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

Molly Robbins, MA (PhD student)

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

Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW

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

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

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

Ronnie V. Lee. PsyD (He/Him)

William Hornby — William Hornby
Eating Disorder Recovery Advocate and Speaker

Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS

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

Abi Pont

Lauren Hartman, MD — Lauren Hartman, MD
Founder

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

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

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

Sharon Maxwell — Sharon Maxwell
Educator and Fat Activist

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

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