Fatphobia in Public Health and Dietetics: What Dietitians Need to Know
Speakers
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Marquisele Mercedes (she/they)Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes (she/they) is a writer, culture worker, and public scholar from the Bronx. They hold a PhD in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences from Brown University. Drawing critically from her public health training, Mikey works to articulate how race/ism, antifatness, antiblackness, and ableism shape health care, research, education, and promotion. Currently, she is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Francisco.
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Monica Kriete (she/her)Monica Kriete, MPH is a writer, speaker, and consultant from Harrisburg, PA dedicated to challenging weight stigma in healthcare and public health. Under the name Fatty MPH, Monica works with clinicians, researchers, public health practitioners, and students to research and address weight stigma in health policy and clinical practice. She holds a BA in Biochemistry from Kenyon College and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
