Marion Treece - Director of Operations

Marion Treece is the Administrative Director for Plant Based Nutrition Support Group. “I began as a volunteer with the group, felt welcome from the first day, and love being involved with a passionate group dedicated to a mission of helping others achieve optimal health.” Marion has lived in southeast Michigan since 2007. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, enjoys lifelong learning, cooking, advocating for plant-based nutrition, and has been a volunteer and/or board member of nonprofit groups for over 30 years. She also has a background in the computer field and special education.

Marion has had an interest in healthy food and cooking most of her adult life, and began following a mostly vegetarian diet about 10 years ago. Five years ago, she changed to a vegan diet, and then to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. This decision was made after taking a nutrition course, researching plant-based physicians and topics, understanding more about food- and lifestyle-related disease prevention and reversal, and seeing more and more family and friends developing chronic disease and being prescribed multiple medications. Marion also has a strong interest in social behavior, diet, and factors that influence food choices.

Gardening and being outdoors are simple pleasures that Marion enjoys, as well as taking walks with her husband and their dogs, reading and collecting plant-based nutrition books, and creating and adapting recipes. She and her husband have three grown children and love getting together with them as often as they can. She looks forward to helping PBNSG continue to grow and spreading plant-based knowledge to help others improve their health. “I envision a future in our society where active centenarians are commonplace from having a healthy lifestyle that includes whole, plant-based foods.”