Meet The Team

Amanda Archibald, RD
Founder of The Genomic Kitchen

Amanda Archibald is widely recognized as among the foremost leaders in translational genomics, connecting genomic science to everyday health. A global pioneer in genomic nutrition, she is also an author, educator, consultant, and public health advocate. She founded The Genomic Kitchen in 2017 to showcase the relationship between genes, food and health.

Amanda teaches and mentors clinicians around the world in her efforts to make nutritional genomics more widely understood and accessible. She is equally sought out in private practice using genomics to guide individuals with complex health challenges on a journey to wellness. An avid collaborator, Amanda recently co-created C-Suite, a DNA-driven holistic health and wellbeing executive program in the United Kingdom with Celynn Morin.

Her cutting-edge work in nutritional genomics has fostered institutional and corporate consulting for a variety of international innovators, including Sodexo (USA) and Hawkins Watts (New Zealand). Her work with Sodexo resulted in the successful launch of the first nutrigenomically-inspired menu to be offered to inpatients, guests, and hospital staff at Sharp Healthcare, San Diego. Amanda is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the newly formed Institute For Nutrigenomic Medicine, Australia.

Amanda is a native of the UK and currently resides in the high desert and Canyon Country of Western Colorado.

The Genomic Kitchen’s “Gene Sisters”

Gay Riley, MS, RD, CCN, FMN


With more than 30 years of experience untangling nutritional biochemistry and DNA, Gay serves as Amanda’s “clinical sister” - her “go-to” partner for unravelling complex cases. Gay is also a sounding board, advisor and expert clinician with whom she ruminates on new ideas in nutrition and medicine. Gay’s holistic approach, focusing on getting to the root cause of symptoms and determining the most realistic strategies to guide healing, serves as a gold standard for client care.

Meryl Brandwein, RD


Meryl and Amanda have been tag-teaming for more than 10 years as clinicians in functional nutrition and medicine. Co-creators of many educational webinars, they also freely share their expertise in genomics and functional nutrition to provide the very best in care for their respective clientele. Their seamless relationship allows them to “drop in” anytime on each other’s schedule to problem-solve together, ask the hard questions, and receive honest and caring answers from each other.

Ruth Baillie, MS, MA, Registered Nutritional Therapist

As an early adopter in genomics and an astute and accomplished scientist, Ruth is who Amanda turns to for answers to really hard to solve cases. With an amazing ability to detect genomic patterns in those hard to resolve cases where no one seems to have connected the dots, she is Amanda’s trusted sounding board for combining new and old therapeutics to ease clients back to health. And, as a fellow Brit, Ruth and Amanda share an amusing behind the scenes fondness for their old country.

Contributors, Advisors, Partners

Karey Spear, BS, MS, DCN Candidate

Expert in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, Karey brings health transformation, coaching, and 1:1 client mentoring to the Genomic Kitchen team. She works synergistically with Amanda, bringing the tools and talent to help individuals gently and assertively change their health, change their mindset, reset their energy, and learn to thrive

Mary Jo Fishburn, MD - in remembrance

Dr. Fishburn was a Baltimore-based physician in private practice, providing individualized practical solutions to improve quality of life. She was a powerful friend, mentor, and co-teacher with Amanda for more than a decade. Mary Jo brought extensive experience in medical practice, keen clinical insight, deep respect for the client health experience, and business savvy to her Genomic Kitchen partnership. Mary Jo passed away suddenly and rapidly from an aggressive cancer in June 2023. She is much missed

Chef Kate Waters, NT

Kate combines her culinary and nutrition expertise to help clients navigate health using food as the foundation. Combining her chef’s training at Ireland’s Ballymaloe Cookery School with nutrition studies at College of Naturopathic Medicine in London, Kate is dedicated to nutritional healing. Kate partners with Amanda on culinary and health educational initiatives including 2022’s GENE-ius cooking course.