Kaki Okumura

Kaki Okumura is a Japanese wellness writer and illustrator. Growing up in the USA, she struggled to find a way to approach her health without falling into narratives of extremism or obsession, and instead turned to her Japanese background to better understand ways we can take care of ourselves to live longer, happier, and more fulfilled lives. Kaki's writing on the platform Medium garners hundreds of thousands of views a month, and she has been published in Bon Appetit, Heated x Mark Bittman, the Beet, Yes! magazine, S&P magazine, Elemental, Forge, and Katie Couric's email newsletter Wake Up Call. She is top writer on Medium in the categories of cooking, food, culture, health, and psychology.