Weight Stigma Awareness Week

Date: September 23 - 25, 2025

Weight Stigma Awareness Week’s mission is to eliminate anti-fat bias, which is rooted in racism, to end the resulting stigma, shame, trauma and discrimination around body shape and size.

Featured Speakers

Virgie Tovar, MA — Virgie Tovar, MA
Journalist at Forbes, author, activist and leading expert on weight-based discrimination

Naomi Busch, MD, MSCP — Naomi Busch, MD, MSCP
Founder of Seattle Menopause Medicine, providing care within a Health at Every Size (HAES)® and trauma informed model

William Hornby — William Hornby
Eating Disorder Recovery Advocate and Speaker

Sharon Maxwell — Sharon Maxwell
Educator and Fat Activist

Anna Nokes — Anna Nokes
Therapist, Speaker, & Fat Liberation Community Organizer

Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD, FAED, CEDS — Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD, FAED, CEDS
Co-Founder, CEO, Chief Medical Officer, Within Heallth

Rebecka Peebles, MD, FAAP, DABOM — Rebecka Peebles, MD, FAAP, DABOM
Vice President of Adolescent Medicine

Katie Piel, MA, LMFT — Katie Piel, MA, LMFT
Clinical Lead, Within Health

Abi Pont

Molly Robins, MA (PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology) — Molly Robins, MA (PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology)
Body Liberation Researcher, Clinician and Advocate at Galen Hope

Esther Tambe, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES — Esther Tambe, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES
Registered Dietitian. Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist

Lesley Williams, MD — Lesley Williams, MD
Family Medicine Physician, Mayo Clinic

Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS

Lauren Hartman, MD — Lauren Hartman, MD
Founder

Ronnie V. Lee. PsyD (He/Him)

Ilya Parker- PTA, CMES — Ilya Parker- PTA, CMES
Owner of Decolonizing Fitness, LLC

Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW

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