Virgie Tovar

April 27

Keynote: Prioritizing Human Rights Over Health in the Conversation About Fat Bias

Join us as we welcome Virgie Tovar. Author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity. Her work covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight in 2013 and founder of the podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, among many other great contributions to body justice and fat joy.  https://www.virgietovar.com/

Sponsored by: The Center for Health and Wellbeing, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Gender Sexuality and Women Studies, Office of the Provost, Food Systems Program.

Questions? Email Annie Valentine [email protected]