Be Real - Body Confident Schools [Prevention Series #1]

2023-12-01

This episode is the first of 5 in our Prevention of Eating Disorders series, and is brought to you by Children's Mercy Eating Disorders Center, Kansas City. Denise Hamburger, JD Denise Hamburger Denise Hamburger, JD, is the founder and executive director of BE REAL USA, a nonprofit that envisions a world where each and every student can grow up with a healthy relationship to food and their body. In 2017, Denise created a p...

This episode is the first of 5 in our Prevention of Eating Disorders series, and is brought to you by Children's Mercy Eating Disorders Center, Kansas City.

Denise Hamburger, JD

Denise Hamburger

Denise Hamburger, JD, is the founder and executive director of BE REAL USA, a nonprofit that envisions a world where each and every student can grow up with a healthy relationship to food and their body. In 2017, Denise created a professional development workshop for teachers called Body Confident Schools and has delivered this training to over 5000 educators around the world. Among over 100 conference, keynote, and school presentations, Denise has presented at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to the National Association of School Psychologists; at the Center for Disease Control to their Healthy Schools Division; at the United States Department of Agriculture to their Food and Nutrition Services Group; at the Society for Public Health Education’s Advocacy Summit; and to Amazon’s Body Positive Peers Employee Resource Group.

Denise co-developed and co-piloted Be Real’s BodyKind high school, body image curriculum with a team of international body image academics, psychologists and teachers. Denise is an Anti-bias, Antiracist (ABAR) certified curriculum writer. BodyKind is the first body image curriculum developed for all students. It includes lived body image experiences of people of different races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, physical and mental abilities, and body sizes.

She has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was an environmental attorney in her first career. She co-wrote the legal treatise Pollution in the United Kingdom. She has spent the last 25 years involved in education nonprofits, including Chicago’s After School Matters.

Instagram: @berealusa Website: www.berealusa.org

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