Kathryn Arnold graduated in nutrition in 1978. Upon graduation, she worked as chief dietician at a Knoxville recovery center. In 1977 she and a friend opened Knoxville’s first vegetarian restaurant, which closed after three years. She then studied journalism in Southern California and landed a job with Working Women magazine. From that post, she went to Savvy magazine. After seven years in New York, she went to Boulder, Colorado, and was appointed food editor for Delicious magazine. In 1998 she was recruited to Yoga Journal as editor in chief. Originally the nonprofit magazine of the California Yoga Teachers Association, it was bought by John Abbott in the late ’90s and was converted to a profit-making enterprise.