About Speaker

Chef Nephi Craig, BHT, ACRPS, has 24 years culinary experience in America and around the world in London, Germany, Brazil and Japan. He is an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and is half Navajo. Chef Craig is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association, an organization/network that is dedicated to the research, refinement, and development of Native American Cuisine. Chef Nephi Craig provides training, workshops and lecture sessions on Native American Cuisine for health to restaurants, universities, treatment centers, behavioral health agencies, and entities from across America and abroad. During Chef Craig’s nine-year tenure as Executive Chef of the Sunrise Park Resort Hotel, Craig and his White Mountain Apache culinary team achieved many national and international benchmarks in establishing a culture of Indigenous Foods across North America. Executive Chef Nephi Craig is currently the Nutritional Recovery Program Coordinator & Executive Chef at the Rainbow Treatment Center and Café Gozhóó on the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona.