Marisa ZeppieriMarisa Zeppieri is a health and food journalist, speaker on autoimmune disease, former Mrs. New York, and the founder of LupusChick.com, a nonprofit for people with lupus and other autoimmune conditions. She writes and speaks about thriving despite cronic illness and is the weekly series host for The Lupus Foundation of New England's online lupus program. For her advocacy within the autoimmune community, she has been featured in Healthline, U.S. News, Glamour, Eating Well, Ladies Home Journal, and WebMD, among others, and her work is highlighted in Lady Gaga's Channel Kindness anthology. Zeppieri lives in Rochester, New York. Read More Read Less