Adesina Ogunelese
Health Educator
Mentor at growURpotential.org since 2025
Holistic Nutritional Coach
Adesina Ogunelese is a warrior womyn, fiftyfive years a vegetarian, a certified health & nutrition coach, a black historian, bibliophile, photographer, meditator, and student of herbal medicine who identifies as two spirited. Adesina was a member of a community that spearheaded the vegetarian movement in San Diego, CA during the 1970s, with “The Prophet” international vegetarian restaurant. In her activism, Adesina participated in the first reggae promoters in San Diego, and actively participated in the evolution of the African American Cultural Center in Balboa Park, known as the Worldbeat Center back in the day, currently a well renowned space for culture and art from the Afrikan Diasporic & Indigenous Cultures.
Adesina is proud to be a future ancestor who deeply understands the power of black culture and healthy dietary choices, and she shares candidly about her fathers death by diabetic impact and heart attack at 68. Lived experiences motivate most healing journeys, and Adesina is happy to support explorations about holistic lifestyle transitions, navigating herbal medicine, and accessing education about alternative therapies to heal the body. Adesina joined this network in 2025 to support deconstruction of medical mistrust.
We are a nonprofit community counseling agency, committed to expanding access to supportive services. With compassion, collaboration, and respect we provide affordable mental health care including programs that strengthen adults, youth, families, and communities.
We believe mental health care is a right, not a privilege. By providing affordable mental health services and effective community programs we increase access and utilization of supportive services that contribute to improved adult, youth, and family functioning. We are certain this will lead to fortified communities in Los Angeles.
We are sincerely grateful to Our Board Members for their support and invaluable guidance.