ASDAH Welcomes Special Guest Speaker Susie Orbach
bestselling author, analyst and activist
Most famous for 1978’s Fat is a Feminist Issue, Susie Orbach joins us to discuss her newest book published this year, BODIES.
In the past several decades a globalized media has overwhelmed us with
images of an idealized, westernized body and conditioned us to see any
exception to that ideal as a problem. The body has become an object, a
site of production and commerce in and of itself. Instead of our bodies
making things, we now make our bodies. Susie Orbach reveals the true
dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward healing and
acceptance.
Susie Orbach is the co-founder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London
and New York. A former Guardian (UK) columnist, she was visiting
professor for ten years at the London School of Economics and is the
convener of www.any-body.org.
Conference Presenters
Sandy Andresen, Ph.D, abd in Psychology. Her dissertation and research is on Healthy Fat Identity: How an individual develops and maintains a healthy fat identity in today’s fat phobic culture.
Linda Bacon, Ph.D., is author Health at Every SizeSM: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight based on her research on the HAESSM model and is the founder of the HAESSM on-line directory.
Kathy Barron is NCTMB certified. Recently published as a contributing author of Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, Kathy is currently working on a fat-positive, HAESSM-friendly novel.
Miriam Berg is a writer and editor, a political activist, and the president of the Council on Size & Weight Discrimination. Her special areas of interest are employment discrimination, accessibility issues, and healthcare rights.
Shelley Bond, owner of Beadjoux Jewelry is an activist and celebrates transformation through her work and designs.
Deb Burgard, Ph.D. is a psychologist and one of the founders of the Health At Every SizeSM model. She has 20 years of book, article, and media publications and hosts the long-running body image website BodyPositive.com.
Charlotte Cooper, from Stratford East London is a trained psychotherapist/counsellor. She uses an integrative model and incorporates her work around fat and/or queer identities into her practice.
Fall Ferguson, J.D., M.A., is a holistic health educator and coach. Her professional practice focuses on Health At Every SizeSM, including working with individuals and groups on body image and disordered eating issues. Fall serves on ASDAH’s Public Policy Committee.
Deb Lemire, is Founder and Artistic Director of Queen Bee Productions, offering workshops, talks and performance presentations that focus on issues important to women including body and size acceptance. Current Vice President of ASDAH’s Board of Directors.
Janell Mensinger, is Director of the Clinical Research Unit. She has a PhD in Psychology with a health concentration from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her expertise is in research design and statistics maintaining her research program in the field of eating disorders, nutrition, and obesity.
Lily O’Hara is a lecturer (same as a professor in the US) in public health and health promotion at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. She teaches HAESSM to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and conducts research projects based on HAESSM principles.
Eileen Rosensteel facilitates Sassy Fat Girl Social Club as a way for fat women to be connected and find support in her local region without the focus on dieting. She is a certified massage therapist and her practice, Bodacious Bodywork, focuses on working with women of size and women with body image issues.
Joslyn P. Smith is the Senior Legislative Assistant for the American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Government Relations Office. In this role, she is responsible for federal policy efforts addressing eating disorders and obesity-related issues
Connie Sobczak is Co-Founder of The Body Positive an intervention curriculum to foster health in young people by engaging students, teachers, parents, health providers, and community leaders to make systemic changes in the environments that affect the health of youth. based on the HAESSM model. The Body Positive’s newest project is the release of the DVD “Discover Your Healthy Weight.”
Lisa Tealer is Senior Diversity Manager for Genentech, Inc. She serves as HAESSM Director on the Board of Directors for NAAFA and was instrumental in the development of the Diversity Tool Kit.
