Nancy
Nancy Ellis-Ordway, PhD, LCSW, (she/her) is a psychotherapist with more than 35 years’ experience, specializing in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She has a private practice in Jefferson City, MO. In addition to a master of social work degree from Washington University and a PhD in health education and promotion from the University of Missouri, she completed the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. She has written chapters for five books and authored Thrive At Any Weight: Eating To Nourish Body, Soul, and Self Esteem (2019). She is the coeditor of Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice (2021) and the co-author of “Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action” in The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (2022).
Tigress
Tigress Osborn, MFA, (she/her) is the executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). Founded in 1969 in the United States, NAAFA is the world’s oldest documented fat rights advocacy organization. As leader of the most diverse board in NAAFA’s history, Tigress has championed an intersectional approach to fighting anti-fatness through education, advocacy, and support. Her work with NAAFA has been featured in USA Today, Huffington Post, and Newsweek, and heard on BBC AntiSocial and ABC News. Tigress also hosts and produces the NAAFA Webinar Series, which features a wide variety of activists, scholars, and artists from fat community. Tigress founded Full Figure Entertainment in 2008 in Oakland, CA, and co-founded the PHX Fat Force in Arizona in 2019. Tigress is a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) consultant and educator whose clients have ranged from major tech companies to small nonprofits. She is a two-time women’s college graduate with a BA in Black studies from Smith College and an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. Learn more about NAAFA at naafa.org.
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