User:Valerie Latona

Valerie Latona is founder and CEO of Valerie Latona Health Media, a company specializing in the dissemination of healthy living information through magazines, websites, and social media, as well as through public relations efforts, product packaging, and books. Latona is founder of a healthy living website for women, valerielatona.com—with health, fitness, nutrition, healthy beauty, and motivational advice.

Latona also served as an advisor to the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health, a four-year appointment, which ended in 2015.

Latona is one of the leading healthy living writers/editors in the country, having won more than 90 editorial awards for excellence in journalism for her work. She was most recently Shape’s Vice President/Editor-in-Chief from October 2005 until November 2010. She has also served as an editor for Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, American Health for Women, and Healthy Kids, a publication created in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Her work has also appeared in New You, Mother Earth Living, Yoga Journal, Woman’s Day, Weight Watchers, Vegetarian Times, and American Baby. She has blogged for Huffington Post, MariaShriver.com, and Preen.me.

Latona has a Masters in Journalism from New York University and a Bachelor of Science degree in History and Political Science from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Latona resides in New Jersey with her family, including a 4-year-old son, 8-year-old daughter, and 11-year-old son, as well as one dog and one pet mouse—and is passionate about all aspects of healthy living. Personally, she loves walking, biking, swimming, yoga—and competing in races including sprint-distance triathlons.