ABOUT
Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and one of the nation's leading experts and trainers on weight-based discrimination and body image. A Forbes.com contributor since 2018, she covers how weight bias shapes work, media, fashion, and the plus-size market, and she hosts GLP-1 Truth Serum, a podcast bringing critical questions to the injectable weight-loss boom. She is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, and The Body Positive Journal. She created the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign and delivered a TEDx talk on its origins. Tovar has received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and Project HEAL's Inspire Award, and has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, Dr. Phil and the BBC. She has co-designed and collaborated with Meta, Converse and Dove, and trained teams at Georgetown, UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Square and Waymo. She lives in San Francisco.
IT'S TIME TO END WEIGHT STIGMA AT WORK & ON CAMPUS
Weight stigma is one of the most common — and least addressed — forms of bias. Virgie helps companies fix that with research-grounded, judgment-free programming that generates the awareness, vocabulary, and practices for employees, students and staff of all sizes to thrive. Virgie has worked with · Yale · UC Berkeley · Georgetown · Meta · Dove · Converse · Seattle Transit Agency · Square · Waymo · San Francisco Department of Public Health
Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and one of the nation's leading experts and trainers on weight-based discrimination and body image. A Forbes.com contributor since 2018, she covers how weight bias shapes work, media, fashion, and the plus-size market, and she hosts GLP-1 Truth Serum, a podcast bringing critical questions to the injectable weight-loss boom. She is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, and The Body Positive Journal. She created the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign and delivered a TEDx talk on its origins. Tovar has received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and Project HEAL's Inspire Award, and has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, Dr. Phil and the BBC. She has co-designed and collaborated with Meta, Converse and Dove, and trained teams at Georgetown, UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Square and Waymo. She lives in San Francisco.
IT'S TIME TO END WEIGHT STIGMA AT WORK & ON CAMPUS
Weight stigma is one of the most common — and least addressed — forms of bias. Virgie helps companies fix that with research-grounded, judgment-free programming that generates the awareness, vocabulary, and practices for employees, students and staff of all sizes to thrive. Virgie has worked with · Yale · UC Berkeley · Georgetown · Meta · Dove · Converse · Seattle Transit Agency · Square · Waymo · San Francisco Department of Public Health
FEATURED IN
The New York Times Presents: "Weight of the World" (Hulu/FX) Virgie appears in this New York Times documentary examining the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and what they mean for our culture, our health, and our bodies.
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WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart A live conversation about GLP-1 Truth Serum, the history of weight-loss drugs, and the questions mainstream coverage isn't asking.
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Slate's ICYMI Virgie joins Slate to discuss GLP-1 marketing tactics, the targeting of plus-size creators, and whether body positivity is really over.
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