About Me

Ayanna A. Campbell, MS, RDN, LDN

Performance & Sports Dietitian · Contest Prep Nutrition

Memphis, TN · Willing to Relocate · 901.859.7216 · aacampbell913@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (MS, RDN, LDN) and competitive NPC Figure athlete pursuing an IFBB Pro card, with 9+ years across clinical nutrition, cardiac rehabilitation, research, and enterprise food-service systems. Coaches athletes and physique competitors through periodized nutrition: macro cycling across growth and cut phases, contest prep, and reverse dieting. Brings Columbia research training in body composition, sleep, and inflammation, two peer-reviewed publications, and a record of building macro-based menus and nutrition systems at St. Jude. Seeking independent and contract roles in performance and contest prep nutrition.

Performance & Sports Nutrition Experience

Founder & Performance Nutrition Consultant — IndigoRx · Memphis, TN & Virtual · 2024–Present

• Coach athletic-minded clients to fuel, train, and transcend through individualized nutrition and performance programming, offered as Clarity Sessions, Nutrition Deep Dives, and Full Reset VIP Days.

• Built client systems end to end: digital intake, session facilitator guides, and online program delivery.

• Led a wellness workshop for Memphis Housing Authority staff (nutrition education, smoothie demo, gentle yoga); teach community step-aerobics classes.

Nutrition Consultant — Nourish, Inc. · Virtual telehealth · 2024-2025

Delivered individualized MNT across sports and performance nutrition, gastrointestinal disorders, weight management, and cardiovascular health.

• Ran comprehensive assessments, evidence-based care plans, and progress monitoring for a private caseload with HIPAA-compliant documentation.

Competitive Athlete — NPC Figure Division · 2026- Present

• Overall winner, NPC Memphis May 2026; 1st place in Class C, May 2026, Peach City Classic. Pursuing an IFBB Pro card. 

• Self-manage full-cycle nutrition: macro periodization across growth and cut phases, low-FODMAP GI protocol, fasted-cardio fueling, electrolyte strategy, and reverse dieting.

Clinical, Research & Systems Experience

Registered Dietitian / Nutrition Analyst — St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · Food & Nutrition Services, Memphis, TN · Sept 2024–Present

• Designed The Well Bowl, a macro-based food station mapping protein, carbohydrate, and fat to client goals (body recomposition, muscle support, cardiac health), with a per-serving macro workbook, micronutrient matrix, and nutrition adequacy calculator.

• Wrote the St. Jude Run Club hydration guide and partnered on the Mastering Macronutrients education program.

• Serve as primary Computrition administrator: recipe scaling, allergen coding, nutrient analysis, and cost tracking across the Pastry Shop, Clinical Deli Center, and room service.

• Lead a nutrition standards reform with a review tracker for ~1,068 recipes and a clinical nutrition scoring rubric; authored Recipe SOP 2.0, a cross-functional framework for developing and launching new recipes.

• Built an in-house Computrition training curriculum with competency quizzes; host dietetic interns.

Outpatient Dietitian — Pritikin Cardiac Rehabilitation Center · Baptist-DeSoto Hospital / Morrison Healthcare, Southaven, MS · Sept 2021–Mar 2024

• Delivered 1:1 MNT using motivational interviewing, the transtheoretical model, and SMART goals to set nutrition and physical-activity priorities.

• Worked alongside exercise physiologists and nurses in multidisciplinary cardiovascular rehab.

• Led group nutrition education and taught a rotating 13-week cooking school on quick, affordable home meals.

Registered Dietitian, Long-Term Care — Healthcare Services Group · Memphis, TN · Mar 2024–Sept 2024

• Directed resident nutrition care and completed MDS, quarterly, and significant-change assessments with the interdisciplinary team.

Research Coordinator — New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center · New York, NY · Jul 2016–Aug 2019

• Coordinated a three-year randomized crossover trial on sleep, body composition, and inflammation: screening, consent, anthropometrics, and lab processing.

• Managed 80% of data entry and preliminary analysis; co-authored two peer-reviewed papers.

Data Collector, Wellness in the Schools Evaluation — Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy · New York, NY · Feb 2016–Jul 2016

• Evaluated school lunch across 14 NYC schools; documented a 40% increase in fruit and vegetable intake (p<0.001).

Additional Experience

• Key Leader, Lululemon Athletica · Memphis, TN · Jun 2020–Apr 2021 — Trained educators on technical athletic product education; created the Opstober operations training series.

• Patient Advocate, Baptist-DeSoto Hospital · Southaven, MS · Jul 2021–Sept 2021 — Explained therapeutic diets and raised patient satisfaction through daily rounding.

Education

• Dietetic Internship — University of Tennessee at Martin, 2019–2020

• MS, Human Nutrition — Columbia University, Institute of Human Nutrition, 2016

• BS, Child Development and Medicine, Health & Society — Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, 2013

Certifications & Awards

• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN); Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN)

• PCOS Registered Dietitian — PCOS Nutrition Center (2023)

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nutrition — Continuing Education (2025)

• ServSafe Food Protection Manager

• Bronze Medalist, Culinary Competition — Association for Healthcare Food Services Conference (2025)

• In progress: CSSD Pathway 

Publications

• St-Onge MP, Campbell A, Zuraikat F, et al. Impact of change in bedtime variability on body composition and inflammation. Int J Obes (Lond). 2020;44(8):1803–1806.

• St-Onge MP, Campbell A, Aggarwal B, et al. Mild sleep restriction increases 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure in premenopausal women. Am Heart J. 2020;223:12–22.

• Koch P, Trent R, Wolf R. Wellness in the Schools Evaluation: Final Report. Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Teachers College, Columbia University; 2018.