Jenny Shea Rawn, MS, MPH, RD is a nationally recognized Registered Dietitian, cookbook author, recipe developer, and seafood blogger, who loves to create nourishing New England inspired dishes in her coastal Maine kitchen. Jenny is the founder of JennySheaRawn.com, which features local seafood recipes, coastal living inspiration and all things New England.

Jenny’s first cookbook, Coastal Kitchen, Nourishing Seafood Recipes for Everyday Cooking, was released in July 2023 with Globe Pequot Press and won the 2023 Readable Feast Award for excellence in single-subject writing.  Her second cookbook, New England Kids Cookbook, will be released in September 2026 and was written alongside her daughter, Lexi.

Rawn has been featured in hundreds of local and national media outlets including: the Boston Globe, Fox 25 News, the Boston Herald, National Culinary Review, Eat This, Not That!, FoodNetwork.com, The Chef’s Kitchen, Cape & the Islands Magazine, NESN, NECN, WEEI, Women’s Health, Shape, Progressive Grocer, the Cape Cod Times and many more. She has been a featured guest speaker for The Network of Executive Women, Go Red for Women Events with the American Heart Association, Harvest on the Harbor, the Women’s Health Symposium and more.

Jenny currently partners with like-minded brands to create healthy and beautiful recipes and inspirational content for featuring on brand websites, Jenny’s website and social media channels. Jenny is also a seafood ambassador for Seafood Nutrition Partnership, the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the U.S. building awareness of the health and nutritional benefits of seafood.

Rawn also has expertise serving as a health and wellness spokesperson, teaching cooking classes, providing strategic nutrition counsel and planning large and small scale key influencer events and campaigns.

Prior to starting her own business in 2014, Rawn spent almost a decade as the Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Expert at SUPERVALU where she covered the supermarket chains of SHAW’S and STAR MARKET, FARM FRESH, SHOPPERS and ACME Markets. Rawn served as the health and wellness spokesperson, with regular features and interviews with national and local media outlets. She also led consumer-facing nutrition and wellness strategy and programming, covering over 500 retail stores. Rawn worked closely with major consumer packaged goods companies to design programs that drove health and wellness product sales and inspired customers.

After SUPERVALU, Rawn spent a few years as Director and Nutrition Expert at Weber Shandwick, a global communications firm in Boston, where she managed food accounts and provided nutrition communications counsel for consumer packaged goods companies.

Jenny holds a BA in psychology from Boston University, a MS in Nutrition from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a Masters in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine. Jenny is a Registered Dietitian and completed her Dietetic Internship through Simmons College.

Rawn is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietitians in Business and Communications and the Food and Culinary Dietitians Practice Group. In 2009, Jenny was awarded the Women of Influence in the Food Industry Award by the Griffin Report of Food Marketing.

Jenny lives in Boothbay, Maine, with her husband, Adrian, her son, Lucca and her daughter, Lexi. Prior to living in Maine, the Rawns spent almost a decade on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

In her free moments, Jenny enjoys spending time outside running, hiking, kayaking, boating, cooking, eating seafood, photographing and styling food, tending to her garden and learning about all things food.

Jenny has completed 9 marathons and countless half marathons around the New England area, including the Boston Marathon. Rawn was on the crew team in high school and college, where she competed in the NCAA championships in Sacramento, California, the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Massachusetts as well as the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England.

Follow Jenny on Instagram at @JennySheaRawn.