Bake it Till You Make It: Live Cooking Demo! with Author Dayna Altman

Community Meeting Room, Main Library, 40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA, 02169

An in-person cooking demonstration and mental health program where mental health advocate Dayna Altman shares her story of struggle and healing. Leave with some tools for your mental health and your new favorite recipe.

Dayna Altman is an energetic and dynamic mental health speaker, entrepreneur and advocate. The full force and sole operator of Bake it Till You Make it LLC, Dayna harvests her passion for mental health advocacy by using food and baking to create an authentic recipe for vulnerable storytelling. Bake it Till You Make it LLC is a community based organization that uses food and baking to harvest authentic mental health conversation in the kitchen, around the table and beyond. Dayna is the author of five mental health cookbooks (self published) , the facilitator of a variety of mental health presentations and the subject of an award winning documentary, Dayna is a sought after storyteller. She has been invited to speak at national conferences, in community kitchens, on the news and most notably, at the White House in 2022. With experience working in both clinical and advocacy mental health settings, Dayna’s breadth of knowledge in the field informs her work, as does her own recovery. Today, Dayna lives with major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and is in lifelong eating disorder recovery. When she’s not testing out new recipes in her kitchen or quoting her therapists, Dayna is in pursuit of creating art as a means to explore new ways to change the world using her own story. Learn more about Dayna and Bake It Till You Make It at www.bakeittillyoumakeit.co