HARRIET BROWN

Body Image Blues:

Body Image Issues, Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Teens and Young Adults

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

5-7pm

St. Ambrose University Rogalski Center, Davenport, IA

Sponsored by:

The Amy Helpenstell Foundation, St. Ambrose Counseling Center, St. Ambrose Women's Studies Department, and Active Minds

This event is free and open to the public

Harriet Brown is an eclectic and curiousity-driven writer and speaker whose work on subjects ranging from fat acceptance to forgiveness appears in the New York Time Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Health, Glamour, Vogue, and many other publications.  Her radio essays can be heard on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "To the Best of Our Knowledge". A frequent contributor to the Tuesday New York Times science section, she specializes in speaking about issues that affect the lives of women and children.  Her latest book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Stuggle with Anorexia (William Morrow), recounts her family's efforts to help their oldest daughter to recover from anorexia nervosa.

Brown is assistant professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York, where she created Project BodyTalk, an audio project that collects commentaries about people's relationship to food, eating, and their bodies. This project will be one of the focuses for her talk on October 19th.

Brown is the editor of two anthologies (Feed Me! and Mr. Wrong) and several other nonfiction books, including The Good-Bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center. She co-chairs Maudsley Parents, a website of resources for families struggling with eating disorders, and is member of the Academy for Eating Disorders.

More information on Harriet and her work can be found at

www.harrietbrown.com

and

www.projectbodytalk.com