When a Harvard-trained lawyer leans into her lifelong passion for cooking, magic happens.

“I get the opportunity to connect with people and make an impact on their daily lives through an intimate component, which is food and eating.”

When a Harvard-trained lawyer leans into her lifelong passion for cooking, magic happens. Having described her Big Law days as “not fun,” Nisha Vora quit her suffocating job and backpacked around the world for six months, only to enter the nonprofit law arena and still feel dissatisfied professionally.

Things pivoted for Vora in 2016, as this was the year she went vegan and launched her popular plant-based food blog, Rainbow Plant Life. Her decision to embark on a plant-based lifestyle stemmed from an eye-opening three-night binge session involving 10 factory farming documentaries documentaries.

“I was really angry that it wasn’t common knowledge, that you had to seek it out. I was just like, ‘I have no interest in being part of this system,'” she exclusively tells Green Matters via phone. “I worked in social justice before I worked in food. And I was kind of always trying to help folks who were oppressed. I was like, ‘Why would I not want to do the same for animals who are completely innocent beings, who can’t speak for themselves? … I started to learn about how factory farming contributes to climate change… I felt like the information was purposely hidden.”

Since then, Vora left the law completely, she’s amassed over 1.29 million YouTube subscribers, and she released her debut cookbook, The Vegan Instant Pot, in 2019.  Now her 600-page cookbook, Big Vegan Flavor, hit shelves in September 2024.