Our Team
Nicole Cormier MS, RD, LDN
Nicole Cormier is founder and Program Director of the Delicious Living Nutrition Dietetic Internship, a clinical herbalist, registered dietitian, local food enthusiast, and author. She indulges her passion for nutrition and local foods on beautiful Cape Cod through her nutrition therapy practice, Delicious Living Nutrition, and Dietetic Internship. Her collaborations with local chefs, non-profits, schools, farmers’ markets, restaurants, and art centers include programs, dinners, workshops, retreats and catering. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts and the Beth Israel Deaconess Dietetic Internship in 2006 and completed a Masters in Clinical Herbalism from the Maryland University of Integrative Health Notre Dame.
Dianna Carpentieri MS, RD, LDN
Dianna Carpentieri, MS, RDN, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and co-founder of the Delicious Living Nutrition Dietetic Internship Program. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Randolph-Macon College and completed a combined Dietetics Program and Master of Science degree in Food and Nutrition at Framingham State University, followed by a post-graduate Dietetic Internship through Priority Care Nutrition.
Dianna has extensive clinical nutrition experience working with cardiac, oncology, and eating disorder populations. She is deeply passionate about educating and supporting individuals and their families as they navigate complex health conditions and improve their relationship with food. Through individualized nutrition counseling, Dianna emphasizes the dynamic and inseparable connection between mental health, physical health, and nutrition to support overall well-being.
Amelia Poliseno Grant RD, LDN
SOPHIA CALISI MED, RD, LDN
Sophia Calisi is a Registered Dietitian in Southeastern Massachusetts. She currently serves as the clinical dietitian in a long-term acute care hospital setting developing critical nutrition care plans for patients with a complex variety of medical conditions. She has obtained her MEd in Nutrition Education and a BS in Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics from Framingham State University. Sophia is passionate about positively impacting others nutritional habits and obtaining a healthy mindset.
Sue Bourque RD, LDN
Susan Bourque, RDN, LDN is a Registered Dietitian and Licensed Nutritionist in the state of Massachusetts and currently employed as Nutrition & Food Safety Educator for Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. Sue’s educational background includes a B.S. in Hospitality and Tourism Management, a B.S. in Human Nutrition through the University of Massachusetts, followed by completion of a dietetic internship with Sodexho Marriott Services.
Sue’s background in both foodservice and dietetics serves as a foundation to teach nutrition and food safety to various audiences throughout Barnstable County through her work as a Community Nutritionist. Sue coordinates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) for the Cape Cod region through partnership with UMass Extension’s Nutrition Education Program. SNAP-Ed programs are planned annually for adults and youth who receive or are eligible to receive SNAP benefits with the goal of helping participants make healthy food choices within limited budgets. Sue’s responsibilities include overseeing a team of contracted nutrition educators, as well as developing, organizing, teaching, and evaluating nutrition programs throughout Barnstable County using research-based information.
Cape Cod Cooperative Extension is Barnstable County's education department and is part of a national educational system developed to convey research-based knowledge from Land Grant Universities to the general public. The Barnstable County Nutrition Education Program acts as a direct link to current nutrition guidelines for the community through workshops, formal presentations, cooking demonstrations, and printed educational materials.
Kim Concra MS, LDN
Kimberly Concra, MS, LDN is Nutrition and Food Safety Specialist with Cape Cod Coopertive Extension. Having worked in Public Health with both Extension and WIC, she pursued her M.S. In Human Nutrition to learn Functional Medicine Nutrition at University of Bridgeport to become a CNS, Certified Nutrition Specialist. She continues to work in that capacity part-time in private practice with a local collaborative, bridging both of her interests. Kimberly is a beekeeper, gardener and lives with her husband and pet kitty. A mother of three grown children and grandmother of two rambunctious boys, she enjoys the outdoors and combing the beach for sea glass.
Amelia has her B.S. in dietetics from the University of Rhode Island. She completed her dietetic internship with Delicious Living Nutrition with a focus on agriculture and sustainability. She has worked at Hasbro Children’s Hospital since 2018. Amelia enjoys yoga, being outdoors, going for walks, reading, as well as listening to podcasts and music.
Helen Grimm
Helen Grimm is an artist, herbalist and registered nurse. After completing her undergraduate degrees in painting and art history from Cornell University in 1990 she went on to study botanical medicine with Adam Seller at the Pacific School of Herbal Medicine in CA. She then pursued her budding fascination with plant medicine by studying with Michael Moore at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. Inspired to help others on their healing journeys and excited to understand the world through a scientific lense, she went on to complete her bachelor’s degree in science in Nursing (BSN) from U Mass Amherst (1999), marking the beginning of her long nursing career. She has worked in numerous areas of nursing including Medical/Surgical/Telemetry and the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Sherman Oaks Hospital, Cardiothoracic Step-down Unit at UCLA Medical Center, and the Float Pool at USC Hospital. During this time in CA, she maintained a practice as a clinical herbalist and taught courses in botanical medicine to RNs in traditional health care settings.
In 2003 Helen returned to her Cape Cod roots, working at Falmouth Hospital and then with the Cape and Islands VNA. After the birth of her twins in 2004 she worked for several years at the Cape End Manor/Seashore Point as a ‘floor nurse’ and as an administrator in charge of staff development and Infection Control. In 2010 she became the school nurse at Truro Central School. Here, her love of plant medicine synched with her nursing practice, and she oversaw the development and implementation of a comprehensive school garden nutrition and education program, supporting connections between local food production and school health and the development of the Farm to School Program. After leaving her role as school nurse in 2022 she continued on as the School Garden Coordinator until November 2025. She is now a full time artist, also spending time in her apothecary and wild crafting, releasing so much of what she learned with her brain, listening to plants and embracing what she is learning with her heart.