Denee Bex is currently a Registered Dietitian employed with Tséhootsooí Medical Center and an advocate for healthy traditional Navajo diets and home-grown foods in Native communities. She was born and raised on the Navajo Reservation. Her mother’s family is from Tselaní-Cottonwood and she is Naneesht’azhí Ta’chii’nii (Zuni Division of Red Running into the Water Clan) and born for Ma’ii deeshgiizhnii (Coyote Pass Clan). She received her formal education from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics in 2011 and from New Mexico State University with a Master of Public Health with a focus on community health education in 2017. Her concentration is in diabetes nutrition, but also has experience as a WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutritionist and nutrition blogger. Denee believes that her community must grow from within and that being healthy is not a one-size fits all. For many years, nutrition was viewed with a Western lens, but nutrition education in the Navajo community must include the customs, norms, values, and beliefs of the Navajo people for it to be impactful. She also writes gardening articles for a local Native newspaper and works with community organizations to encourage families to start growing their own food. Denee is proud that her formal knowledge is useful to the people she loves. Outside of nutrition and gardening, she enjoys learning how to weave Navajo rugs, hiking, cooking, and watching Star Trek. Denee lives in Fort Defiance, Arizona with her husband and 2 rez dogs turned couch-loungers, Gigi and Pepper.