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Virgie offers lectures and workshops internationally in the areas of body image, fat discrimination, fat studies and its intersections with gender, sexuality, and race. She offers audiences dynamic programming that highlights intersectionality and feminist methodology. She combines her rigorous academic training in the social sciences and critical theory with accessible and relevant engagement of new media, pop culture, fashion and identity.

Speaking engagements have included:

• Yale
• Purdue
• Stanford
• University of Denver 
• Brown 
• Boise State University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
• University of California at Berkeley
• Georgetown University  
• University of California at Davis
• New Museum - New York
• University of California at Riverside
• Hollins University 
• University of Washington 
• Earlham University 
• Sacramento State University 
• Humboldt State University 
• Napa Valley College 
• Abundia Women's Retreat 
• California College of the Arts
• Sonoma State University  

Media coverage has included:

• New York Times
• Tech Insider
• Business Insider
• Huffington Post Live
• Al Jazeera
• Yahoo! Front Page
• Yahoo! Health
• Colorlines Magazine
• Asterisk Magazine
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Beutiful Magazine