cooking Together Series-Ravioli Making
Albany, NY, https://maps.app.goo.gl/PuNSuqNTGoLWM87o8, NY, USJoin the Capital Region Vegan Network for our final community plant-based vegan cooking series of the year. We will focus this session on ravioli making! In both full-group and small-group settings, we will explore how the food is prepared and later enjoy it in a community setting. In small groups, we will have hands-on practice preparing different flavors and combinations of raviolis! If you love to cook, meet other like-minded people, and enjoy hands-on cooking opportunities, this is the event for you.
The address will be sent to those who register, but the event will take place at Dr. T.'s home in Albany.
Please consider bringing canned goods or nonperishable items to support the Free CRVN food stand in Niskayuna!
Members - $20
Learn about our membership
Public $25
About the teachers:
Dr. Thomson (or Dr. T, as she is known) has been a happily converted plant-based vegan since 2010, when she came across Dr. Joel Furhman’s book, Eat to Live. It was a life-changing experience, and she never looked back. Dr. T earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, where she studied the intersection of ecological and human health. She has worked for both public & private industry, enforcing regulations that protect human health and the environment. In her spare time, Dr. T offers health and wellness classes and serves as a nutritional coach in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. She earned her certificate in plant-based nutrition from the eCornell program, founded by Dr. Colin Campbell, and became a Food For Life Instructor through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine program.
Claire Henderson (she/her) has been volunteering for the Capital Region Vegan Network since she adopted a vegan lifestyle 17 years ago. She was raised a vegetarian and went vegan after the first VegFest by CRVN (held in Saratoga). There she watched a video of a “spent” dairy cow going off to slaughter and learned the cruelty of the dairy industry. Since then, she has volunteered in various capacities in the organization to bring programming and vegan education to the Capital region. She is the mother of two children, Avi (9.5 years) and Anika (6.5 years), and raises them vegan with her husband, Punit. Claire works as a research scientist and enjoys research and development projects at work and at home. She works on the CRVN merchandise using screen printing, laser, and paper techniques.1 attendee
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