UCLA grad, Mary-Margaret Stratton, aka anand sahaja, is a producer, UX architect and award-winning Creative Director (for the likes of DreamWorks, Tommy Bahamas and Mattel Toys). She is the author of a self-help manual Stop Picking on Me and the SPOM Workbook, Kiss Addiction Goodbye, pagan primer the Good Wiccan, two tour guides on Mid-Mod architecture, How Modern Was My Valley and Mondo Vegas, and editor of a Raw Food compendium called Dominant Health. Anand was Certified as a Raw Food Nutritionist (CFRN) at the Body Mind Institute. She has been a vegetarian for over twenty years and primarily raw for over ten years. In 2011, she was ordained as an Essene Minister. The Essenes are noted for their commitment to peace and a live food diet.