Building Healthy Communities Masterclass
Zoom Link
Monday
November 2, 2026
5pm Pacific / 6pm Arizona & Mountain / 7pm Central / 8pm Eastern
From Virtual Connection to Local Community
What if the next Healthy World community could be in your neighborhood?
Join us for a very special Masterclass featuring three exceptional women who are creating meaningful, healthy communities right where they live: Emily Perryman of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Building Healthy Communities, Sally Lipsky of Plant-Based Pittsburgh, and Carolyn Strickland of VegOut Montgomery.
Come learn from these inspiring community builders about what it really takes to bring people together around healthy, plant-based living, friendship, education, and support.
Meet Our Community-Building Champions
Em Perryman, MS, RDN
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine | Building Healthy Communities
Em is a Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Education Coordinator with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Through PCRM's Building Healthy Communities initiative, she helps support a growing global network of grassroots leaders who are bringing people together to promote healthy plant-based living, connection, education, and positive change. BHC groups are encouraged to create the kinds of gatherings that make healthy living social, joyful, and sustainable.
Sally Lipsky
Founder, Plant-Based Pittsburgh
Sally has been building community around plant-based health since founding Plant-Based Pittsburgh in 2014. What began as a passion for helping people discover the power of whole-food, plant-based eating has grown into a vibrant all-volunteer nonprofit offering meetings, cooking classes, potlucks, educational programs, recipes, outreach, and ongoing support. Sally believes that connection with like-minded people is an important part of successfully adopting and sustaining a plant-based lifestyle.
Carolyn Strickland
Founder, VegOut Montgomery
Carolyn founded VegOut Montgomery in 2013 to create an opportunity for people in her community to come together around healthy plant-based food and fellowship. Today, VegOut continues to bring people together through monthly gatherings and plant-based events. Carolyn is also a licensed clinical social worker, YMCA fitness instructor, Certified Health and Wellness Coach, and PCRM Food for Life Instructor.
And This Is Where YOU Come In
Healthy World has always believed that community is part of the recipe for lasting change.
We began as Healthy World Sedona, (a PlantPure Pod now known as PCRM's Building Healthy Communities), gathering local people around delicious food, meaningful education, friendship, and the shared desire to live healthier lives. Over time, our little local community grew into the international Healthy World Vitality Plan community we know and love today.
And yet, something beautiful happened along the way:
Healthy World Sedona never stopped thriving.
Our local gatherings continue to make a positive difference in the lives of the people who attend. They create friendships. They provide encouragement. They make healthy living feel less like something we have to do alone and more like something we get to do together.
Now we want to inspire that same magic to take root in more communities.
Could YOU Be a Community Builder?
During this special Masterclass, you'll hear real-world stories from women who have rolled up their sleeves, opened their doors, gathered people together, and created communities of health.
You'll discover that you don't have to be an expert.
You don't need a perfect plan.
You simply need a heart for people, a passion for healthy living, and a willingness to bring people together.
If there's already a Building Healthy Communities group in your area, perhaps this Masterclass will inspire you to reach out, attend an event, lend a hand, or become more involved.
And if there isn't one?
Perhaps you are the person who can start it.
Come be inspired. Come learn. Come dream a little bigger about what is possible in your own corner of the world.
Because healthy communities don't just happen.
They happen when someone cares enough to bring people together.
